Fiona Ross, of UCT’s Department of Social Anthropology, has penned the title Raw Life, New Hope which takes a close look at the lives of the residents of the The Park, a township on the outskirts of Cape Town.
Raw Life, New Hope: Decency, housing and everyday life in a post-apartheid community, by Associate Professor Fiona Ross of the Department of Social Anthropology, doesn’t skimp on the scholarly rigour.But it’s also the kind of book that Ross wants the lay reader and occasional book club - tick that box - to pick up between the Austens and travelogues. So in telling the fly-on-the-wall story, chronicled over 13 years, of the residents of local shantytown The Park, Ross has tried to capture the little details of life in the community that illustrate how people create meaning in their lives.
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