(Dis)-empowered whiteness: an ethnography of the King Edward Park

Description

A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Johannesburg, March 2017 / This thesis focuses on group of poorer white South Africans who have settled, informally and illegally, in a former caravan park on the West Rand of Johannesburg, The King Edward Park. It is enthographic study that explores the socio-economic genealogies of the poorer white residents of the park, the everyday practices of making livelihoods, and attempt to produce ideologies of South African blackness. [Abbreviated Abstract. Open document to view full version] / MT 2018

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1. Kruger, Christi Louise (2017) (Dis)-empowered whiteness: an ethnography of the king Edward Park, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, <https://hdl.handle.net/10539/24136>
2. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/24136

Tags

Poor whites--South Africa

Whites--South Africa

Poor--South Africa

South Africa--Economic condition

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/24136
Date	January 2017
Creators	Kruger, Christi Louise
Source Sets	South African National ETD Portal
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	Thesis
Format	Online resource (iii, 278 pages), application/pdf