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Street life under a roof - Youth homelessness in South Africa (Paperback)
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Street life under a roof - Youth homelessness in South Africa (Paperback)
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Point Place stands near the city centre of Durban, South Africa.
Condemned and off the grid, the five-storey apartment building is
nonetheless home to a hundred-plus teenagers and young adults
marginalised by poverty and chronic unemployment. Emily Margaretten
draws on ten years of up-close fieldwork to explore the distinct
cultural universe of the Point Place community. Her sensitive
investigations reveal how young men and women draw on customary
notions of respect and support to forge an ethos of connection and
care that allows them to live far richer lives than ordinarily
assumed. Her discussion of gender dynamics highlights terms like
nakana - to care about or take notice of another - that young women
and men use to construct `outside' and `inside' boyfriends and
girlfriends and to communicate notions of trust. Challenging the
idea that Point Place's residents need `rehabilitation',
Margaretten argues that these young men and women want love, secure
homes and the means to provide for their dependents - in short, the
same hopes and aspirations mirrored across South African society.
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