Transnational Habitus and Sociability in the City: Zimbabwean Migrants’ Experiences in Johannesburg, South Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Khangelani Moyo
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Field Research ◽  
The South ◽  
Economic Networks ◽  
Social Field ◽  
Transnational Migrants ◽  
Telephone Calls ◽  
The City

Drawing on field research and a survey of 150 Zimbabwean migrants in Johannesburg, this paper explores the dimensions of migrants’ transnational experiences in the urban space. I discuss the use of communication platforms such as WhatsApp and Facebook as well as other means such as telephone calls in fostering the embedding of transnational migrants within both the Johannesburg and the Zimbabwean socio-economic environments. I engage this migrant-embedding using Bourdieusian concepts of “transnational habitus” and “transnational social field,” which are migration specific variations of Bourdieu’s original concepts of “habitus” and “social field.” In deploying these Bourdieusian conceptual tools, I observe that the dynamics of South–South migration as observed in the Zimbabwean migrants are different to those in the South–North migration streams and it is important to move away from using the same lens in interpreting different realities. For Johannesburg-based migrants to operate within the socio-economic networks produced in South Africa and in Zimbabwe, they need to actively acquire a transnational habitus. I argue that migrants’ cultivation of networks in Johannesburg is instrumental, purposive, and geared towards achieving specific and immediate goals, and latently leads to the development and sustenance of flexible forms of permanency in the transnational urban space.

scholarly journals An Analysis of the Role of Lifestyle in Urban Tourism Sustainable Development (Case Study: Esfahan City)

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 209
Author(s):  
Arghavan Momtazpour ◽  
Masoud Taghvaei ◽  
Neda Rahmani
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Urban Tourism ◽  
Statistical Population ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
The City

Since urban space is one of the important places that tourism takes place, in order to create stability in tourism, the interaction between tourism planning and urban sustainable development should be investigated with regard to cultural elements. Lifestyle is derived from culture as a social phenomenon and affects it and is a reflection of human thoughts in relation with behavior, ethics and culture. Therefore, this aim of this research is to investigate the role of lifestyle in urban tourism sustainable development in Esfahan city, the third most populous city in Iran. This research’s goal is Practical and developmental and about the origin and method, it is descriptive, analytical and casual that has been done in a field research method. The statistical populations of this research are: tourism custodians, tourism experts, national tourists who have travelled to Esfahan city and local residents of all 15 municipal districts of the city. Simple random sampling method was utilized and 838 questionnaires were gathered from 4 statistical populations. In order to analyze the data, factor analysis test was utilized by smart PLS software. The results show that there are meaningful connections among the variables “lifestyle”, “sustainable development” and “urban tourism”. The most frequent factor that was selected by respondents for the concept of lifestyle in the statistical population was sociocultural factor (such as: visiting relatives and friends and attending soirees, traditional foods and drinks festivals, the desirability of Esfahan city in order to spend leisure time, the willingness toward group entertainment). For the concept “urban tourism”, all the populations chose urban texture significantly (such as: revival of workshops for producing traditional clothes, hand-made attractions, systematizing historical areas, developing sidewalk routes, constructing modern entertaining centers and systematizing landscapes and providing equipment for parks). About the sustainable development and its multi-dimensional nature, however, different factors were selected by respondents which in order of importance and frequency are economic, environmental, urban management, sociocultural, urban texture and political factors. Among the recommendations, a few can be stated: arranging cultural plans with a focus on soiree and elders’ reunions, holding traditional and religious festivals in different parts of the city, improving the condition of the existing theme parks and diversifying leisure and entertainment facilities of Esfahan city and pitching in municipal management and being parallel with plans of different organization in city. Especially by mayoralty as a trustee for city and cultural heritage could be mentioned as a tourism trustee.

scholarly journals Transnational Migrants in the Urban Space of Modern City

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 254-275
Author(s):  
Andrey Rezaev ◽  
Alexander Stepanov ◽  
Pavel Lisitsyn
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Host Society ◽  
Mental Maps ◽  
Labor Migrants ◽  
Saint Petersburg ◽  
Transnational Migrants ◽  
New Research

The paper presents the outcomes of the field research oriented towards studying the usage of urban space by female labor migrants from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in Saint Petersburg in comparison with the practices that they have developed in their places of origin. The paper is based on the sociology of everyday life. The authors focus on the migrants’ transnational practices and a scope of their integration into the host society, as well as the perception of the urban space of Saint Petersburg in comparison to the migrants’ homelands. The informants for the study were 28 legal transnational labor migrants. The methods of the research are in-depth interviews in combination with mental maps. The hypothesis of the study includes two assumptions. The first is that migrant women from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan have transnational practices that indicate their inclusion in the social networks of both the country of origin and the host society, while their everyday life will be characterized by a rather low degree of integration into the host society. The second assumption is that the mental maps of St. Petersburg that were drawn by the informants are detailed and diverse compared to the mental maps of the place of residence in their homelands. These assumptions were partly confirmed. Results of the inquiry raise new research questions that demand further research of migrant workers to be answered.

