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Rethinking the dumping grounds: questioning assumptions about movement into the relocation settlement of Bilanyoni
Author(s) -
Meth Paula
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
area
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/1475-4762.00027
Subject(s) - relocation , human settlement , settlement (finance) , movement (music) , dumping , political science , sociology , political economy , geography , history , archaeology , business , aesthetics , philosophy , finance , computer science , international trade , payment , programming language
Historical accounts of relocation settlements in South Africa have emphasized processes of dispossession in the creation of these settlements. This paper considers other related histories of movement into relocation settlements as evidence of seldom considered contradictory and ambiguous experiences around movement and attachment to place — hence encouraging a rethink of the laden term ‘the dumping grounds’.