SOCIETY
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CAPE TOWN RESEARCH
1990-2004
G H Pirie
CONTENTS
Introduction 2
CULTURE 6
ECONOMY 9
EDUCATION 11
ENVIRONMENT 15
GOVERNANCE 20
HEALTH 22
HOUSING 30
IDENTITY 34
METROPOLIS 36
SERVICES 46
SOCIETY 47
TOURISM 53
TRANSPORT 54
VIOLENCE 55
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SOCIETY
Cape Town
October 2004
Introduction
This bibliography about Cape Town is a record of research published since 1990. The list of over 1,100 publications features books, papers in academic journals, and completed university theses.
This first Cape Town bibliography of the new century lists research that coincides with the first decade of majority rule in South Africa, in the western Cape, and in metropolitan Cape Town. It also covers the four previous years when the end was in sight for the apartheid system that had fundamentally shaped the city, its institutions, and its residents’ lives for forty years.
The listing here complements Terri Strauss’ 1989 bibliography ‘Cape Town and the Cape Peninsula post-1806: a Working Bibliography’ (Occasional Paper No 15, Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town). It follows Jeremy Seekings’ 1992 bibliography ‘South Africa's townships 1980-1991’ (Occasional Paper No 16, Department of Sociology, University of Stellenbosch: 236 pp) that deals mostly with civic organisations and township political protest in and beyond Cape Town.
This 2004 bibliography includes a few unpublished seminar papers and research reports. It is not a comprehensive list of these, or of the hundreds of official reports to and by national, provincial and local governments. Unlike the scattered academic material, these items are generally quite easily traced through the relevant government department or state library. The bibliography does not contain ‘grey’ material (short-life magazine and newspaper articles) published about Cape Town. There is no listing in this bibliography of general interest articles about Cape Town such as those in travel magazines, hobbyists magazines, in-house corporate magazines, or ‘industry’ specific and ‘professional body’ magazines.
The decision about what to include in any bibliography, and what to omit, is difficult. This list certainly does not contain every piece of scholarly research conducted in and about Cape Town since 1990. Instead it should be regarded as an indication of the volume and kind of research undertaken. As a register of completed research the bibliography is a useful starting point for new research, for new researchers, and for researchers new to Cape Town. Users will find out the topics that have attracted most interest, and will see gaps in research. The bibliography provides leads to the work and names of active researchers whose interests, insights and skills can be followed and tapped in future.
Date limits are necessary in any bibliographic exercise, but they do have an arbitrary element; the 1990 cut off date, for example, excludes some fascinating work done in the late 1980s. Happily, much of this work is cited in the research listed here. As regards topics, research has not been included that just happens to have taken place in Cape Town and that does not contain information about the place itself or offer insights into the city’s potential and its problems. The city is home to many researchers for whom the city is an incidental backdrop rather than a crucial element. The fact of being in Cape Town is not always relevant to technical research in medicine, law, psychology and social work, for example.
There has been a considerable amount of research into issues related to and affecting Cape Town since 1990. The number of journal articles (482), theses (423), research reports and seminar papers (94), chapters (72), books (44) and edited books (13) listed here comprise a considerable stock of knowledge about the city, its places, people and problems. Advisers, decision-makers, practitioners and researchers can draw on a wealth of information and insights. Armed with a better view of what research has been done, and where the gaps are, leaders may be able to influence the kind of work done in future. Researchers should be able to target their efforts better, to build on what is already known, and to spend less time hunting for completed work.
Scope
The bibliography reflects research into issues that impinge on working in, living in and visiting Cape Town. The most relevant material about culture, education, employment, the environment, city management and planning, health care, society, transport and tourism derives from the social sciences. Research in the natural sciences, engineering, economics, law and medicine has been omitted where its reference to conditions and events in Cape Town is incidental.
Most of the theses indexed are at Masters level or above. Honours-level research is less well catalogued and less readily available, and relatively few items have been included. As a general guide to the scope of higher degree research, Masters-level research is smaller in scope than Doctoral-level work. Many Masters dissertations are now done as part of a coursework-based degree, and the research is narrower in scope and briefer than for a full Masters theses. The two kinds of theses are not generally flagged in catalogues, but page length (where recorded) offers some guide to the scope and depth of the research.
Presentation
The bibliography of 1,138 items contains reference items arranged alphabetically within 14 categories. The categorisation groups similar research for ease of consultation. Many pieces of research could be classified in two or even more categories, and users should look for items in more than just one section of the bibliography. The kind of detailed research topics that occur in each of the 14 themes are listed below together with a count of the number of bibliographic items in each theme (Table 1).
