Simon Bekker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3849565 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Bekker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Bekker |
| SIGNATURE | BEKKER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Africa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6739-1056 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Refractions of the National, the Popular and the Global in African Cities
Case studies of metropolitan cities in nine African countries from Egypt in the north to three in West and Central Africa, two in East Africa and three in Southern Africa make up the empirical foundation of this publication. The interrelated themes addressed in these chapters the national influence on urban development, the popular dynamics that shape urban development and the global currents on urban development make up its framework. All author…
Sounding the Cape: Music, Identity and Politics in South Africa. Denis-Constant Martin. 2013. Somerset West, South Africa: African Minds. 444pp
Reflections on Identity in Four African Cities
Identity has become the watchword of our times. In sub-Saharan Africa, this certainly appears to be true and for particular reasons. Africa is urbanising rapidly, cross-border migration streams are swelling and globalising influences sweep across the continent. Africa is also facing up to the challenge of nurturing emergent democracies in which citizens often feel torn between older traditional and newer national loyalties. Accordingly, collectiv…
Reflections on Identity in Four African Cities
Identity has become the watchword of our times. In sub-Saharan Africa, this certainly appears to be true and for particular reasons. Africa is urbanising rapidly, cross-border migration streams are swelling and globalising influences sweep across the continent. Africa is also facing up to the challenge of nurturing emergent democracies in which citizens often feel torn between older traditional and newer national loyalties. Accordingly, collectiv…
Le nouveau lexique identitaire sud-africain. État des lieux dans la province du Cap Occidental
The emergence of new identities in the Western Cape
Identity construction has become serious business to new governments in liberal democracies. Rank-and-file residents, however, do not always accord to attempts by such governments to construct identities from above. Instead, from below, in so far as they are able, they choose between new sub-national identities and older 'given' identities. In fact, multiple identities are common among residential groupings and often, in particular circumstances,…
Local government transition in five Eastern seaboard South African towns
After a period during which central and provincial government questions have dominated the stage, the importance of local government is on the rise in South Africa. This article introduces the challenge of local government establishment by outlining the process proposed by central government actors and by identifying a central dilemma inherent to it – delayed transition at local level. Subsequently, the ways in which the pre‐election process was …
Ethnicity in Focus: The South African Case
Pondoland looking north to Natal: Common economic interests or different regional loyalties
Durban city government in the nineteen-nineties: The Joint Services Board and its possible future
Plaaslike bestuur in hedendaagse Suid-Afrika: N Sosiologiese evaluering / Local government in contemporary South Africa: A sociological evaluation
This article comprises two parts. Firstly, local government is discussed theoretically within its wider state structure and the present as well as planned future local government structures in South Africa are analysed. Secondly, the new local structures planned by the South African government are evaluated in the light of this government's homeland policy, the views of important opposition groupings in the country, and the priority the governmen…
Plaaslike bestuur in hedendaagse Suid-Afrika: ’N Sosiologiese evaluering
Local government in contemporary South Africa: A sociological evaluation. This article comprises two parts. Firstly, local government is discussed theoretically within its wider state structure and the present as well as planned future local government structures in South Africa are analysed. Secondly, the new local structures planned by the South African government are evaluated in the light of this government’s homeland policy, the views of imp…
Dissension over regional services councils: The stances of opposition groupings to local government reform1
The notion of the devolution of power from central to regional and local levels is gaining popularity across a wide front as a point of departure ‐ a rudimentary strategy ‐ to conceptualise ways in which South African society can be transformed. The South African government has contributed to this exercise by launching a process of establishing Regional Services Councils, new multi‐racial metropolitan and ‘areawide’ bodies outside South African ‘…
Quality of life in Grahamstown, East London and Mdantsane: Preliminary result
A quality of life survey amongst residents of three Eastern Cape towns, viz. Grahamstown, East London, and Mdantsane, shows that the attitudes to home and neighbourhood which urban residents in the Eastern Cape develop, are fashioned in large part by both the residential “group area” in which these urban dwellers live, and by their socio-economic status. White residents, overwhelmingly, are satisfied with their diets, their municipality, their ho…
Positivistiese, vertolkende en kritiese sosiologie: N Vergelyking
POSITIVISTIC, INTERPRETATIYE AND CRITICAL SOCIOLOGY: A COMPARISON: An attempt is made to compare three widely-used methodologies in the social sciences: positivism, ethnomethodology and critical sociology. The comparison is carried out by using certain works of social scientists who identify themselves with one of these methodologies. The basis for comparing these works is their use of a criterion of validation, and their conception of the double…
The Pluralist Approach of Pierre Van Den Berghe
The emergence of new identities in the Western Cape
Identity construction has become serious business to new governments in liberal democracies. Rank-and-file residents, however, do not always accord to attempts by such governments to construct identities from above. Instead, from below, in so far as they are able, they choose between new sub-national identities and older 'given' identities. In fact, multiple identities are common among residential groupings and often, in particular circumstances,…
Refractions of the National, the Popular and the Global in African Cities
Case studies of metropolitan cities in nine African countries from Egypt in the north to three in West and Central Africa, two in East Africa and three in Southern Africa make up the empirical foundation of this publication. The interrelated themes addressed in these chapters the national influence on urban development, the popular dynamics that shape urban development and the global currents on urban development make up its framework. All author…
Local government transition in five Eastern seaboard South African towns
