University of Macau / Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Department of Communication

In this article I examine as mediations of urban experience poems written by Koos du Plessis. a contemporary Afrikaans poet. together with their musical rendition by Johannes Kerkorrel. a singer and musician from the Afrikaans altemative music scene and former member of Die Gereformeerde Blues Band. The poetry was initially published with musical arrangements in the volume Kinders van die Wind : En Ander Lirieke (1981) . In order to use this material in an article produced as part of an English study . I have translated the poetry into English . The translation (in linguistic and performative terms) of these poems has the dual effect of rendering them more appropriately for this study, and making them accessible to a wider audience. I am concemed with the way poems written by a poet from an earlier decade (the 1980s) interpret and mediate an urban identity and. further. with the fact that performance not only gives them a new lease of life. but also transforms them into works which have meaning and appeal for a more contemporary, broader audience. The fundamental issues addressed in this poetry , namely a response to and a negotiation of urban (South African) experience. continue to speak compellingly today. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Durban, 2002.

Originally presented as the author's Thesis (doctoral--Freiburg i. Br., 1989) under the title: Fragmented images. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-357) and index.

“How does one develop an appropriate urban Christian Spirituality?” is the question this study asks. First, I develop a rigorous, yet open, theoretical framework with which to describe Christian Spirituality’s complexity: a description focused primarily on constraining the markers of Biblical Spirituality and City Spirituality. Within the limits placed on the complex system of Christian Spirituality, I begin exploring various, mostly minor, tropes of urban biblical spiritualities in the “Old” and “New” Testament. From these analyses, I evince the implications of these biblical spirituality tropes for the current city theater, and also construe a set of questions evaluating the appropriateness of mitigating urban communities. The study culminates in an imagined ideal mitigating urban community named an ekklesiastes: a wisdom teaching technology of urban meaning, complexity, and resistance. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / M. Th. (Christian Spirituality)

Aracaju, capital of Sergipe, was inaugurated on March 17, 1855, from a unique architectural design, which structured the city just like a chessboard, with the aim of favoring the wealthier social classes, at the expense of disadvantaged groups excluded from the main spaces of the metropolis. That same historical horizon came the Beco dos Cocos, alleyway which functioned primarily as a transit route for landing and supply of coconuts in the fledgling central trade of Aracaju. In the course of time, the alley became a simple crossing point loads to a bohemian enclave, address famous cabarets, becoming then one of the largest areas of prostitution and drug trafficking of the capital of Sergipe, until become what it is today, almost an open bathroom. The central issue guiding this work is, from a microscopic cut, a category scarcely studied in Urban Anthropology, the alley, analyze and understand a variety of precious objects and questions about the functioning of a city, the relationships that may exist and constitute over a platter, its history, and as such movements reveal the daily life of contemporary urban life. From this premise, this research attempts to explain the aesthetic and social transformations occurring in the Beco dos Cocos, the historical process of marginalization of a place so culturally rich and the consequences of interventions and new meanings in this place and to examine to what extent the presence of Government was instrumental in that. In this context, the study turns to build the story of Beco dos Cocos concomitant building of Aracaju, known by some as the first planned city of the country, in order to reducing the size of the city to the heterogeneous micro, untangling the most images of varied social and cultural life of certain times, to understand the phenomenon and urban forms of sociability in the metropolis. / Aracaju, capital sergipana, foi fundada em 17 de março de 1855, a partir de um projeto arquitetônico peculiar, que estruturava a cidade tal qual um tabuleiro de xadrez, com o suposto intuito de privilegiar as classes mais abastadas socialmente, em detrimento dos grupos menos favorecidos, excluídos dos espaços principais da urbe. Nesse mesmo horizonte histórico, surgiu o Beco dos Cocos, travessa que funcionava, primordialmente, como rota de passagem para o desembarque e abastecimento de cocos no incipiente comércio central aracajuano. No curso dos tempos, o Beco transformou-se de um simples local de passagem de cargas a um reduto boêmio, endereço de famosos cabarés, convertendo-se, depois, também em uma das maiores zonas tráfico de entorpecentes da capital sergipana, até se tornar o que é hoje, quase que um banheiro a céu aberto. A problemática central deste trabalho é, a partir de um recorte microscópico, de uma categoria pouco estudada na Antropologia Urbana, o beco, analisar e compreender uma variedade preciosa de objetos e indagações acerca do funcionamento de uma cidade, das relações que podem existir e se constituir ao longo de uma travessa, de sua história e, como tais movimentos revelam o cotidiano da vida urbana contemporânea. Partindo dessa premissa, esta pesquisa pretende explicar as transformações estéticas e sociais ocorridas no Beco dos Cocos, o processo histórico de marginalização de um lugar tão rico culturalmente e as respectivas consequências das intervenções e ressignificações no local; e examinar até que ponto a presença do Poder Público foi determinante nesse processo. Sob esse aspecto, o estudo volta-se a construir a história do Beco dos Cocos concomitante à edificação de Aracaju, conhecida por alguns, como a primeira cidade planejada do país, a fim de, reduzindo a dimensão heterogênea da cidade ao micro, destrinchar as mais variadas imagens da vida social e cultural de determinadas épocas, compreender o fenômeno urbano e as formas de sociabilidade presentes na urbe.

