Conviviality in Bellvill. An Ethnography of Space, Place, Mobility and Being in Urban South Africa
ISBN: 9789956792863
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / African Books Collective
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Apartheid; Rural-urban migration; Migration Internal;

This book provides insight into the experiences of mobility and migration in contemporary South Africa, contributing to a field of literature about multiculturalism and urban public space in globalizing cities. It takes into consideration the greater international political and local socio-economic factors that drive migration, relationships and conviviality, and how they are intertwined in the everyday narrative of �insiders� and �outsiders�. The Bellville central business district demonstrates the realities of interconnected local and global hierarchies of citizenship and belonging and how they emerge in a world of accelerated mobility. The book further demonstrates how the emergence of conviviality in everyday public life represents a critical field for contemplating contemporary notions of human rights, citizenship and belonging.


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