- Title
- Intimate strangers: encountering the foreign in urban spaces
- Creator
- Seshoka, Thabo Jerry
- Subject
- Urbanization -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth -- History
- Subject
- Cities and towns -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth -- History Architecture -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth Cultural property -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth
- Date Issued
- 2017
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/13746
- Identifier
- vital:27304
- Description
- The year 2015 marked a significant year in South African History and it ignited a deep desire in the hearts of locals in Port Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan to question and engage with the city’s ambivalent heritage landscape and heritage discourse. The year 2015 was the year in which the country witnessed the rise community movements that called for the removal of Victorian and Apartheid era heritages across the country. The year also saw a rise in violent service delivery protests and a rise in the amount of xenophobic attacks across the county, including Port Elizabeth. In this thesis, positioned within the field of heritage studies (Anthropology) and employing the concept of the ubuhlanti (Kraal) as a tool to understand the former within a heritage framework. The thesis unpacks and demonstrate how the city centre of Port Elizabeth can be likened to the concept of the ubuhlanti. The ubuhlanti: an intimate community space, which has the potential to double up as an exclusionary space, excluding those who do not possess the necessary social capital to enter its centre.
- Format
- 211 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Arts
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
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