Legacies of Forced Removals in South Africa: Children and Childhoods in Temporary Relocation Areas in the Western Cape

by Efua Tembisa Prah

Overview

This book contributes to an international literature on children and childhood studies by providing a variety of lenses through which we can further explore children’s reflections about the worlds they inhabit. Through documentation of the reflections of life in a temporary relocation camp of six children, the research findings show the slippages in governance in post-apartheid South Africa, revealing howover-determining structures of oppression, shaped by histories of violence remain as hauntings in the lived experience of those on the margins of the state. In this way, the book offers testament to the lasting impact apartheid has left on South Africa’s populations. The stories of these children offer testament to a fluidity of identifications and repressions that criss-cross notions of what it is to be a citizen, a child, youth or adult in sites of frequent forced mobility.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781839982668
Publisher:	Anthem Press
Publication date:	03/04/2025
Series:	Anthem Advances in African Cultural Studies
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Efua Prah is an Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of Johannesburg. Her scholarly interests range widely, and include anthropological theorisations in critical black studies, postcolonial studies and the emergent correlations between history and reproductive justice. She is Disciplinary Editor in Anthropology for the University of Johannesburg Press and Co-Editor of Anthropology Southern Africa.

Table of Contents

Abstract; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Picture Profiles of the Children; Chapter One – Moving Beyond; Chapter Two – Meeting the Children; Chapter Three – Identity; Chapter Four – Displacement; Chapter Five – Body Talk; Chapter Six – Theatre on the Move; Chapter Seven – Gevaarlik! (dangerous!).