Changing identities in urban South Africa : an interpretation of narratives in Cape Town

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dc.contributor.advisorBekker, S. B.en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorLeilde, Anne C.en_ZA
dc.contributor.otherStellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Sociology and Social Anthropology.
dc.date.accessioned2008-11-18T10:31:14Zen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2010-06-01T08:17:02Z
dc.date.available2008-11-18T10:31:14Zen_ZA
dc.date.available2010-06-01T08:17:02Z
dc.date.issued2008-12
dc.descriptionThesis (DPhil (Sociology and Social Anthropology))--Stellenbosch University, 2008.
dc.description.abstractIdentity reflects and aims to control one’s experience. It is an act of consciousness which is neither essential nor immutable but a social construct open to change as circumstances, strategies and interactions fluctuate. It needs therefore to be situated historically and relationally, as identity is a matter of social context. This thesis sets out to investigate processes of identity formation in post-apartheid South Africa, i.e. a context marked by deep changes at both symbolic/material structural levels, in particular within the urban setup. On the basis of focus group discussions with residents of Cape Town, various, and at times contradictory, strategies of identification are explored. Residents’ discourses are analysed on the basis of two entry points, that of the context or the ‘scale’ within which discourse occurs (from the local, to the urban, the national and the continental) and that of the traditional categories of class, race and culture. The narratives that urban citizens draw upon to make sense of their lives and environment illuminate the emergence of new social boundaries among citizens which, though volatile and situational, reveal a changing picture of South Africa as a nation.en_ZA
dc.description.versionDoctoral
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1272
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherStellenbosch : Stellenbosch University
dc.rights.holderStellenbosch University
dc.subjectIdentity Cape Townen_ZA
dc.subjectSocial change Cape Townen_ZA
dc.subjectIdentity narratives Cape Townen_ZA
dc.subjectDissertations -- Sociologyen_ZA
dc.subjectTheses -- Sociologyen_ZA
dc.titleChanging identities in urban South Africa : an interpretation of narratives in Cape Townen_ZA
dc.typeThesis
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