"Asbaanjaers rig oë op Pretoria’ : a short history of stock-car racing in South Africa’s capital city

dc.contributor.authorPieterse, Jimmy
dc.contributor.emailjimmy.pieterse@up.ac.zaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-20T06:30:23Z
dc.date.available2023-10-20T06:30:23Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractThis article outlines the history of stock-car racing in South Africa’s capital city until 1968. By reconstructing the histories of two raceways in Pretoria, it shows how stock-car and oval-track racing helped to (re)inscribe the cityscape. It draws attention to the contentious, at times symbiotic, relationship between the city council and the sport of stock-car racing in the context of shifting ideas around the respectable consumption of automobiles. It also analyses the entwinement of this history with other pastimes/subcultures. Finally, it shows that involvement (whether as participants or spectators) in oval-track racing created the conditions necessary for the production of alternative yet completely viable scripts of how to be white in Pretoria during the 1950s and the 1960s. Evidence is drawn from archival sources, popular print media, and ethnography.en_US
dc.description.departmentAnthropology and Archaeologyen_US
dc.description.librarianhj2023en_US
dc.description.urihttps://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cjss20en_US
dc.identifier.citationJimmy Pieterse (2020) ‘Asbaanjaers Rig Oë Op Pretoria’: A Short History of Stock-Car Racing in South Africa’s Capital City, Journal of Southern African Studies, 46:3, 547-564, DOI: 10.1080/03057070.2020.1748839.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0305-7070 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1465-3893 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1080/03057070.2020.1748839
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/93006
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dc.rights© 2020 The Editorial Board of the Journal of Southern African Studies. This is an electronic version of an article published in Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 547-564, 2020. doi : 10.1080/03057070.2020.1748839. Journal of Southern African Studies is available online at : http://www.tandfonline.comloi/cjss20.en_US
dc.subjectPretoria, South Africaen_US
dc.subjectWhites and whitenessen_US
dc.subjectSport and leisureen_US
dc.subjectCar culturesen_US
dc.subjectSubculturesen_US
dc.subjectMasculinitiesen_US
dc.subjectFemininitiesen_US
dc.subjectOval-track racingen_US
dc.subjectStock-car racingen_US
dc.subjectModernityen_US
dc.title"Asbaanjaers rig oë op Pretoria’ : a short history of stock-car racing in South Africa’s capital cityen_US
dc.typePreprint Articleen_US

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