Diachronic and synchronic identities of multicultural groups in South Africa

dc.contributor.authorMare, Estelle Alma
dc.contributor.editorMare, Estelle Alma
dc.date.accessioned2015-07-09T11:56:03Z
dc.date.available2015-07-09T11:56:03Z
dc.date.created2013
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractIndigenous ethic groups and White settlers in South Africa historically established their various identities by means of their settlement patterns and architecture, in an indigenous, or compromised European way. During the past century this diachronic diversity has become obsolete, especially in the present rapidly urbanising post-apartheid country. Population growth and the accelerating rate of integration of all ethnic groups are presently transforming most urban sectors, giving rise to the extremes of secluded affluent suburbs and informal settlements on the outskirts of cities or overcrowding in run-down urban areas. It is proposed that the current cultural chaos and loss of identity of South African peoples may be countered by the restructuring of built environments in order to harmonise the diachronic and synchronic life worlds of various groups, affording them a choice of habitat - a freedom not previously granted by institutionalised segregation.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractInheemse etniese groepe en blanke setlaars het histories hulle onderskeie identiteite by wyse van hulle nadersettingspatrone en argitektuur gevestig, in ’n inheemse of gekomprimenteerde Europese wyse. Sodanige diachroniese veskeidenheid het gedurende die afgelope eeu uitgedien geraak, veral in die huidige post-apartheid-land waarin verstedeliking teen ’n versnellende tempo plaasvind. Bevolkingsaanwas en die toenemende tempo van die integrasie van alle etniese groepe transformeer tans die meeste stedelike sektore, wat aanleiding gee tot die uiterste verskynsels van afgeslote welgestelde voorstede en informele nedersettings aan die buitewyke van stede of die oorbewoning van vervalle stedelike gebiede. Daar word voorgestel dat die huidige kulturele chaos en identiteitsverlies van die Suid-Afrikaanse bevolking gestuit kan word deur die herstrukturering van beboude omgewings ten einde die diachroniese en sinchroniese lewenswêrelde van onderskeie groepe te harmoniseer, ten einde hulle ’n keuse van woongebied te bied - ’n vryheid wat nie voorheen deur geïnstitusionaliseerde segregasie moontlik was nie.en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://reference.sabinet.co.za/sa_epublication/sajahen_ZA
dc.format.extent16 Pagesen_ZA
dc.format.mediumPDFen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationMare, EA 2013, 'Diachronic and synchronic identities of multicultural groups in South Africa', South African Journal of Art History, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 117-132. [http://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_sajah.html]en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0258-3542
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/46776
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherArt Historical Work Group of South Africaen_ZA
dc.rightsArt Historical Work Group of South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectDiachronic and synchronic identitiesen_ZA
dc.subjectMulticultural groupsen_ZA
dc.subjectLife worldsen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshArt -- History
dc.subject.lcshArchitecture -- History
dc.titleDiachronic and synchronic identities of multicultural groups in South Africaen_ZA
dc.title.alternativeDiachroniese en sinchroniese identiteite van multikulturele groepe in Suid-Afrikaen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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