Exile Identity, Agency and Belonging in South Africa : The Masupatsela Generation

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Exile Identity, Agency and Belonging in South Africa : The Masupatsela Generation

Title remainder

The Masupatsela Generation

Statement of responsibility

by Zosa De Sas Kropiwnicki

Creator

• De Sas Kropiwnicki, Zosa

Subject

• Economic development
• Emigration and immigration
• Peace
• Political science
• Social change
• Social policy
• Africa -- Politics and government

Language

eng

Summary

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.--

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• Palgrave Studies on Children and Development
• Springer eBooks, Political Science and International Studies Collection

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Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• Springer eBooks
• Palgrave Studies on Children and Development