Exile Identity, Agency and Belonging in South Africa (eBook)

The Masupatsela Generation

Zosa De Sas Kropiwnicki (Autor)

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2017 | 1st ed. 2017
XVII, 350 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-53276-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This book examines the experiences of 49 second-generation exiles from South Africa. Using 'generation' as an analytical concept, it investigates the relational, temporal and embodied nature of their childhoods in terms of kinship relations, life cycle, cohort development and memory-making. It reveals how child agents exploited the liminal nature of exile to negotiate their sense of identity, home and belonging, while also struggling over their position and power in formal Politics and informal politics of the everyday. It also reflects upon their political consciousness, identity and sense of civic duty on return to post-apartheid South Africa, and how this has led to the emergence of the Masupatsela generational cohort concerned with driving social and political change in South Africa.   

Zosa De Sas Kropiwnicki is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. 

Inhalt

Chapter 1: IntroductionACT I: EXILE Chapter 2: Roots and Routes of ExileChapter 3: The Emergence of a Generational CohortChapter 4: Care and Protection in the Liminal Spaces of ExileChapter 5: Home, Identity and BelongingACT II: RETURNChapter 6: IntroductionChapter 7: The Meeting of Myths and RealityChapter 8: Identity and Belonging in Post-Apartheid South AfricaChapter 9: Obligations and Agency in Post-Apartheid South AfricaChapter 10: Conclusion

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.7.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Palgrave Studies on Children and Development
• Reihe/Serie: Palgrave Studies on Children and Development
• Zusatzinfo: XVII, 350 p.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Apartheid • Childhood • Cohort Development • development theory • Kinship Relations • Life Cycle • Memory-making • Political Consciousness • Post-Apartheid • South Africa
• ISBN-10: 3-319-53276-6 / 3319532766
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-53276-9 / 9783319532769