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- Title
Dwelling with impermanence: Emic perspectives on the realities of structuring residential place in the temporary informal settlement of Sgodi Phola/Zevenfontein.
- Authors
Hill, Cherre Ann; Van Heerden, Eulalie
- Abstract
This case study offers analysis of emic perspectives on the structuring of place in a temporary informal settlement - a place with two names: Sgodi Photo and Zevenfontein. The former name encompasses expressions of finding space to erect a dwellings It identifies a place where domestic space is framed by economic and kinship factors. conceptions of shock and house, and expressions of domesticity, dignity and personhood. as well as notions of home and being homeless. The latter name has historical and politicized connotations, and it refers to a geographical location. as well as the structuring of a contained community. The key matters that are dealt with ore the names of the settlement, the construction of dwellings and the social and political structuring of the settlement, which together manifest the cognitive dimensions of what impermanent residence means to the dwellers themselves.
- Subjects
HOUSING laws; KIN recognition; POLITICAL statistics; HOMELESS families; APARTMENT dwellers; HOUSEHOLD ecology; HOME economics
- Publication
Anthropology Southern Africa (Anthropology Southern Africa), 2003, Vol 26, Issue 1/2, p16
- ISSN
0258-0144
- Publication type
Article