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Eating from One Pot

The dynamics of survival in poor South African households

By: Sarah Mosoetsa

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Eating from One Pot

The dynamics of survival in poor South African households

By: Sarah Mosoetsa

As poverty and unemployment deepen in contemporary South Africa, the burning question becomes, how do the poor survive? Eating from One Pot provides a compelling answer. Based on intensive fieldwork, it shows how many African households are on the brink of collapse. That they keep going at all can largely be attributed to the struggles of older women against poverty. They are the fulcrum on which household survival turns. This book describes how households in two different areas in KwaZulu-Natal are sites of both stability and conflict. As one of the interviewees put it: ‘We eat from one pot and should always help each other.’ Yet the stability of family networks is becoming fragile because of the enormous burden placed on them by unemployment and unequal power relations. Through careful analysis, the experiences of survival are discussed in relation to the restructuring of the country's welfare and social policies, and the extension of social grants. Mosoetsa argues that these policies shape the livelihoods that people pursue in order to survive under desperate conditions, but fail to address the root causes of poverty and inequality.

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NYU Press

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186814786X

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9781868147861

Living the urban periphery

Infrastructure, everyday life and economic change in African city-regions

By: Paula Meth,Sarah Charlton,Tom Goodfellow,Alison Todes

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Living the urban periphery

Infrastructure, everyday life and economic change in African city-regions

By: Paula Meth,Sarah Charlton,Tom Goodfellow,Alison Todes

The edges of cities are increasingly understood as places of dynamism and change, but there is little research on African urban peripheries, the nature of building, growth, investment and decline that is shaping them and how these are lived. This co-authored monograph draws on findings from an extensive comparative study on Ethiopia and South Africa, in conversation with a related study on Ghana. It examines African urban peripheries through a dual focus on the experiences of living in these changing contexts, alongside the logics driving their transformation. Through its conceptualisation and application of five ‘logics of periphery’, it offers unique, contextually-informed insights into the generic processes shaping urban peripheries, and the variable ways in which these are playing out in contemporary Africa for those living the peripheries.

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Manchester University Press

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1526171201

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9781526171207

Eating from One Pot

The dynamics of survival in poor South African households

By: Sarah Mosoetsa

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Eating from One Pot

The dynamics of survival in poor South African households

By: Sarah Mosoetsa

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NYU Press

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186814786X

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9781868147861

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Eating from One Pot

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