- Title
- An ethnographic study of coloured women’s perceptions of violence in the Northern areas, Port Elizabeth
- Creator
- Welcome, Chantelle Leslie
- Subject
- Women, Coloured -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth
- Subject
- Violence -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth
- Subject
- Gender based violence
- Date Issued
- 2025-04
- Date
- 2025-04
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/72575
- Identifier
- vital:79239
- Description
- This study seeks to investigate coloured women’s perceptions of violence and seeks to add to the growing body of work on women and violence in the Northern areas of Port Elizabeth; namely Arcadia, Salt Lake, and Helenvale. In doing so, the study investigates the tactics women use to avoid participation in violence and crime and how they build and maintain resilience to violence. Crime and violence are normalised in the everyday life of residents of the Northern areas. Residents must contend with gangsterism and violence in public and domestic spaces. Violence is also pervasive in the everyday life of the youth. High unemployment rates, crime rates, and historical structural inequality are a few of the contributing factors to the occurrence and persistence of social deviance among the youth in these communities. This study seeks to ethnographically explore the perceptions of women in both domestic and public spaces by emphasizing the female perspective of everyday life within violent communities. The study investigates socio-economic issues such as violence, “broken” family structures, inequality, and poverty, and their contribution to pervasive violence within these communities. It seeks to explore the role that coloured women play in their dysfunctional communities and the tactics used to circumvent violence, especially violence in the form of gangsterism. Existing literature focuses on men and their participation in violence while women and their perceptions of violence fall into the backdrop of these dominant discourses. Therefore, this study attempts to rethink women’s (non-)involvement in violence and address their perceptions and tactics used to foster resilience to violence within their communities. The study also seeks to explore the positionality of women within their communities, and the factors which influence participation in or resilience to violence.
- Description
- Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, School of Governmental and Social Sciences, 2025
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (177 pages)
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Humanities
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
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