De Sas Kropiwnicki Exile Identity, Agency and Belonging in South Africa

The Masupatsela Generation
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-53276-9
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 350 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Palgrave Studies on Children and Development

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.   

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

De Sas Kropiwnicki, Zosa

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction
ACT I: EXILE 
Chapter 2: Roots and Routes of Exile
Chapter 3: The Emergence of a Generational Cohort
Chapter 4: Care and Protection in the Liminal Spaces of Exile
Chapter 5: Home, Identity and Belonging
ACT II: RETURN
Chapter 6: Introduction
Chapter 7: The Meeting of Myths and Reality
Chapter 8: Identity and Belonging in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Chapter 9: Obligations and Agency in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Chapter 10: Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

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