Melancholia of freedom social life in an Indian township in South Africa

The end of apartheid in 1994 signaled a moment of freedom and a promise of a nonracial future. With this promise came an injunction: define yourself as you truly are, as an individual, and as a community. Almost two decades later it is clear that it was less the prospect of that future than the habi...

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Main Author:	Hansen, Thomas Blom
Format:	eBook Book
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton Princeton University Press 2012
Edition:	1
Subjects:	1HFMS Activism Africa African National Congress African Renaissance Afrikaans Afrikaners Anthropology Anti-Indian sentiment Apartheid Bollywood Career Cato Manor Chatsworth (Durban, South Africa) Chatsworth (Durban, South Africa) > Race relations Chatsworth (Durban, South Africa) > Religion Chatsworth (Durban, South Africa) > Social conditions Christianity Colored Community Cultural Cultural identity Culture of India Discrimination & Race Relations Domestic violence Durban Durban (South Africa) Durban (South Africa) > Race relations Durban (South Africa) > Religion Durban (South Africa) > Social conditions East Indians East Indians > South Africa > Durban Embarrassment Everyday life Extended family Freedom Governance Hindu Hinduism HISTORY HISTORY / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa Household Ideology Indenture Indian South Africans Individualism Injunction Institution JFSL1 JHMC Johannesburg John Comaroff Kwaito KwaZulu-Natal Laborer Mahatma Gandhi Masculinity Middle class Minority Front Modernity Mosque Narrative Natal Indian Congress Nuclear family Pastor Personhood Police Police officer Politician Politics Popular culture Popularity Populism Race relations Racial segregation Racism Religion Republic of South Africa Rhetoric Robbery Sharma Shopping mall Social conditions Social life Social order SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations Social Science Research Council SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social Sociology South South Africa Sovereignty Soweto Subjectivity Tablighi Jamaat The Other Hand Tourism Unfreedom Urban space Veeran Working class Writing Youth culture Durban South Africa Durban (South Africa) Chatsworth (Durban, South Africa) African Sovereignty Unfreedom Pastor Johannesburg Mosque Populism John Comaroff Institution Bollywood Tourism Politician Domestic violence Narrative Hindu Veeran Ideology Kwaito Minority Front Activism African Renaissance Household Hinduism KwaZulu-Natal Indian South Africans Apartheid Newspaper Soweto Injunction Subjectivity Cultural identity Cato Manor Masculinity Popular culture Culture of India Laborer Afrikaans Anti-Indian sentiment African National Congress Indenture Police officer Nuclear family Shopping mall Mahatma Gandhi Extended family Robbery Racial segregation Rhetoric Social Science Research Council Personhood Social order Working class Popularity Everyday life Youth culture Christianity Police Governance Embarrassment Middle class Colored Sharma Tablighi Jamaat Modernity Afrikaners The Other Hand Writing Politics Racism Natal Indian Congress Career
ISBN:	0691152969, 9780691152967, 9781400842612, 1400842611, 9780691152950, 0691152950
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