Transforming Cape Town
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A01=Catherine Besteman
after end of apartheid
Author_Catherine Besteman
cape town
Category=JHM
community
democracy movement largely unfilled
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family
grassroots efforts to effect social change
love
maintain apartheid era status quo
physical and psychic costs
study of south africans
transition to black majority rule
variety of capetonians
working for social change
Product details
- ISBN 9780520256712
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 02 Sep 2008
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 illuminates two overarching dimensions of life in Cape Town: the aggregate forces determined to maintain the apartheid-era status quo, and the grassroots efforts to effect social change.
Catherine Besteman is Professor of Anthropology and Director of African Studies at Colby College.
