Overview
- Is highly interdisciplinary, drawing on Anthropology, Sociology, Development Studies, Historical Studies, Political Science, Gender Studies and Childhood Studies
- Adds value to the ongoing debate about 'liberation' and what it means to be 'South African'
- Makes a theoretical contribution to issues related to life course, childhood, gender and migration
- Will aid development practitioners seeking to protect and assist children confronted by violence and forced migration
- Challenges preconceived notions of victimhood, risk, resilience and trauma
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies on Children and Development (PSCD)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book examines the experiences of 49 second-generation exiles from South Africa. Using “generation” as an analytical concept, it investigates the relational, temporal and embodied nature of their childhoods in terms of kinship relations, life cycle, cohort development and memory-making. It reveals how child agents exploited the liminal nature of exile to negotiate their sense of identity, home and belonging, while also struggling over their position and power in formal Politics and informal politics of the everyday. It also reflects upon their political consciousness, identity and sense of civic duty on return to post-apartheid South Africa, and how this has led to the emergence of the Masupatsela generational cohort concerned with driving social and political change in South Africa.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Zosa De Sas Kropiwnicki is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Exile Identity, Agency and Belonging in South Africa
Book Subtitle: The Masupatsela Generation
Authors: Zosa De Sas Kropiwnicki
Series Title: Palgrave Studies on Children and Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53276-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-53275-2Published: 24 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85112-9Published: 13 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-53276-9Published: 13 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2947-5724
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5732
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 350
Topics: African Politics, Migration, Development Theory, Conflict Studies, Children, Youth and Family Policy, Development and Social Change