Gender and Colonialism: A History of Kaoko in North-Western Namibia 1870s - 1950s - Softcover

Rizzo, Lorena

 
9783905758245: Gender and Colonialism: A History of Kaoko in North-Western Namibia 1870s - 1950s
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3905758245 ISBN 13: 9783905758245
Publisher: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2011

Synopsis

An increasing number of poor Southern Africans live in poverty-stricken urban slums or shantytowns. Focusing on four shantytowns in the northern Namibian town of Oshakati, this book analyses the coping strategies of the poorest sections of such populations. The study is based on fieldwork conducted intermittently during a period of ten years. It combines theories of political, economic and cultural structuration, and of the material and cultural basis for social relations of inclusion and exclusion as practise. The poorest shanty dwellers are marginalised or excluded from vital urban and rural relationships and forced into social relations of poverty amongst themselves. Having experienced long-term processes of impoverishment, the very poorest and most destitute in the shantytowns tend to give up improving their lives and act in ways that further undermine their position.

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Publisher
Basler Afrika Bibliographien
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3905758245
ISBN 13 
9783905758245
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
352