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Dunoon, iKasi lami (my township): young people and the performance of belonging in a South African township
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)
This study focuses on young people and how they etch a sense of belonging in the
cosmopolitan city of Cape Town, in multicultural, post-apartheid South Africa. The study mainly focuses on a group of performers known as ...
Cultural production and the struggle for authenticity : a Study of the Rastafarian student organization at the University of the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
This thesis explores the precarious nature of authenticity as it manifested itself in the activities of H.I.M. Society, the Rastafarian student organization at the University of the Western Cape. Ethnographic research was ...
Fashion, performance and the politics of belonging among Muslim women in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)
This thesis explores how the hijab fashion market has emerged in Cape Town and
how Capetonian Muslim women are appropriating hijab fashion as a means of
redefining themselves as Muslim South Africans instead of ‘Cape ...