THEME
/Topics
/No of references
CULTURE / Archaeology; Arts; Heritage; Museums; Music; Performance; Ritual; / 71ECONOMY / Consumers; Commerce; Employment; Poverty; Trade; Work / 43
EDUCATION / Language & literacy; Learners; Schools; Training; Universities / 80
ENVIRONMENT / Beaches; Ecology; Energy; Forests; Pollution; Recreation; Rivers; Water / 93
GOVERNANCE / Urban management; Unification; / 34
HEALTH / Accidents; Alcohol; Clinics; Drugs; Hospitals; HIV/AIDS; Mental health; Mortality; / 175
HOUSING / Public housing; Squatting; Community organising / 72
IDENTITY / Community; Ethnicity; Gender; Sexuality / 38
METROPOLIS / CBD; Gentrification; Land; Landscape; Planning; Removals; Revitalisation; Segregation; Suburbs; Townships; Urban history; / 207
SERVICES / Libraries; Non-payment; Sewage; Water; / 20
SOCIETY / Alcohol; Children; Churches; Community; Drugs; Elderly; Ethnicity; Law; Migration; Refugees; Religion; Resistance; Women; Youth / 124
TOURISM / Sights; Tourists; Tours; Urban images / 17
TRANSPORT / Infrastructure; Planning; Vehicles; / 26
VIOLENCE / Child abuse; Crime; Firearms; Gangs; Policing; Rape / 59
Table 1: Research themes, indicative topics, and written outputs
Compilation
The bibliography was compiled from journal article and book chapter reference lists, and paper and electronic catalogues. The latter include the library catalogues of the universities of Cape Town, Stellenbosch and the Western Cape, and the catalogue of the National Library of South Africa. The National Research Foundation’s register of research in progress, and the Union Catalogue of Theses (UNICAT), were also consulted for information on theses. Information on overseas theses was obtained from the British Library and from Dissertation Abstracts International. Journal contents were derived from two print sources, namely Africa Bibliography and the International African Bibliography, and from the digital databases GeoBase, Ingenta, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, Science Direct, and Africa-Wide: NiPAD.
Disclaimer
Every effort has been made to be accurate, but not every bibliographic item has been checked against physical documents. Users are advised to verify bibliographic details before citing items in their own reading lists or publications.
In the case of theses, there are variations in dates according to whether date of completion or date of graduation was adopted as the key date by original indexers. There are instances of minor conflict between registered research titles and the title of submitted dissertations.
Style
Book: Author(s), Date, Title; publisher & place published
Chapter: Author(s), Date, Title; editor(s), Title, publisher & place published, pages
Article: Author(s), Date, Title, Journal Title; volume (number), pages
Thesis: Author(s), Date, Title, (degree, discipline, university), number of pages
Report: Author(s), Date, Title, organisation, number of pages
Seminar: Author(s), Date, Title, organisation, number of pages
CULTURE
Adhikari, M. and de Rooij, V. A., 1999: Straatpraatjes: language, politics and popular culture in Cape Town. Language 75(2): 407-413.
Adhikari, M., et al., (eds), 1996: Straatpraatjes: Language, Politics and Popular Culture in Cape Town, 1909-1922. Pretoria, van Schaik.
Bahre, E., 2002: Witchcraft and the exchange of sex, blood, and money among Africans in Cape Town, South Africa. Journal of Religion in Africa 32(3): 300-334.
Ballantyne, R., 2003: Interpreting apartheid: visitors' perceptions of the District Six Museum. Curator 46(3): 279-292.
Battersby, J., 1999: 'Sometimes it feels like I'm not Black enough': recast(e)ing South African Hip Hop as postcolonial text (MA, Geography: University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne).
Baxter, L. M., 1996: History, Identity and Meaning: Cape Town's Coon Carnival in the 1960s and 1970s (MA, History: University of Cape Town), 255 pp.
Baxter, L. M., 2001: Continuity and change in Cape Town's Coon carnival: the 1960s and 1970s. African Studies 60(1): 87-106.
Borchert, S., 1996: An Account and Analysis of the Making of I-Story: Rastas in Cape Town (BAHons, History: University of Cape Town), 25 pp.
Butler, S. R., 2002: Post-Colonial Challenges: Reinventing Museums in Post-Apartheid Cape Town (PhD, York University, Canada).
Coppenhall, G., 1991: The Effects of Urbanisation on the Role of Diviners and their Divination (Iintlombe) Musical Traditions in the Townships of Cape Town (MMus, University of Cape Town), 392 pp.
Coppenhall, G., 1991: The Effects of Urbanization on the Seance Music, Seance Techniques and Professional Practices of Some Diviners Residing and Working in "Black" Townships on the Periphery of Cape Town (University of Cape Town).
Deacon, H., 1998: Remembering tragedy, constructing modernity: Robben Island as a national monument, in Coetzee, C. and Nuttall, S. (eds), Negotiating the Past: the Making of Memory in South Africa. Cape Town, Oxford University Press, 161-179.
