Dr. Bradley Rink

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Position:	Lecturer
Department:	Geography,Environmental Studies & Tourism
Faculty:	Faculty of Arts
Qualifications:	BA (St. Johns University, USA); MA (University of Vermont, USA); PhD (UCT)
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More about me:	here, and here
Tel:	021 959 2626
Fax:	021 959 3422
Email:	brink@uwc.ac.za

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Community as utopia: Reflections on De Waterkant
(Springer, 2008) Rink, Bradley M.
This paper will reflect on research currently in progress in Cape Town's De Waterkant neighbourhood�an area also known as Cape Town's 'gay village'. This paper engages the literature of utopia as a framework of analysis for interrogating the performance of community�while at the same time problematising the terms "community" and "utopia" upon which much geographical description of the area is based. This research argues that both 'comforting' and 'unsettling' relational achievements amongst the human and non-human actors in De Waterkant function as building blocks of real or imagined community and further recognises multiple tensions that affect the formation of community and the pursuit of utopia in the South African urban context.