Reflections on Identity in Four African Cities 1st Edition by Philippe Gervais-Lambony, Simon Bekker, Anne Leilde ISBN 978-1920051402 ‎ 1920051406

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ISBN 10:  1920051406

ISBN 13:  978-1920051402  ‎

Author:  Philippe Gervais-Lambony,  Simon Bekker, Anne Leilde

Identity has become the watchword of our times. In sub-Saharan Africa, this certainly appears to be true and for particular reasons. Africa is urbanising rapidly, cross-border migration streams are swelling and globalising influences sweep across the continent. Africa is also facing up to the challenge of nurturing emergent democracies in which citizens often feel torn between older traditional and newer national loyalties. Accordingly, collective identities are deeply coloured by recent urban as well as international experience and are squarely located within identity politics where reconciliation is required between state nation-building strategies and sub-national affiliations. They are also fundamentally shaped by the growing inequality and the poverty found on this continent. These themes are explored by an international set of scholars in two South African and two Francophone cities. The relative importance to urban residents of race, class and ethnicity but also of work, space and language are compared in these cities. This volume also includes a chapter investigating the emergence of a continental African identity. A recent report of the Office of the South African President claims that a strong national identity is emerging among its citizens, and that race and ethnicity are waning whilst a class identity is in the ascendance. The evidence and analyses within this volume serve to gauge the extent to which such claims ring true, in what everyone knows is a much more complex and shifting terrain of shared meanings than can ever be captured by such generalisations.

Table of contents: 

Part 1: Social Identity: Construction, Research and Analysis

• Identity Studies in Africa: Notes on Theory and Method – Charles Puttergill & Anne Leildé

Part 2: Profiles of Four Cities

• Cape Town and Johannesburg – Izak van der Merwe & Arlene Davids

• Demographic Profiles of Libreville and Lome – Steve Ndinga-Koumba Binza

Part 3: Space and Identity

• Space and Identity: Thinking Through Some South African Examples – Philippe Gervais-Lambony

6. Domestic Workers, Job Access, and Work Identities in Cape Town and Johannesburg
Claire Bénit & Marianne Morange

7. When Shacks Ain’t Chic! Planning for ‘Difference’ in Post-Apartheid Cape Town
Steven Robins

Part 4: Class, Race, Language and Identity

8. Discourses on a Changing Urban Environment: Reflections of Middle-Class White People in Johannesburg
Charles Puttergill

9. Class, Race, and Language in Cape Town and Johannesburg
Simon Bekker & Anne Leildé

10. The Importance of Language Identities to Black Residents of Cape Town and Johannesburg
Robert One

11. The Importance of Language Identities in Lomé and Libreville
Simon Bekker & Anne Leildé

Part 5: The African Continent

12. What is an African? Narratives from Urban South Africa, Gabon and Togo
Anne Leildé

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