Dealing and sharing
The construction of community in a Pretoria public park
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2186744 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dennis Edward Webster (University of Pretoria, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 253-264 |
| Publication date | 2014-10-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology Southern Africa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2332-3264 • E-ISSN: 2332-3256 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/23323256.2014.993810 |
| OpenAlex | W1996013276 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
This paper describes how a group of men, who are invisible to the state because they possess \nno formal legal documentation, such as ID books or passports, and do not take part in the \nformal economy, live in a public park in Gezina, Pretoria. It explores how they negotiate \nsome of the ambiguities of street life and community through acts of sharing and illegal public \ngambling. While the moral and economic principles organising life in the park are plural, forms \nof everyday communism predominate. I argue that this predominance allows for a form of \ncommunity that allows the men living there to navigate their daily uncertainties more easily, and \nexplore the ways in which public gambling functions to maintain the conditions for constructive \nrelations amongst them
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |