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020 $a9781919895277
020 $a9781920499327
024 7 $a$2doi
041 0 $aeng
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072 7 $aJHMC$2bicssc
100 1 $aRoss, Fiona$4aut
245 10 $aRaw Life, New Hope
260 $aCape Town, South Africa$bUCT Press$c20090923
520 $aThe Cape Flats, a windswept, barren and sandy area which rings Cape Town, is home to more than a million people. Many live here in sprawling shack settlements. The post-apartheid state is attempting to eradicate such settlements by providing formal houses in planned residential estates. Raw Life, New Hope is a longitudinal study of the residents of one such shack settlement, The Park, who moved to new, 'formal' houses in The Village, at the turn of the millennium. It introduces readers to core social science topics and modes of theorising. Over 17 years the author has traced how ordinary people attempt to live in accord with their ideals of decency under almost impossible circumstances, and the effects of material changes in their lives after 1994, including the provision of housing. Photos, maps, anecdotes, recipes and philosophical reflections on subjects that arose during conversations elicit a sense of the everyday and of how people try to solve the problems of poverty.
536 $aKnowledge Unlatched$c100294$bKU Select 2016 Backlist Collection
546 $aEnglish.
650 7 $aSocial & cultural anthropology, ethnography$2bicssc
653 $aHistory
653 $ainformal settlements
653 $ashack settlements,Cape Flats
653 $apost-apartheid state
653 $aformal housing
653 $alongitudinal study
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