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Showing 1 to 20 of 1261 for “"Apartheid"”.
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Sonic Apartheid: ecoracism, apartheid geographics and noise pollution in Cape Town's Blikkiesdorp
In Sonic Apartheid: Ecoracism, Apartheid Geographies, and Noise Pollution in Cape Town's Blikkiesdorp, Alexandra Downing Watkins begins a project of mapping geographies of dispossession and abandonment in Blikkiesdorp (Afrikaans for "Tin Can Town"), a Temporary Relocation Area on the margins of …
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Freedom of expression under apartheid
Over the past decades, transitions from repressive rule to democracy have increased all over the world, aiming at establishing disclosure and accountability for the crimes perpetrated. One way of assessing the “solidity” of these new democracies is to look at their provisions on freedom of …
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Transformative infrastructures: retrofitting the apartheid city
… city and simultaneously a segregated apartheid city. The modernist preoccupation with separation is demonstrated to have dovetailed with apartheid policy to produce a functionally, economically and racially segregated urban landscape, with infrastructural projects used to carve up …
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Relationships between local communities and protected areas in KwaZulu-Natal: during the apartheid to the post- apartheid era
… on tracking the achievements made from the apartheid to the post-apartheid periods. The spatial analysis of these relationships is determined in places such as UKhahlamba Drakensberg Park and Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Game Park. In other words, the study seeks to objectify and establish how local …
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National identity in post-apartheid South Africa
This study investigates the changes in national identity in South Africa over time and examines conditions and perceptions that inform national identity. It has three areas of focus: examining the levels of national identity in South Africa in 2008, the most current year of survey data available; …
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Apartheid and identity redefinition : a conflictual analysis
… has attempted to examine how the imposition of Apartheid identity constructs has adversely impacted upon the processes of and to describe the extent to which the participants have allowed the present hegemony to influence the structuring of their consciousness. The structural inequalities …
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Apartheid now : the private lives of others
… dignity. My paper begins with a brief account of apartheid, focusing particularly on the way in which violent racial oppression was embodied in law. I then proceed to draw on the legal sociology of Niklas Luhmann, whose account of the legal system as a normatively closed, self-referential system …
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Hardness in motion : retrieving Johannesburg after Apartheid
… in its second incarnation - that of the post-apartheid, post-gold mining metropolis - and the fact of this historic overturning demands reappraisal of what Johannesburg is, and more importantly, what it can become. Its complexities stand in stark opposition to an apparent banality that arises …
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Poetry and Politics in Post-Apartheid South Africa
… poetry to articulate political critique in Post-Apartheid South Africa. The aim of the project is to evaluate the extent to which poetry provides criticism of a contemporary political climate marked by government corruption, rising social inequality and widespread immiseration. I argue that both …
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Constructing activist identities in post-apartheid South Africa
… on the social and political context of post-apartheid South Africa. The first part of this study provides an account of the dynamics of political community formation amongst this group of activists, how they generate a shared understanding of the world, how they construct borders of belonging …
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A history of apartheid censorship through the archive
… considered to be “undesirable,” South Africa's apartheid-era censors prevented a vast array of literature from being freely circulated in South Africa. The official and symbolic power that they wielded as the gatekeepers of literature seemed almost unmatched, and the system is still discussed …
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Violence and society in post-apartheid Cape Town
High levels of crime and violence continue to plague South Africa after nearly two decades of peace and democratic rule. While collective violence continues to occur in the form of violent protests and community mob justice, the majority of violent incidents in South Africa are instances of …
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Fractious Form: The Trans/Mutable Post-Apartheid Novel
… degree, and in what way, the paradigm of anti-apartheid literature gives way to its post-apartheid successor. More particularly, I explore how post-apartheid South African novels perpetuate, displace or transmute the narrative forms and conventions characteristic of anti-apartheid writing. I …
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Athol Fugard and race relations : social dynamics under apartheid
… this study will be to explore the impact of the apartheid policies on individual citizens and race-relations in South Africa as portrayed in three of the plays of Athol Fugard. Chapter One, as an introduction, will survey the various legislation Fugard alludes to in some of his plays which ensure …
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Explaining changes in post-apartheid income and earnings inequality
… the changes in income inequality in post-apartheid South Africa. The thesis adds to the existing literature by explaining the underlying causes of the changes in observed income inequality. As such, this thesis applies different decomposition methods to the Gini coefficient. In the …
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Contextualizing socio economic rights in post apartheid South Africa
The UNDP Human Development Report 1994 informs us that "a fifth of the developing world's population goes hungry every night, a quarter lacks afcess to even a basic necessity like safe drinking water, and a third lives in abject poverty - at such a margin of human existence that words simply fail …
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Post-apartheid Speculative Fiction and the South African City
… the rapid pace of change that has marked post-apartheid South Africa as an impetus for emerging literary traditions within contemporary South African speculative fiction, the argument begins by sketching the connections between South Africa's transition to democracy and the emerging speculative …
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Cover stories & undercover stories apartheid South Africa 1969-1984
… centers around one question: how did the apartheid state’s security forces decide to send the bomb that killed Jeanette and Katryn Schoon on the 28th of June 1984? This dissertation argues that the targeting of Jeanette Schoon was neither random nor thoughtless, but rather was the result …
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Afrikanerdoom? : negotiating Afrikaner identity in post-apartheid South Africa
The apartheid regime monopolised Afrikanerdom and institutionalised a specific Christian-nationalist Afrikaner identity. In post-apartheid South Africa this identity is no longer sanctioned by the state, and central elements of the identity have become illegitimate - most importantly the racial …
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The language textbook in a post-apartheid education system
… of English language textbooks in a post-apartheid terrain, and suggests a few areas of research pertinent to such an undertaking.
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