Seeing selves and others: rethinking 'the tourist gaze' of township tourism as inter-subjectivity in Cape Town, South Africa

This dissertation is intended as an "ethnography of the particular" that might demonstrate the inter-subjectivity of 'hosts' and 'guests' subject-positions so often presented as static and oppositional of township tourism in Cape Town, South Africa. The majority of research engages in a continuing debate that emphasizes either the 'hosts' or 'guests' of a global tourism industry as either the victims or profiteers of exploitation, or innovative and entrepreneurial agents of change. I attempt is to look for the transformative potentials in the ambiguities and ambivalences surrounding township tourism, as an industry representing evidence of further penetration by neoliberalism in sub-Saharan Africa, that does not pardon the proclivities of late capitalism to widen the gaps of social stratification, but rather questions its determinism in shaping subjectivities.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Social Anthropology

Year dc:date.issued

2011

Author dc:creator

• Dickson, Jessica Lynn

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Macdonald, Helen

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10343

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/10343