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 habits and horizons of
anxious life in racially defined enclaves that determined
postapartheid freedom. In this book, Thomas Blom Hansen offers an
in-depth analysis of the uncertainties, dreams, and anxieties that
have accompanied postapartheid freedoms in Chatsworth, a formerly
Indian township in Durban. Exploring five decades of township life,
Hansen tells the stories of ordinary Indians whose lives were
racialized and framed by the township, and how these residents
domesticated and inhabited this urban space and its institutions,
during apartheid and after.
Hansen demonstrates the complex and ambivalent nature of
ordinary township life. While the ideology of apartheid was widely
rejected, its practical institutions, from urban planning to
houses, schools, and religious spaces, were embraced in order to
remake the community. Hansen describes how the racial segmentation
of South African society still informs daily life, notions of race,
personhood, morality, and religious ethics. He also demonstrates
the force of global religious imaginings that promise a universal
and inclusive community amid uncertain lives and futures in the
postapartheid nation-state.
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