dc.contributor.advisor | Kaden, Marthie | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Annecke, Eve | |
dc.contributor.author | Meyer, Gwendolyn Mary | |
dc.contributor.other | Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences. School of Public Leadership. | en_ZA |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-03-09T14:29:43Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-03-09T14:29:43Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-03 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/98525 | |
dc.description | Thesis (MPA)--Stellenbosch University, 2016. | en_ZA |
dc.description | | |
dc.description.abstract | ENGLISH SUMMARY: The concern of this study is with the persistent crisis of the Eerste River in Stellenbosch
and its relevance in the Anthropocene. In this study, the river is both a lens onto uneven
urban development and an instrument for sustainability as a social movement. The
thesis makes two proposals. The first activates the river as part of the larger knowledge
environment of a watershed and proposes that a watershed is a way to imagine the
interrelationships of place. In this way, a watershed as a common Thing can activate
collective identity and engender care. However, a watershed as a knowledge
environment is complex and diverse.
The second proposal of this study is to examine how participatory photography can
connect social networks to co-create knowledge about identity in this complex
environment. The location for this case study was at the ecologically designed Research
Centre in the informal settlement of Enkanini. However, the participatory photography
workshop encountered difficulties, and this led to multi-layered methods of engagement
in Enkanini that included walking and conversation.
The images from the participatory photography workshop describe an intimate story
about a place. When publically exhibited in Enkanini, unexpected audience participation
emerged, and the photographs elicited further knowledge. The result is a public visual
ethnography of place that could be used in a conversation about the identity of the
Stellenbosch watershed. Underpinning the research is the flexible and iterative approach
of Transdisciplinary Research Methodology (TDR). | en_ZA |
dc.description.abstract | AFRIKAANS OPSOMMING: Die belang van hierdie studie is in die voortgesette krisis van die Eersterivier in
Stellenbosch en sy relevansie in die Antroposeniese tyd. In hierdie studie is die rivier ’n
vergrootglas op ongelyke stedelike ontwikkeling en ’n instrument vir volhoubaarheid as
’n sosiale beweging. Die tesis bied twee voorstelle. Die eerste een laat werk die rivier as
deel van die groter kennisomgewing van ’n waterskeiding en dit stel voor dat ’n
waterskeiding ’n manier is om jou die interverhouding van ’n plek te verbeel. Op hierdie
manier is ’n waterskeiding ’n algemene Ding wat kollektiewe identiteit kan teweegbring
en sorg kan meebring. ’n Waterskeiding as ’n kennisomgewing is egter kompleks en
divers.
Die tweede voorstel van hierdie studie is om te ondersoek hoe deelnemende fotografie
sosiale netwerke by mekaar kan bring om kennis oor identiteit in hierdie komplekse
omgewing saam te skep. Die ligging vir hierdie studie was by die ekologiese ontwerpte
Navorsingsentrum in die informele nedersetting van Enkanini. Die slypskool vir
deelnemende fotografie het egter probleme ervaar en dit het tot verskeie metodes van
betrekking in Enkanini gelei wat rondloop en gesprekke ingesluit het.
Die beelde van die slypskool vir deelnemende fotografie beskryf ’n intieme storie oor ’n
plek. Met die openbare tentoonstelling in Enkanini het onverwagse gehoordeelname
plaasgevind, en die foto’s het verdere kennis ontlok. Die resultaat is ’n openbare visuele
etnografie van ’n plek wat in gesprekke rondom die identiteit van die Stellenboschwaterskeiding
gebruik kan word. Die buigbare en herhalende benadering van
Transdissiplinêre navorsingsmetodologie (TDR) vorm die grondslag van hierdie
navorsing. | af_ZA |
dc.format.extent | 97 pages ; illustrations | en_ZA |
dc.language.iso | en_ZA | en_ZA |
dc.publisher | Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Eerste river -- South Africa -- Stellenbosch | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Participatory photography | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Narrative of place | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Sustainable development -- Stellenbosch | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Etnography -- South Africa -- Stellenbosch -- Enkanini | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Stellenbosch (South Africa) -- Social conditions | en_ZA |
dc.subject | UCTD | |
dc.title | Methods of engagement; a transdisciplinary learning approach to the problem of the Eerste River | en_ZA |
dc.type | Thesis | en_ZA |
dc.rights.holder | Stellenbosch University | en_ZA |