| Exile Identity, Agency and Belonging in South Africa: The Masupatsela Generation 2017 Edition Contributor(s): de Sas Kropiwnicki, Zosa (Author) |
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ISBN: 3319532758 ISBN-13: 9783319532752 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $113.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | World - African - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - Social Science | Developing & Emerging Countries |
| Dewey: 304.8 |
| Series: Palgrave Studies on Children and Development |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.30 lbs) 350 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |