Belonging to the West Coast : an ethnography of St Helena Bay in the context of marine resource scarcity

This dissertation uses ethnography as a means to examine how multiple-scale patterns of interaction between social and ecological systems as they manifest locally in St Helena Bay. The growing integration of the West Coast has brought rapid change in the form of industrial production, urban development and in-migration. The pressure placed on local resources by these processes has been exacerbated by the rationalisation of the local fisheries - there are fewer jobs in the formal industry and small-scale fishing rights have become circumscribed. In the neighbourhood of Laingville, historically-contingent racial categories have become reinvigorated in a context resource scarcity.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Social Anthropology

Year dc:date.issued

2010

Author dc:creator

• Schultz, Oliver John

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Green, Lesley

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13040

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/13040