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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Bo-Kaap"”.
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Bo-Kaap architecture : a critique of structuralist theory
… data base is provided by a sample of houses from Bo-Kaap. Interpretation suggests the inadquacies and limitations of a structuralist understanding and recommends the need for new direction.
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An Ethnographic Study on Heritage Preservation in Bo-Kaap
… paper analyses the culture and community in Bo-Kaap, which is battling to preserve its heritage amid growing gentrification. Gentrification in this area is analysed as a special case in point, as although gentrification is happening in other neighbourhoods in Cape Town, Bo-Kaap is the home of …
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Film-making in socio-culturally sensitive areas : lessons from the Bo-Kaap
The main issues around filming in the Bo-Kaap are the need for film crews to respect the area's cultural norms, and for the community to benefit from the inconvenience of hosting film shoots. Recommendations to mitigate costs and enhance benefits of filming, according to the principles of …
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Accounting for the differential gentrification outcomes of the Bo-Kaap and De Waterkant, Cape Town
… experienced urban renewal and regeneration. The Bo-Kaap and De Waterkant, two inner city neighbourhoods adjacent to one another, have reacted differently to this process. De Waterkant is completely gentrified, and the Bo-Kaap not. This research study aimed to demonstrate the contrasting potential …
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A Paean to the Prayer Quarry: Memories and burial in the Old Malay Quarter, Bo-Kaap
The Bo-Kaap is my landscape of memories, serving as a platform from which I can direct my story. It is a landscape that gives me a sense of belonging and provides me with spatial reference points to anchor my memories. The Bo-Kaap was my place of childhood encounters and is still my landscape of …
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Changing values in heritage: shifts from the tangible to intangible in urban historic environments bo-kaap as case study
… within the urban historic environment of Bo-Kaap, the oldest residential suburb of Cape Town. Exploring changing values in Bo-Kaap, where tangible and intangible heritage intersect in the contemporary moment, showcases how heritage ably and fluidly adapts and transforms as an ever-shifting …
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Code-Switching among Bilingual Speakers of Cape Muslim Afrikaans and South African English in the Bo-Kaap, Cape Town
The Bo-Kaap is traditionally a Cape Muslim Afrikaans-speaking community, and sociohistorically it is particularly relevant to the development of Afrikaans at the Cape (Davids 2011, Mahida 1993). The Cape Muslim Afrikaans spoken in the Bo-Kaap is a sub-variety of Standard Afrikaans (Kotzé 1989, …
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Represencing place: the assembly of a vertical landscape from in-between space
… attachment to place. An attachment to the Bo-Kaap as the embedded landscape of my spatial memory and cultural identity. My family holds a deep place attachment to the Bo-Kaap. It's the inscribed space of my forefathers and the only place that they've known as 'home'. Since the abolition of …
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Seeds of the future in the Present: Exploring the Intersections of [placemaking] through the Anatomic-Tectonic and Nature Reconnection Practices
… from a deep-seated personal attachment to the Bo-Kaap, not only as a site of historical and cultural significance, but as a dynamic learning landscape that instilled within me a profound appreciation, connection, and love for the natural environment. Focused on the St Monica's precinct of …
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The influences on the two inner city housing projects of the Bo Kaap and District Six in Cape Town that were built between 1938 and 1944
… two Cape Town inner city housing projects in the Bo Kaap and District Six that were built after the introduciton of the Slums Act of 1943, between 1938 and 1944. During this period there there were changes in the hegemonic perceptions of the city. The eradication of slums served as a catalyst for …
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Sense of Place, Sense of self: Sharing place through the lens of food, culture and the sensory embodiment of space
… dissertation, I hold near personal memories of Bo-Kaap, my family, and interpretations of home and sense of place. Through this paper, I will explore how I can share culture, place, and a sense of place through the lens of food with a key focus on the sensory embodiment of space. I will look …
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Sensory flows of spice: a multisensory ethnography exploring how spice influences home cooks’ sense of belonging in Cape Town
… houses at the foot of Table Mountain in Bo-kaap previously known as the Malay quarters. This embellishment of a spicy orientalist narrative of Cape history continues to silence the realities of complex overlapping identities that are held in “coloured” bodies in post-apartheid South …
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Discourse on civilization: postliberal postsecular histories of the ghetto
… privileged multi–culture, the Oriental Ghetto of Bo– Kaap, Cape Town. The project introduces the theoretical formulation of ‘Apartheid Orientalism' as the aesthetic classicism of global settler coloniality. Apartheid is the rationalization, industrialization, and massification of colonial …