Research Catalog

Title

Reflections on identity in four African cities / edited by Simon Bekker & Anne Leildé.

Publication

[Stellenbosch] : African Minds, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bekker, S. B.
• Leildé, Anne.

Description

vi, 248 p.; 21 cm.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subjects

• Ethnische Identitat
• Gruppenidentitat
• South Africa > Civilization
• Africa > Social life and customs
• South Africa > Social life and customs
• Nationalism > South Africa
• Nationalism > Africa
• Group identity > South Africa
• Group identity > Africa
• Africa > Civilization

Note

• "This book arose out of an international three-year collaborative programme launched in 2001 and funded by South Africa's National Research Foundation (NRF) and France's Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)"--Pref. and acknowledgements.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-241) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Simon Bekker -- 2. Identity studies in Africa: notes on theory and method / Charles Puttergill & Anne Leilde -- 3. Cape Town and Johannesburg / Izak van der Merwe & Arlene Davids -- 4. Demographic profiles of Libreville and Lome / Hugues Steve Ndinga-Koumba Binza -- 5. Space and identity: thinking through some South African examples / Phillipe Gervais-Lambony -- 6. Domestic workers, job access, and work identities in Cape Town and Johannesburg / When shacks ain't chic! planning for difference in post-apartheid Cape Town / Steven Robins -- 7. Discourses on a changing urban environment: reflections of middle-class white people in Johannesburg / Charles Puttergill -- 8. Class, race and language in Cape Town and Johannesburg / Simon Becker & Anne Leilde -- 9. Importance of language identities to black residents of Cape Town and Johannesburg / Robert Mongwe -- 10. Importance of language identities in Lome and Libreville / Simon Bekker & Anne Leilde -- 11. What is an African? narratives from urban South Africa, Gabon and Togo / Anne Leilde

ISBN

• 1920051406 (pbk.)
• 9781920051402 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 83579946
• SCSB-12891229

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library