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White Namibians in tourism and the politics of belonging through Bushmen
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Stasja P. Koot --- International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, The NetherlandsNamibian Bushmen, such as the Hai//om and the Ju/’hoansi, are increasingly involved in the growing, white-dominated tourism industry. In this, white Namibians tend to position Bushmen and themselves as people of nature and conservationists. Elsewhere, whites from southern Africa have... -
‘Social pain and social death’: poor white stigma in post-apartheid South Africa, a case of West Bank in East London
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Octavia Sibanda --- Fort Hare Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Fort Hare,This article looks at poor white stigma in post-apartheid South Africa. Drawing on my ethnographic engagement with my informants, I developed this article as a part of my broader argument that explores the complex nature of white poverty in South... -
Wounded citizenship: the post-colonial city and poor whites
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Octavia Sibanda --- Fort Hare Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Fort Hare, South AfricaThis paper focuses on wounds inflicted on poor whites in South Africa by the post-colonial city emanating from a changing socio-political and economic landscape. Contrary to the general assumption that the modern city project “historically embraced whites and continues to...