Essays about: "Post-Apartheid"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 34 essays containing the word Post-Apartheid.

1. 11. Racism in environmental communication about plastic pollution

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

   Author : Angelina Elander; [2020]
   Keywords : environmental racism; plastic pollution; socioecological relations; South Africa; narrative strategies;

   Abstract : This thesis contributes to the knowledge formation of how environmental racism is covertly transformed in environmental communication about plastic pollution and how that affects socioecological relations in Kwazulu Natal, South Africa. Through analysis rhetorical and narrative strategies of the communication by the NGO Durbanites Against Plastic Pollution and by observing the Durbanites it has been revealed how aversive racism is transformed within the context of plastic pollution. READ MORE

3. 12. The right to the city in post-apartheid South Africa: Abahlali baseMjondolo’s struggle for land, housing and dignity

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

   Author : Simon Johansson; [2019-10-01]
   Keywords : Abahlali baseMjondolo; the right to the city; citizenship; collective memory; dignity;

   Abstract : Fifty percent of the world’s population live in cities today, but predictions of the sustained urbanization trend estimates that this number will increase to seventy percent by 2050. Meanwhile, the consequences of the urban divide and the demarcations between people in the increasingly fragmented societies could be demonstrated in the case of South Africa. READ MORE

4. 13. Wandering away from apartheid : A study on interracial bridging social capital in South African small-town society

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)

   Author : Agnes-Cecilia Haglund; [2019]
   Keywords : Bridging; Social capital; Interracial interaction; Interracial integration; Desegregation; Civil society; Equality; Equal value; Trust; Cooperation; South Africa; Post-apartheid; Racism; Culture; Anthropology; Political Science; Liberal democracy; Prosperity;

   Abstract : Trust, cooperation and equal value. The purpose of the current study has been to present evidence of interracial bridging social capital between groups and individuals in South African small-town society. READ MORE

5. 14. Perspectives of Transracial Adoption: a Case Study of South Africa

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Carolina Nielsen; [2019]
   Keywords : South Africa; post-apartheid; transracial adoption; racial segregation;

   Abstract : South Africa has been under apartheid regime characterized by racial segregation. As a result, transracial adoption only became legal in 1991. The aim of this thesis is to analyze how transracial adoption has been perceived in South Africa. READ MORE

6. 15. Connected on a heart level : An anthropological discussion about interracial relationships in post-apartheid South Africa

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

   Author : Elin Benedictsson; [2018]
   Keywords : race; post-apartheid; interracial relationships; racial thinking; racial order; South Africa; power relations; New South Africa; mixed marriage;

   Abstract : Throughout history South Africa has been dominated by a white race group and during the era of apartheid racial segregation was encouraged as well as an idea of racial order was established through institutionalised racism. Marriage across racial borders was prohibited according to the Mixed Marriages Act. READ MORE