Community as utopia: Reflections on De Waterkant

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dc.contributor.authorRink, Bradley M.
dc.date.accessioned20/10/2015 10:13
dc.date.available20/10/2015 10:13
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en_US
dc.identifier.citationRink, B.M. (2008). Community as utopia: Reflections on De Waterkant. Urban Forum, Vol. 19(2): 205-220.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1015-3802
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/1813
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12132-008-9031-z
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherSpringeren_US
dc.rightsThis is the author version of the the final publication that is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12132-008-9031-z.
dc.source.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12132-008-9031-z
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectCape Townen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectUrban areasen_US
dc.subjectUrban landscapeen_US
dc.subjectCommunity engagementen_US
dc.subjectCommunityen_US
dc.subjectCommunity-centred designen_US
dc.titleCommunity as utopia: Reflections on De Waterkanten_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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