The time of activism: an ethnographic study on the Philippi Horticultural Area (PHA) campaign and its practices of “working” time and representation in Cape Town

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dc.contributor.advisorRobins, Steven Lanceen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorWingfield, Matthew Michaelen_ZA
dc.contributor.otherStellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Sociology and Social Anthropologyen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-24T17:04:22Z
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-16T12:54:08Z
dc.date.available2022-11-24T17:04:22Z
dc.date.available2023-01-16T12:54:08Z
dc.date.issued2022-12
dc.descriptionThesis (DPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2022.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research examines an under-resourced activist group, the PHA Campaign, as it has attempted to ‘save the PHA’ from non-agricultural developments. The Philippi Horticultural Area (PHA), which has been an agricultural hub since the mid-1800s, has shrunk in size owing to a slew of spatial policy amendments. These amendments have left the ‘community’ of the PHA fragmented and divided, as some land owners look to sell their properties to developers, contributing to problems of land speculation. This research shows how the PHA Campaign, through its agroecological Vegkop farm, has sought to stop non-agricultural developments in the PHA, while further positioning itself as a stakeholder in the area. By advocating for the protection of the aquifer which lies beneath the area, the PHA Campaign has framed itself in opposition to the environmentally destructive practices of the hegemonic commercial farming model in the area. This research shows how the PHA Campaign has used the ‘Day Zero’ crisis to give impetus to its environmental activism, as it ‘works’ the possibilities that arise in contexts of crisis through the framework of “slow activism” (Robins, 2014). From three years of ethnographic research in the PHA, this research further shows how the PHA Campaign has positioned its “environmental imaginary” (Cock, 2020) within the broader environmental activist networks in South Africa in order to navigate questions of social justice and ‘representation’ which remain fundamental challenges to environmental activism more broadly.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractAFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie navorsing kyk na 'n onderbevoorregte aktivistegroep, die PHA Campaign, aangesien dit gepoog het om die PHA te red van nie-landbou-ontwikkelings. Die Philippi-tuinbougebied (PHA), wat sedert die middel van die 1800's 'n landboumiddelpunt is, het in grootte gekrimp as gevolg van 'n rits ruimtelike beleidwysigings. Hierdie wysigings het die "gemeenskap" van die PHA gefragmenteer en verdeeld gelaat, aangesien sommige grondeienaars hul eiendomme aan ontwikkelaars wil verkoop, wat bydra tot probleme van grondspekulasie. Hierdie navorsing wys hoe die PHA-veldtog, deur middel van sy landbou-ekologiese Vegkop-plaas, probeer het om nie-landbou-ontwikkelings in die PHA te stuit, terwyl hy homself verder as 'n belanghebbende in die gebied posisioneer. Deur te pleit vir die beskerming van die waterdraer wat onder die gebied lê, het die PHA-veldtog homself in opposisie gevorm teen die omgewingsvernietigende praktyke van die hegemoniese kommersiële boerderymodel in die gebied. Hierdie navorsing toon hoe die PHA-veldtog die “Dag Zero”-krisis gebruik het om stukrag aan sy omgewingsaktivisme te gee, aangesien dit die moontlikhede wat in krisiskontekste ontstaan, “werk” deur die raamwerk van “stadige aktivisme” (Robins, 2014). Uit drie jaar se etnografiese navorsing in die PHA, toon hierdie navorsing verder hoe die PHA-veldtog sy "omgewingsdenkbeelde" (Cock, 2020) binne die breër omgewingsaktivistiese netwerke in Suid-Afrika geposisioneer het om vrae oor sosiale geregtigheid en "verteenwoordiging te navigeer” wat fundamentele uitdagings vir omgewingsaktivisme in die bree bly.af_ZA
dc.description.versionDoctoralen_ZA
dc.format.extentxv, 208 pages : illustrationsen_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/126179
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherStellenbosch : Stellenbosch Universityen_ZA
dc.rights.holderStellenbosch Universityen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshDrought management -- South Africa -- Cape Town Droughts -- Government policy -- South Africa -- Cape Town Drought management -- South Africa -- Cape Town Water-supply -- South Africa -- Cape Town Horticulture -- South Africa -- Cape Town Philippi (Cape Town, South Africa) Day Zero -- South Africa -- Cape Town Climatic changes -- Social aspects Green movement Water security -- South Africa -- Cape Town Water conservation -- South Africa -- Cape Townen_ZA
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dc.titleThe time of activism: an ethnographic study on the Philippi Horticultural Area (PHA) campaign and its practices of “working” time and representation in Cape Townen_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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