Transforming Cape Town

Name: Transforming Cape Town
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ISBN: 9780520256712

ISBN-10: 0520256719

ISBN-13: 9780520256712

Edition: 2008

Authors: Catherine Besteman

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This study provides a window into the lives of ordinary South Africans more than ten years after the end of apartheid, with the promises of the democracy movement remaining largely unfulfilled. Catherine Besteman explores the emotional and personal aspects of the transition to black majority rule by homing in on intimate questions of love, family, and community and capturing the complex, sometimes contradictory voices of a wide variety of Capetonians. Her evaluation of the physical and psychic costs to individuals involved in working for social change is grounded in the experiences of the participants and illu-minates two overarching dimensions of life in Cape Town: the aggregate forces…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 9/2/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Transformation Stories



Seduction



Legacies



Ignorance Is Not Bliss



Fieldwork Discomforts



Still Waiting



Dodging Bullets



Identity Issues



Transformers



Some Lessons


Notes


Index