Growing Up in the New South Africa Childhood and Adolescence in Post-Apartheid Cape Town

by Bray, Rachel; Gooskens, Imke; Kahn, Lauren; Moses, Sue; Seekings, Jeremy

• ISBN13: 9780796923134
• ISBN10: 0796923132
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-07-01
• Publisher: HSRC Press

Summary

A compelling account of everyday life for the first generation of children and adolescents growing up in post-apartheid South Africa, this pioneering study is based on rich ethnographic research conducted in the outskirts of Cape Town in the Fish Hoek Valley, an area of affluent middle-class suburbs, semi-rural smallholdings, working-class housing estates, and semi-formal settlements of African residents. Findings show that the society has changed in profound ways, but many features of the apartheid era persist--material inequalities and poverty continue to shape everyday life, race and class continue to define neighborhoods, and "integration" is a sought-after but limited experience for the young.

Author Biography

Rachel Bray is the coeditor of Monitoring Child Well-Being: A South African Rights-Based Approach. Imke Gooskens is a social anthropologist. Lauren Kahn is a researcher at the Young Foundation in London. Sue Moses has a master's degree in development studies and works at the Children’s Institute at the University of Cape Town. Jeremy Seekings is a professor of political studies and sociology at the University of Cape Town who has held visiting appointments at Oxford, Yale, and Princeton Universities. He is the coauthor of Class, Race and Inequality in South Africa and The UDF: A History of the United Democratic Front in South Africa.