Ambivalent geographies of encounter inside and around the fortified homes of middle class Whites in Cape Town

Schuermans, Nick

doi:10.1007/s10901-013-9352-7

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“…While Shortt and Hammett (2013) look at the health differences between shack dwellers and residents of formal housing, Shapurjee and Charlton (2013) focus on the interactions between publicly provided dwellings and the self-built shacks in their backyards. And while Schuermans (2013) is interested in practices of generosity between middle class Whites living in private houses and domestic workers living in poor neighbourhoods or informal settlements, Klug et al (2013) look at the possibility of affordable housing in middle-class projects by private developers. Because the different articles in this special issue discuss different aspects of the same questions about housing, spatial planning and urban development, we hope that a relational reading of the concrete case studies addressed in the different articles will stimulate readers to see the challenges and the opportunities affecting the built environment in South Africa from a cross-case perspective (cf.…”

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More than twenty years after the repeal of the Group Areas Act: housing, spatial planning and urban development in post-apartheid South Africa

Newton¹,

Schuermans

2013

J Hous and the Built Environ

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More than twenty years after the repeal of the Group Areas Act, South Africa is facing a number of challenges with regards to housing, spatial planning and urban development. Government institutions, scholars, NGO's and local communities have been looking for innovative ways to improve the housing conditions of all South Africans. With this special issue, we aim to demonstrate that international insights cannot only be relevant to understand and enrich South African cases, but that an in-depth analysis of the South African experiments can also be meaningful for academic analyses and political decisions in other parts of the world. In order to stimulate such a cross-fertilization, this article will briefly summarize the current situation in South Africa in the public housing sector, the private housing sector and the self-help approach. We will also introduce the eight papers of this special issue.

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“…From a completely different point of view, Schuermans (2013) looks at private houses as places of encounter. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 78 residents of two Capetonian neighborhoods, he looks into the complex geographies of encounter within the fortified houses of white, middle class South Africans.…”

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More than twenty years after the repeal of the Group Areas Act: housing, spatial planning and urban development in post-apartheid South Africa

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Schuermans

2013

J Hous and the Built Environ

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“…Secondly, by looking at various circumstances in which migrant encounters take place, it illustrates that home and workplace, relatively underresearched until recently (e.g. Harris and Valentine, forthcoming;Schuermans, 2013), are indeed likely to be sites of meaningful (migrant) contact with difference. Finally, in attempting to understand the complex nature of migrant values and attitudes, the article 28 considers what migrants 'bring' to encounters.…”

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“…Magda's narrative is also interesting, because it contributes to and extends the understanding of geographies of home and/or intimate encounters which remain largely underexplored (Schuermans, 2013;Valentine et al, 2014). In particular, it suggests that such issues as family roles, home-making and raising children are prone to fuel tensions and mobilize prejudiced discourses.…”

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“…However, some significant spaces of contact with difference such as family and home, 6 workplace or leisure spaces -although addressed in some publications (e.g. Cook et al, 2011b;Harris and Valentine, forthcoming;Schuermans, 2013;Valentine et al, 2014;Wilson, 2013) -remain underexplored and require more scholarly attention, in particular with regard to migrants.…”

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Beyond openness and prejudice: The consequences of migrant encounters with difference

Gawlewicz

2015

Environ Plan A

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This article investigates the consequences of migrant encounters with difference in terms of ethnicity, religion, class, social status, sexuality and gender. While the notion of encounter has attracted much academic attention, in particular with regard to multiculture, social diversity and the challenge of living with difference, many of these debates tend to, oddly enough, overlook migrant populations. Furthermore, although they acknowledge that significant numbers of migrants to diverse societies such as the UK originate from much less diverse communities, they rarely reflect on the intricacies of production of difference in these respective places. Recognising these limitations, this article outlines the consequences of encounters with difference in the context of migration from Poland (a relatively homogeneous postcommunist society) to the UK (a 'superdiverse' post-colonial society). The article draws upon extensive empirical material collected among Polish post-2004 migrants to the Northern English city of Leeds. It establishes that migrant encounters result in development, revision or change of values and attitudes towards difference. This may involve a range of personal stances including favourable and prejudiced attitudes as well as, most likely, 'complicated' and 'in-between' responses.

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A tale of three villages: Local housing policies, well‐being and encounters between residents and immigrants

Ulceluse

Haartsen

2021

Population Space and Place

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This article examines how the location, function and quality of immigrant accommodation facilities, regulated by local housing policies, shape the perceived effects of immigration on the well‐being of residents and immigrants in three villages in the Netherlands. Drawing on semistructured interviews with local government representatives, residents and Romanian and Polish immigrants, we show how the different locations of the immigrant accommodations condition social interactions between residents and immigrants and, in this process, reinforce social hierarchies and inequalities. We illustrate how, sometimes unintentionally, spatial policies prepare the stage for conflicts to arise between immigrants and residents, shaping the latter's experiences of migration irrespective of the behaviour of the former. For immigrants, the location of their accommodation sets the limits to what they can do in terms of private behaviour and social relations, exposing them to social control and evaluation.

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Ambivalent geographies of encounter inside and around the fortified homes of middle class Whites in Cape Town

Cited by 22 publications

References 28 publications

More than twenty years after the repeal of the Group Areas Act: housing, spatial planning and urban development in post-apartheid South Africa

More than twenty years after the repeal of the Group Areas Act: housing, spatial planning and urban development in post-apartheid South Africa

Beyond openness and prejudice: The consequences of migrant encounters with difference

A tale of three villages: Local housing policies, well‐being and encounters between residents and immigrants

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