Deacon, H., 2004: Intangible heritage in conservation management planning: the case of Robben Island. International Journal of Heritage Studies 10(3): 309-320.
Gainer, D. J., 2000: Hollywood, African Consolidated Films, and Bioskoopbeskawing (Bioscope Culture): Aspects of American Culture in Cape Town, 1945-1960 (MA, African History: University of Cape Town), 279 pp.
Gollom, I., 2000: The History of the Cape Town Orchestra, 1914-1997 (MMus, Musicology: University of South Africa), (Pretoria).
Goniwe, T. A., 1999: Ritual: a Graphic Interpretation of the Tension and Conflict between African (Black) Traditions and Contemporary Urban Culture in the Nyanga Community (MFA, University of Cape Town), 48 pp.
Gordon, R., et al., 1996: Fashioning the bushman in van Riebeeck's Cape Town, 1952 and 1993, in Skotnes, P. (ed.), Negotiating the Presence of the Bushmen. Cape Town, University of Cape Town Press.
Haas, S., 1997: An Investigation into the Relationship between Three Visual Arts Organisations in Cape Town Using Luhmann's Systems Theory (MA, Institute for Social Development: University of the Western Cape), 155 pp.
Hall, M., 1994: Lifting the veil of popular history: archaeology and contemporary politics in contemporary Cape Town, in Bond, G. C. and Gilliam, A. (eds), Social Construction of the Past: Representation as Power. London, Routledge, 167-184.
Howard, C., 1994: The "No-Persons": an Investigation into Aspects of Secular Popular Music in Cape Town (MMus, University of London).
Jansen, J. M., 1995: Self-representation and common cultural structures in ngoma rituals of southern Africa. Journal of Religion in Africa 25(2): 141-162.
Jeppie, M. S., 1990: Aspects of Popular Culture and Class Expression in Inner Cape Town, c.1939-1959 (MA, Economic History: University of the Witwatersrand).
Jeppie, M. S., 1990: Popular culture and carnival in Cape Town: the 1940s and 1950s, in Jeppie, M. S. and Soudien, C. (eds), The Struggle for District Six: Past and Present. Cape Town, Buchu Books, 67-87.
Kell, C., 1996: Literacy practices in an informal settlement in the Cape Peninsula, in Prinsloo, M. and Breier, M. (eds), The Social Uses of Literacy: Theory and Practice in Contemporary South Africa. Amsterdam, John Benjamin, 235-256.
Layne, V., 1998: The sound archive at the District Six Museum: a work in progress. South African Archives Journal 40: 22-27.
le Grange, L. and Robins, S., 1997: The Wetton-Landsdowne Road Corridor Area: the Identification of Culturally Significant Places and Opportunities. City Planner's Department, Cape Town. 54 pp.
Malan, K. C., 1996: Cape Flats English, in de Klerk, V. (ed.), Varieties of English Around the World. Volume 2: Focus on South Africa. Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 125-148.
Malan, K. C., 2000: Oral Narratives of Personal Experience: a Developmental Sociolinguistic Study of Cape Flats Children (PhD, Lingusitics: University of Cape Town), 294 pp.
Marback, R., 2004: A tale of two plaques: rhetoric in Cape Town. Rhetoric Review 23(3): 253-268.
Martin, D.-C., 1998: Le poids du nom: culture populaire et constructions identitaires chez le 'Metis' du Cap. Critique Internationale 1: 73-100.
Martin, D.-C., 1999: Coon carnival: New Year in Cape Town, Past to Present. Cape Town, David Philip.
Martin, D.-C., 2000: The burden of the name: classifications and constructions of identity. The case of the 'Coloureds' in Cape Town (South Africa). African Philosophy 13(2): 99-124.
Martin, D.-C., 2000: Cape Town's coon carnival, in Nuttall, S. and Michael, C.-A. (eds), Senses of Culture: South African Cultural Studies. Cape Town, Oxford University Press, 363-379.
Mathers, K. F., 1993: Leisure Learning: Revitalising the Role of Museums: a Survey of Cape Town Parents' Attitudes Towards Museums (MPhil, Archaeology: University of Cape Town), 84 pp.
McCormick, K., 1995: Code-switching, code-making and convergence in Cape Town, in Mesthrie, R. (ed.), Language and Social History: Studies in South African Sociolinguistics. Cape Town, David Philip, 193-208.
McCormick, K., 2002: Language in Cape Town's District Six. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
McEachern, C., 1998: Mapping the memories: politics, place and identity in the District Six Museum, Cape Town. Social Identities 4(3): 499-521.
Merrington, P., 1997: Masques, monuments, and masons: the 1910 pageant of the Union of South Africa. Theatre Journal 49(1): 1-15.
Molapo, R. R., 1994: Moshoeshoe, Mfengu and Ntsikana Festivals in Langa Township, 1943-1966. 22 pp.