Critiquing prescriptions of place and belonging in neoliberal post-apartheid Cape Town: An ethnography on the politics of abjection in language, policy, and practice

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dc.contributor.advisorTayob, Shaheeden_ZA
dc.contributor.authorMichaels, Angelique Oliviaen_ZA
dc.contributor.otherStellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Sociology and Social Anthropology.en_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-20T21:42:26Z
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-16T12:49:05Z
dc.date.available2022-11-20T21:42:26Z
dc.date.available2023-01-16T12:49:05Z
dc.date.issued2022-12
dc.descriptionThesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2022.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study speaks to politics of race, place, belonging, and of inherited conditions shaping prospects in the post-apartheid present. I consider abjection as it finds expression in urban development discourse and Cape Town’s aspiration to a world-class aesthetic, in media reports discussing homelessness, the rehabilitative interventions geared to address it, and in the material infrastructure and well-meaning rhetorics advanced in shelter contexts. Ethnographic fieldwork, for the most part, was conducted at The Haven Night Shelter in Bellville and the Safe Space, on the Foreshore in Cape Town. Proposing an intertextual approach grounded in material semiotics and inspired by literary and critical theory, I acknowledge the constituting power of discourse, the ideologies and rhetorics inscribed in material things, and the political and social life of infrastructures. I take participants’ perspectives seriously and foreground the experiences of the people towards whom rehabilitative interventions and infrastructures of care are geared. In their aspirations to home and place in spaces not prescribed for them, and in their intimate relations with infrastructures of the city of which they have formulated critiques. These critiques, articulated and lived, are inscribed into their bodies, into the places they inhabit and the streets they traverse. Their stories point to accretive historical and discursive processes, to intergenerational legacies, and the structured conditions they inform. Yet, at the level of everyday practice, they suggest, creativities are enacted and alternative modalities of being, can be conceived. It is the politics and potentialities of transgression that inspires this ethnographic enquiry into homelessness.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractAFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Geen opsomming beskikbaar nie.af_ZA
dc.description.versionMastersen_ZA
dc.format.extent156 pages : illustrationsen_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/126080
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherStellenbosch : Stellenbosch Universityen_ZA
dc.rights.holderStellenbosch Universityen_ZA
dc.subjectCDA (Critical discourse analysis)en_ZA
dc.subjectSociology, Urban -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectRace relations -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectSouth Africa -- Politics and government -- 1994-en_ZA
dc.subjectHaven Night Shelter -- South Africa -- Belvilleen_ZA
dc.subjectSafe Space Shelter -- South Africa -- Cape Town Forshoreen_ZA
dc.subjectPost-apartheid era -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectApartheid -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectEthnology -- Fieldwork -- Semioticsen_ZA
dc.subjectShelter for homeless -- Social conditions -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectHaven Night Shelter Welfare Organizationen_ZA
dc.subjectHNSWOen_ZA
dc.subjectUCTD
dc.titleCritiquing prescriptions of place and belonging in neoliberal post-apartheid Cape Town: An ethnography on the politics of abjection in language, policy, and practiceen_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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