Surviving Gangs, Violence and Racism in Cape Town : Ghetto Chameleons

Marie Rosenkrantz (NSCR Lindegaard

ISBN 10: 0415818915 / ISBN 13: 9780415818919

Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd Nov 2017, 2017

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Neuware - Cape Town has some of the highest figures of violent crime in the world but how is it that young men avoid and enact physical aggression and navigate stressful and dangerous situations This book offers an ethnographic study of young men in Cape Town and considers why violence occurs so often in South Africa. Lindegaard breaks away from previous studies looking at inequality and differences and instead focuses on practices and interaction between the young men she studied. The book focuses on commonplace forms of violence such as fights and street stabbings and demonstrates how it is not meaningless, but instead relational.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Surviving Gangs, Violence and Racism in Cape Town : Ghetto Chameleons
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Nov 2017
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415818915
• ISBN 13: 9780415818919
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 241W x 164H x 23D millimeters 241 millimeters width by 164 millimeters height by 23 millimeters depth
• Weight: 610 grams

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Synopsis

Cape Town has some of the highest figures of violent crime in the world, but how is it that young men avoid and enact physical aggression and navigate stressful and dangerous situations?

Surviving Gangs, Violence and Racism in Cape Town offers an ethnographic study of young men in Cape Town and considers how they stay safe in when growing up in post-apartheid South Africa. Breaking away from previous studies looking at structural inequality and differences, this unique book focuses instead on the practices and interactions between 47 young men, and what they do to become a "ghetto chameleon". Indeed, exploring in detail what young men do to survive conflicts and what is at stake, Lindegaard depicts how they must become flexible in who they are in order to fit in and be safe when they move between "black" or "coloured" township areas and the "white" suburbs of Cape Town.

Opening the reader’s mind to the relational aspect of violence, Surviving Gangs, Violence and Racism in Cape Town will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in fields such as African Studies, Qualitative Criminology, Sociology, Gang Violence and Anthropology.

About the Author

Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard is a senior researcher at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR) and an associate professor at the department of Sociology of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.