| Title | Arenas of Contestation: Policy Processes and Land Tenure Reform in Post-Apartheid South Africa. |
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| Author | Fortin, Elizabeth. |
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| Subject | Post-apartheid |
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| Subject | Policy processes |
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| Subject | South Africa. |
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| Date | 2008 |
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| Type | Thesis and dissertation |
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| Format | Pdf |
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| Abstract | This thesis considers different groupings that have come together in their participation in the policy processes relating to tenure reform in post-apartheid South Africa. It is methodologically and theoretically grounded in Bourdieu&rsquo |
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| Abstract | s notion of cultural &lsquo |
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| Abstract | fields&rsquo |
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| Abstract | , spaces of ongoing contestation and struggle, but in which actors develop a shared &lsquo |
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| Abstract | habitus&rsquo |
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| Abstract | , an embodied history. In these land reform policies and law-making activities, individuals and groups from different fields &ndash |
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| Abstract | the bureaucratic, activist and legal &ndash |
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| Abstract | have interacted in their contestations relating to the legitimation of their forms of knowledge. The resulting compromises are illuminated by a case study of a village in the former Gazankulu &lsquo |
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| Abstract | homeland&rsquo |
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| Abstract | &ndash |
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| Abstract | a fourth &lsquo |
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| Abstract | cultural field&rsquo |
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| Abstract | . Rather than seeing these fields as bounded, the thesis recognises the influence of wider political discourses and materialities, or the wider &lsquo |
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| Abstract | field of power&rsquo |
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| Abstract | . In each of the four very different fields, as a result of a shared history, actors within them have developed practices based upon particular shared discourses, institutions and values. |
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| Identifier | http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_6486_1264557568 |
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