Growing up in the new South Africa
Subtitle: childhood and adolescence in post-apartheid Cape Town
By: Rachel Bray ... [et al.].
Publisher: HSRC Press; Human Sciences Research Council
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cape Town
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780796923134
Subjects: Child development; Apartheid; Child welfare; Post-apartheid era
Description: Growing up in the new South Africa is based on rich ethnographic research in one area of Cape Town, together with an analysis of quantitative data for the city as a whole. The authors, all based at the time in the Centre for Social Science Research at the University of Cape Town, draw on varied disciplinary backgrounds to reveal a world in which young people's lives are shaped by an often adverse environment and the agency that they themselves exercise. This book should be read by anyone, whether inside or outside of the university, interested in the well-being of young South Africans and the social realities of post-apartheid South Africa.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-349) and index.