Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2013. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study examines the history of water in two small Karoo towns. The main argument of
the thesis is that the availability of and access to water has played influential roles in the
development of Williston and Prince Albert. The ambitions of this thesis are three-fold:
firstly, the approach is socio-environmental history and therefore it provides insight into the
environmental as well as the social history of the resource in each region. It consciously
reflects on the notion of power and explores the manner in which access to water was
racialised by authorities in each town. Secondly, this thesis provides insight into the
technological and legislative water supply and development of sanitation at both settlements,
which is outlined in a broader national development to contextualise the local trajectories.
Thirdly, through personal narratives it offers an ethnographic analysis of mind-sets such as
fatalism and hopefulness in the face of extreme climatic conditions are examined. The
experiences of the socially marginalised and underrepresented are intended to challenge the
whiggish celebration of anthropogenic ascendancy over nature in the historiography. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie ondersoek die geskiedenis van water in twee klein Karoo dorpies. The hoof
argument van die tesis is dat die beskikbaarheid van en toegang tot water bepalende rolle
gespeel het in die ontwikkeling van Williston en Prins Albeit. Die doelstellings van hierdie
tesis is drievoudig: eerstens, is die benadering sosio-omgewingsgeskiedenis en verskaf dit dus
insig oor die omgewings- sowel as die sosiale geskiedenis van hierdie natuurlike hulpbron in
elke streek. Hierdie werk weerspieel doelbewus die idee van mag en ondersoek die wyse
waarop toegang tot water deur die dorpsowerhede rasbevooroordeeld was. Tweedens, verskaf
hierdie tesis insig oor die water toevoer en die ontwikkeling van sanitere geriewe in beide
nedersettings, waama die plaaslike ontwikkeling gesien word binne ' n breer nasionale
konteks. Derdens word daar deur middel van persoonlike vertellings gekyk na die opkoms
van etnografiese ingesteldhede soos fatalisme en hoop wanneer uiterste klimaatstoestande in
die gesig gestaar word. Die ervannge van die sosiaal gemarginaliseerde en die
onderverteenwoordigde groepe word uitgelig ten einde die liberate viering van
antropogeniese dorninasie oor die natuur uit te daag.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:sun/oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/80315 |
| Date | 03 1900 |
| Creators | Kruger, Nina |
| Contributors | Swart, Sandra S., Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of History. |
| Publisher | Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | en_ZA |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 147 p. : ill. |
| Rights | Stellenbosch University |
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