M.Cur. / In the black society, a family is the central unit whose unity and cohesiveness should be maintained. A nuclear family is the predominant form in the urban townships and it is marked by a family group of two generations that consists of the married couple and their children. Another form of family that is dominant is the extended family, which consists of three or more generations, staying in the same household. The extended family is seen as the sole provider of care and emotional support for newly married black women. The essence of the extended family lies in the bonds between its members ignoring the independence and needs of the newly married black women. In South Africa when black couples choose to marry they can do so under the common law or customary law. The customary law encourages payment of lobola, after which the bride (newly married black woman) will be handed over to the extended family, that is the husband's family. The newly married black women are expected to live with their husband's family, in order to learn the "newly" adopted culture of the extended family. The teaching of the new culture" is taught to the newly married woman by the mother and sister in-law. However, if the newly married black women do not follow the expected practices from the teaching of the extended family, this can have a negative effect on their body, mind and spirit. These negative effects can be a result of victimization by the extended family. To explore this problem of the newly married black women further, the researcher conducted a study on the experiences of newly married black women who live with the extended family in an urban township. The objectives of the study were to: • explore and describe the experiences of newly married women living with the extended family; and vi describe guidelines developed for advanced psychiatric nurses to facilitate the mental health of newly married black women that live with the extended family in an urban township. This study was undertaken within the framework of the Theory for Health Promotion in Nursing (Rand Afrikaans University: 2000), that has an approach that is Christian-based, and functions in an integrated bio-psycho social manner (body, mind and spirit). A functional reasoning approach based on Botes' model (2000) was followed. A qualitative, explorative, descriptive and contextual research design was used to answer the research questions. In-depth, semi-structured phenomenological interviews were conducted with newly married black women who met the sample criteria. Steps were taken throughout the research to ensure trustworthiness. To persuade the audience that the findings of this research are worth paying attention to, Guba's model for trustworthiness (Lincoln & Guba, 1989: 289) will be applied. Data analysis was done according to Tesch's (Creswell, 1994: 155) method. The results of this study indicate that newly married black women that stay with the extended family in an urban township, in this study have had various experiences such as: feelings of entrapment by cultural norms; and negative psychological effects evidenced by anger, frustration and hatred. Positive emotions like hope and determination, and the experience of support from outside the extended family were also experienced. Based on these results, guidelines were developed for advanced psychiatric nurses to facilitate the promotion of mental health of newly married women that live with the extended family in an urban township. Conclusions were drawn and recommendations were given concerning psychiatric

Bibliography: leaves 166-174. / There is a lack of information suitable for planners and architects to determine the distribution and intensity of solar radiation in urban spaces. New, tall buildings often reduce the quality of their immediate environment by intercepting sunlight before it reaches street level. While planners and the local authority recognise the necessity to rehumanise the city centre and to protect spaces with human appeal, certain squares are under threat of being overshadowed by the redevelopment of old buildings on their perimeter. This study explores an alternative to existing methods for evaluating the distribution and intensity of solar radiation. Greenmarket Square in central Cape Town was selected as a study area where radiometer readings at fifty-four points were made at one minute intervals from sunrise to sunset in midwinter. Several examples of graphical methods of depicting the readings are critically discussed and results of the field work are analysed in depth using one of the methods. An attempt is made to relate observations of solar radiation levels to human use of the Square. In addition to providing specific information necessary for a full understanding of the new procedures suggested, broadly-based background material on the subject of sun and shade in urban spaces is provided.

In the following nine linked stories, characters from disparate backgrounds and socio-economic strata converge in a rural community along the Missouri river in central Montana. A Texas-based oil exploration and production company takes up residence in the area, causing a stir in the neighborhood. Long-time local residents experience their daily lives amid a tourist driven economy and reaffirm their aspirations to leave despite significant obstacles and limitations. In "Show Me the Way to Go Home," a young waitress is stranded after a car accident and seeks help from residents living on the single row of houses in the area. In "Give Death Grace," a resident artist leaves to resolve her tumultuous past with her father. In "A Good Little Fisherwoman," a woman deals with the repercussions of her recent reproductive decisions during a fishing trip. In "Little Fires," a local man deals with the tragic burn injury of a child while also facing deeply rooted resentments with his mother. In "Dwelling," an aging local must decide whether or not she will sell her home to two strangers. In "Other Important Areas of Functioning," a woman decides to discontinue her mood stabilizing medications in favor of a more natural lifestyle. While this place means something different to each of these characters, they all coexist while facing individual challenges.

Alex Chan Chi Cheung. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2000-2001, design report." / TABLE OF CONTENTS / Chapter 01 --- INTRODUCTION / IT impact on city urban pattems / Traditional limits / Future city live / Chapter 02 --- IMPLICATIONS / Living/ working pattern / Impact on Hong Kong / Existing state / Sociology of wired dwelling / Conclusion - Problem and opportunities / Precedent studies / Defining workspace - new working style / Chapter 03 --- SITE / Site criteria / Assumption - renewal approach / Potential site / Site justification (case study approach) / Site analysis - existing land use / Chapter 04 --- PROGRAMS / Target groups / Tentative programs and justification / Chapter 05 --- ARCHITECTURAL STRATEGIES / Project Aims / Design approach / Concepts / Chapter 06 --- APPENDIX

In this dissertation on Nat Nakasa I argue, in Chapter 1, that he is one of South Africa's first literary flaneurs. Walking the city as an urban spectator, part journalist, part sociologist, his modernist writings of the metropolis celebrate Johannesburg and also place him in a broad international context. His `tactics of the habitat', in Foucault's phrase, become subversive ruses, a navigation through the cultural seam of South Africa in the 1960s, and this approach offers an alternative to a reductionist anti-apartheid critique. Chapter 2 analyses the excavation of his memory and subsequent elevation to media icon, with the naming of the SANEF Award for Media Integrity after him. Chapter 3 discusses how his auto/biographical writings and representation of self and other contribute to `making history's silences speak'. Finally in chapter 4, I discuss his elusive identity as part of the Drum generation, an insider/outsider, and his exile and suicide in America. / English Studies / M.A. (English)