| Surviving Gangs, Violence and Racism in Cape Town: Ghetto Chameleons Contributor(s): Lindegaard, Marie Rosenkrantz (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415818915 ISBN-13: 9780415818919 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $190.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Criminology - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 305.242 |
| LCCN: 2017030166 |
| Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography |
| Physical Information: 290 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Cape Town has some of the highest figures of violent crime in the world, but how is it that young men avoid and enact physical aggression and navigate stressful and dangerous situations? Surviving Gangs, Violence and Racism in Cape Town offers an ethnographic study of young men in Cape Town and considers how they stay safe in when growing up in post-apartheid South Africa. Breaking away from previous studies looking at structural inequality and differences, this unique book focuses instead on the practices and interactions between 47 young men, and what they do to become a "ghetto chameleon". Indeed, exploring in detail what young men do to survive conflicts and what is at stake, Lindegaard depicts how they must become flexible in who they are in order to fit in and be safe when they move between "black" or "coloured" township areas and the "white" suburbs of Cape Town. Opening the reader's mind to the relational aspect of violence, Surviving Gangs, Violence and Racism in Cape Town will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in fields such as African Studies, Qualitative Criminology, Sociology, Gang Violence and Anthropology. |