| Description |
1 online resource (216 pages) : illustrations, maps, graphs, photographs, tables. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Basel Namibia Studies Series,
2234-9561 ;
11
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Basel Namibia studies series ; 11.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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 10 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Squatter settlements -- Namibia -- Oshakati.
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Squatter settlements. |
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Namibia -- Oshakati. |
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Poverty -- Namibia -- Oshakati.
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Poverty. |
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Social networks -- Namibia -- Oshakati.
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Social networks. |
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Oshakati (Namibia) -- Social conditions.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Bollig, Michael, author of introduction, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tvedten, Inge. "As long as they don't bury me here" : social relations of poverty in a Namibian shantytown. Basel, Switzerland : Basler Afrika Bibliographien, ©2011 xiv, 197 pages Basel Namibia studies series ; 11 2234-9561 9783905758245 |
| ISBN |
9783905758443 (electronic book) |
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390575844X (electronic book) |
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9783905758245 |
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3905758245 |
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