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Survival in the 'dumping grounds' : a social history of apartheid relocation / by Laura Evans.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Evans, Laura (Laura K.), author.
- Series:
- African history ; volume 8.
- African history, 2211-1441 ; volume 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Forced migration.
- History.
- Homelands (South Africa)--History.
- Homelands (South Africa).
- Ciskei (South Africa)--History--20th century.
- Ciskei (South Africa).
- Ciskei (South Africa)--Social conditions--20th century.
- Forced migration--South Africa--History--20th century.
- Apartheid--South Africa--History.
- Apartheid.
- South Africa.
- Physical Description:
- x, 302 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Rethinking relocation in apartheid South Africa
- Part 1. Regimes of relocation
- Apartheid, the bantustans and the end of empire
- Peace, population and colonial development, c.1920-1945
- The 'late colonial' apartheid state
- Cold war in southern Africa: villagisation and counterinsurgency
- Regimes of relocation in the Ciskei
- The Cape as apartheid test case
- The relocation regime
- Villagisation and repression
- Decolonisation, repatriation and resettlement
- The expansion of Sada and Ilinge
- White farmers and relocation
- Part 2. Repertoires of relocation
- Dislocation and disrupted livelihoods: removals, evictions and banishments
- The coercive relocation regime
- The biopolitics of neglect
- Displacement and marginal livelihoods
- Farm evictions: enclosure and dispossession
- Urban removals: dislocation and deprivation
- Political banishment: surveillance and isolation
- 'We were starving. And we survived': gender, domesticity and displacement
- Farm dwellers and relocation: gender, generation and agrarian change
- Farm labour and agrarian change
- Gender, generation and changing men
- Changing livelihoods and the transformation of aspirations
- Migration, male breadwinners and masculinity
- Gender, autonomy and impoverishment: the paradoxical impacts of relocation
- Part 3. Place, space and power
- 'We came from different places': displacement and place-making
- Forced removals and 'communities of memory'
- The emergence of underground networks in Sada and Ilinge
- Churches, spirituality and sociability
- Poverty, survival and reciprocity
- Relocation and the state: relations of rule
- Territoriality and the gendered disciplinary project of the BAD, c. 1963-71
- Ethnic politics, clientelism and coercion under Ciskei, c.1971-80.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-291) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9789004388277
- 9004388273
- OCLC:
- 1085699135
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