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Spatial and organisational complexity in the Dwars River Valley, Western Cape
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: C. S. van der Waal --- Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology,Access to land and housing in South Africa is of great importance to a range of actors, leading to contested processes and complex organisational interactions. Using the anthropology of organisations and a process ethnographic approach, the spatial and organisational complexity... -
Women, difference and urbanisation patterns in Cape Town, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Andrew Spiegel --- Department of Social Anthropology, South Africa Vanessa Watson --- Department of Social Anthropology, South Africa Peter Wilkinson --- Department of Social Anthropology, South AfricaA point apparently often lost to policy makers is that those for whom policy is designed have very diverse life experiences. The article focuses on two women's experiences of urbanisation: experiences that are extremely different from one another, despite the... -
Embodied urban health and illness in Cape Town: children's reflections on living in Symphony Way Temporary Relocation Area
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Efua Prah --- Department of Anthropology and Sociology, South AfricaThis paper explores ideas about health and illness held by six children who live in the Symphony Way Temporary Relocation Area in Cape Town, South Africa. The research shows that solutions to illness and health problems held by low-income populations... -
Urbanization and housing development in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Simona Totaforti --- , ItalyThe South African urban system is a significant testbed for the analysis of urban forms in emerging economies. On the one hand, the urbanization processes have similar characteristics to those found elsewhere in the world, while on the other they... -
Adoption of eco-bricks for housing: the case of Yelwa, Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Uche Emmanuel Edike --- , Nigeria Omotayo Aina --- , Nigeria Adebowale Babalola Adeoye --- , NigeriaThe benefits of eco-bricks have been highlighted in contemporary literature. Notwithstanding, the adoption of eco-bricks masonry for the construction of houses in rural communities of low-income countries is significantly low. This study investigated the features, benefits, drivers and barriers to... -
Divergent Housing Spatialities and Gender Subjectivities in Transition: Women's Cooperatives and Poverty Eradication Discourse in Dakar, Senegal
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Elettra Griesi --- Collaborative Research Centre 1265, Technische Universität Berlin, GermanyThis article examines the dynamic relationship between spaces and subjectivity, demonstrating how they mutually influence each other to produce distinctive housing spatialities. Through ethnographic research in Thiaroye sur Mer, Dakar (Senegal), I analyze how women's subjectivities, responding to historical processes...