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Showing 1 to 20 of 477 for “"post-apartheid"”.
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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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Poetry and Politics in Post-Apartheid South Africa
… of 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 …
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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 …
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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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Explaining changes in post-apartheid income and earnings inequality
… analyses 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 …
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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
… publishing 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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Income stratification and polarization in post-apartheid South Africa
… stratification, and social polarization in post-Apartheid South Africa. It uses data from a survey conducted at the end of Apartheid, and data from two post-Apartheid surveys to understand the socio-economic transformation the country has undergone since the end of Apartheid. At the dawn of …
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Memorial as field : problematizing Cape Town's post apartheid void
Apartheid cut and divided South African society on the basis of race and ethnicity, segmenting the nation spatially, politically, and economically. Subsequently, this thesis project questions how contemporary architecture can provide a meaningful response to locations of urban trauma caused by …
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Towards a housing policy for post-apartheid South Africa
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies, 1987.
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Claiming space in post-apartheid urban planning in South Africa
… developed and the status quo persists during post-apartheid urban planning. The research draws on the tools of post-modernist planning theory to investigate and analyze the claim for space. Thus the study commences with a critical analysis of modem and apartheid urban planning theories and …
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The representation of Black masculinity in post-apartheid children's literature.
… landscape of South Africa since the abolition of apartheid and the implementation of democracy have had far-reaching effects in social order and gender relations. With the new dispensation has come the promise of new opportunities for men and women of all races to participate fully in the creation …
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Racial discrimination in post-apartheid South Africa : an experimental analysis
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 69-74).
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Community participation and participatory development in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Bibliography: leaves 65-75.
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Ethnography of 'Herero Mall' (Windhoek) as a post-apartheid social space
The post-apartheid city represents an important reflector of a society in transition. Urban space as a mixture of complex interrelations and social interactions provides a prism through which a society in transition is illuminated. This transition is captured in social spaces. Yet, there is a …
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"Race" Conditioning Social Cohesion in the Post-Apartheid Cape Town Neighbourhood
… effects and shapes social integration in the post-apartheid Cape Town neighbourhood. The underlying questions are whether and how the racial classifications inherited from apartheid are meaningful when residents negotiate, determine and arrange their changing neighbourhood and neighbours. The …
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Through a Coloured Lens: Post-Apartheid Indentity amongst Coloureds in KZN
Although the term creolization is widely applied in the Caribbean and Latin America, I find the concept useful in describing the ethnogenesis of Coloureds as a new group of people in South Africa. To call Coloured people "creole" deviates from the prescribed racialized and informal definition of …
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