Gender and Colonialism - Lorena Rizzo

An increasing number of poor Southern Africans live in poverty-stricken urban slums or shantytowns. Focusing on four shantytowns in the northern Namibian town of Oshakati this book analyses the coping strategies of the poorest sections of such populations. The study is based on fieldwork conducted intermittently during a period of ten years. It combines theories of political economic and cultural structuration and of the material and cultural basis for social relations of inclusion and exclusion as practise. The poorest shanty dwellers are marginalised or excluded from vital urban and rural relationships and forced into social relations of poverty amongst themselves. Having experienced long-term processes of impoverishment the very poorest and most destitute in the shantytowns tend to give up improving their lives and act in ways that further undermine their position.

TITLE: Gender and Colonialism

AUTHOR: Lorena Rizzo

SKU: 9783905758245

PUBLISHER: Basler Afrika Bibliographien

DATE PUBLISHED: 30/11/2011

PLACE PUBLISHED: Switzerland

PAGES: 352

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 240 mm x 170 mm