Cybergeo (May 1999)

Sociabilité, solidarité : culture, identité et vie urbaine dans les quartiers noirs du Cap (Afrique du Sud)

  • Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4000/cybergeo.4894

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The presence of Black people in South African cities has long been severely limited and controlled by the segregation and apartheid regimes. The spaces they were allocated were designed for those purposes. Nevertheless, new social forms and an original and dynamic urban culture is thriving today in the same spaces. This paper shows how family structures, internal organisation of houses, and the networks of associations achieved these transformations. The analysis of mental maps also confirms the fact that space in black neighbourhoods is most significantly a projection of social relations and networks.

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