Exile Identity, Agency and Belonging in South Africa

The Masupatsela Generation

Zosa De Sas Kropiwnicki author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG

Published:13th May '18

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Exile Identity, Agency and Belonging in South Africa cover


This book examines the experiences of 49 second-generation exiles from South Africa. Using “generation” as an analytical concept, it investigates the relational, temporal and embodied nature of their childhoods in terms of kinship relations, life cycle, cohort development and memory-making. It reveals how child agents exploited the liminal nature of exile to negotiate their sense of identity, home and belonging, while also struggling over their position and power in formal Politics and informal politics of the everyday. It also reflects upon their political consciousness, identity and sense of civic duty on return to post-apartheid South Africa, and how this has led to the emergence of the Masupatsela generational cohort concerned with driving social and political change in South Africa.   

ISBN: 9783319851129

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 4746g

350 pages

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017