After a period during which central and provincial government questions have dominated the stage, the importance of local government is on the rise in South Africa. This article introduces the challenge of local government establishment by outlining the process proposed by central government actors and by identifying a central dilemma inherent to it – delayed transition at local level. Subsequently, the ways in which the pre‐election process was …
Dissension over regional services councils: The stances of opposition groupings to local government reform1
The notion of the devolution of power from central to regional and local levels is gaining popularity across a wide front as a point of departure ‐ a rudimentary strategy ‐ to conceptualise ways in which South African society can be transformed. The South African government has contributed to this exercise by launching a process of establishing Regional Services Councils, new multi‐racial metropolitan and ‘areawide’ bodies outside South African ‘…
Reflections on Identity in Four African Cities
Identity has become the watchword of our times. In sub-Saharan Africa, this certainly appears to be true and for particular reasons. Africa is urbanising rapidly, cross-border migration streams are swelling and globalising influences sweep across the continent. Africa is also facing up to the challenge of nurturing emergent democracies in which citizens often feel torn between older traditional and newer national loyalties. Accordingly, collectiv…
The Pluralist Approach of Pierre Van Den Berghe
Positivistiese, vertolkende en kritiese sosiologie: N Vergelyking
POSITIVISTIC, INTERPRETATIYE AND CRITICAL SOCIOLOGY: A COMPARISON: An attempt is made to compare three widely-used methodologies in the social sciences: positivism, ethnomethodology and critical sociology. The comparison is carried out by using certain works of social scientists who identify themselves with one of these methodologies. The basis for comparing these works is their use of a criterion of validation, and their conception of the double…
Quality of life in Grahamstown, East London and Mdantsane: Preliminary result
A quality of life survey amongst residents of three Eastern Cape towns, viz. Grahamstown, East London, and Mdantsane, shows that the attitudes to home and neighbourhood which urban residents in the Eastern Cape develop, are fashioned in large part by both the residential “group area” in which these urban dwellers live, and by their socio-economic status. White residents, overwhelmingly, are satisfied with their diets, their municipality, their ho…
Dissension over regional services councils: The stances of opposition groupings to local government reform1
The notion of the devolution of power from central to regional and local levels is gaining popularity across a wide front as a point of departure ‐ a rudimentary strategy ‐ to conceptualise ways in which South African society can be transformed. The South African government has contributed to this exercise by launching a process of establishing Regional Services Councils, new multi‐racial metropolitan and ‘areawide’ bodies outside South African ‘…
Plaaslike bestuur in hedendaagse Suid-Afrika: N Sosiologiese evaluering / Local government in contemporary South Africa: A sociological evaluation
This article comprises two parts. Firstly, local government is discussed theoretically within its wider state structure and the present as well as planned future local government structures in South Africa are analysed. Secondly, the new local structures planned by the South African government are evaluated in the light of this government's homeland policy, the views of important opposition groupings in the country, and the priority the governmen…
Plaaslike bestuur in hedendaagse Suid-Afrika: ’N Sosiologiese evaluering
Local government in contemporary South Africa: A sociological evaluation. This article comprises two parts. Firstly, local government is discussed theoretically within its wider state structure and the present as well as planned future local government structures in South Africa are analysed. Secondly, the new local structures planned by the South African government are evaluated in the light of this government’s homeland policy, the views of imp…
Durban city government in the nineteen-nineties: The Joint Services Board and its possible future
Pondoland looking north to Natal: Common economic interests or different regional loyalties
Ethnicity in Focus: The South African Case
Local government transition in five Eastern seaboard South African towns
After a period during which central and provincial government questions have dominated the stage, the importance of local government is on the rise in South Africa. This article introduces the challenge of local government establishment by outlining the process proposed by central government actors and by identifying a central dilemma inherent to it – delayed transition at local level. Subsequently, the ways in which the pre‐election process was …
The emergence of new identities in the Western Cape
Identity construction has become serious business to new governments in liberal democracies. Rank-and-file residents, however, do not always accord to attempts by such governments to construct identities from above. Instead, from below, in so far as they are able, they choose between new sub-national identities and older 'given' identities. In fact, multiple identities are common among residential groupings and often, in particular circumstances,…
Le nouveau lexique identitaire sud-africain. État des lieux dans la province du Cap Occidental
Reflections on Identity in Four African Cities
Identity has become the watchword of our times. In sub-Saharan Africa, this certainly appears to be true and for particular reasons. Africa is urbanising rapidly, cross-border migration streams are swelling and globalising influences sweep across the continent. Africa is also facing up to the challenge of nurturing emergent democracies in which citizens often feel torn between older traditional and newer national loyalties. Accordingly, collectiv…
Reflections on Identity in Four African Cities
Identity has become the watchword of our times. In sub-Saharan Africa, this certainly appears to be true and for particular reasons. Africa is urbanising rapidly, cross-border migration streams are swelling and globalising influences sweep across the continent. Africa is also facing up to the challenge of nurturing emergent democracies in which citizens often feel torn between older traditional and newer national loyalties. Accordingly, collectiv…
Sounding the Cape: Music, Identity and Politics in South Africa. Denis-Constant Martin. 2013. Somerset West, South Africa: African Minds. 444pp
Refractions of the National, the Popular and the Global in African Cities
Case studies of metropolitan cities in nine African countries from Egypt in the north to three in West and Central Africa, two in East Africa and three in Southern Africa make up the empirical foundation of this publication. The interrelated themes addressed in these chapters the national influence on urban development, the popular dynamics that shape urban development and the global currents on urban development make up its framework. All author…
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