scholarly journals A Study on Urban Furniture: Nicosia Old City

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Mine Kuset Bolkaner ◽  
Selda İnançoğlu ◽  
Buket Asilsoy
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
The South ◽  
Urban Identity ◽  
South Side ◽  
The North ◽  
North Side ◽  
Old City ◽  
Street Furniture ◽  
The City

Urban furniture can be defined as aesthetics and comfort elements that reflect the identity of a city and enable the urban space to become livable. Urban furniture is an important element of the city in order to improve the quality of urban life, to create a comfortable and reliable environment and to meet the needs of the users in the best way. For designing these elements, the social, economic, cultural and architectural structure of the city should be considered and evaluated. It is important to adapt the urban furniture to the urban texture and to the cultural structure achieving an urban identity, in order to ensure the survival and sustainability of the historical environments. In this study, a study was carried out in the context of urban furniture in Nicosia Walled City, which has many architectural cultures with its historical texture. In this context, firstly the concept of urban identity and urban furniture was explained and then, information about urban furniture was given in historical circles with urban furniture samples from different countries. As a field study, a main axis was determined and the streets and squares on this axis were discussed. These areas have been explored starting from Kyrenia Gate in North Nicosia; İnönü Square, Girne Street, Atatürk Square, Arasta Square, Lokmacı Barricade and on the south side Ledra Street and Eleftherias Square. In this context, the existing furniture in the North and South were determined and evaluated in terms of urban identity accordingly. As a result, it can be suggested that the existing street furniture equipments, especially on the north side, do not have any characteristic to emphasize the urban identity. According to the findings, it was determined that the urban furniture in the streets and squares on the north side is generally older and neglected, and does not provide a unity with the environment, whereas on the south side, these elements on the street and square are relatively new, functional and environmentally compatible.Key words: urban furniture, historical environment, urban identity, Nicosia Old City

scholarly journals “Places you shouldn't go to”: (Im)mobility, violence and democracy in Brazil and South Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1365-1391
Author(s):  
Elizabete Albernaz ◽  
Lenin Pires
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Political Effects ◽  
Political Economies ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Pursuing the broader political effects of the relationship between violence, mobility, and inequality, the article describes some of the grounded political-economies (re)producing social inequalities in Brazil and South Africa, and a discontinuous experience of the urban space. This fragmented spatial experience is produced by the simultaneous operation of a discursive apparatus projecting a split ideal of “city”, and grounded social mechanics, in the intersection of values and power relations. In Johannesburg, South Africa, we’ve described the creation of Maboneng, a “urban development project”, to highlight the role of social mobility and growing class aspirations as powerful political vehicles for neoliberal markets reissuing old apartheid socio-spatial divisions. In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, we’ve explored the relationship between the State and its margins to understand the production of the milícia as a violent anti-modern capitalist venture, aiming to control the circulation of people, capital and political support in the city.

scholarly journals Reclaiming Urban Space: A Study of Community Gardens in Poznań

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 131-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Maćkiewicz ◽  
Raúl Puente Asuero ◽  
Krystyna Pawlak
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Formation Process ◽  
Community Gardens ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Photographic Documentation ◽  
The City

Abstract In this paper, we discuss the presence of community gardens in urban spaces and the types of activities performed there, using the city of Poznań as a case study. First, based on interviews with representatives of selected non-governmental organisations, analyses of available Internet sources as well as our own field research, cartographic and photographic documentation, we identify community gardens in the space of the city and explore their formation process. In the course of our study we also concentrate on the type of garden location. In addition, we devote our attention to the gardens which have disappeared from the fabric of the city. Our study reveals that community gardens currently operating in Poznań are established in non-central locations. These gardens are scattered in various parts of the city. Only in the Łazarz district there are two community gardens. Most frequently, community gardens are established on plots between old blocks of flats and tenement houses. Two gardens are located on underdeveloped greenery near the Warta River and in two city parks. A detailed examination of the events held in the community gardens in the Łazarz district in the years 2014–2017 shows that they had a very diversified character. Both of them turned out to be multifunctional, i.e. hosted meetings devoted to agriculture and horticulture, environmental education, artistic events, DIY and recreation. However, the percentage of events in the structure of the meetings organised in the gardens differed considerably.

scholarly journals Panem et circenses [1] at Largo da Carioca, Brazil: the urban diversity focused on people-environment interactions

1970 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ethel Pinheiro ◽  
Cristiane Duarte
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Urban Site ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
The City

This paper explores how outdoor performances actively define and create the essential character of open spaces in Brazil, a country known for its overwhelming abundance of outdoor life. We investigate the importance of open spaces within the urban fabric, and consider the ways in which the history and aspirations of the local community become meaningfully woven into these spaces. We chose an open space, or largo [3], in the city of Rio de Janeiro called Largo da Carioca, which embodies the relation between collective memory and appropriation. We then consider how the Largo has consistently been used as an arena of performance despite the intense urban changes and movement of people over the last 50 years. As a way of grasping the dynamic of the activities of the Largo da Carioca we adopted two approaches: historical-evolutive and participant observation. The first concerns the evolution of the urban space of Largo da Carioca and the background of outdoor performances as a way of introducing the popular arts of Rio de Janeiro, and as a way of connecting our theoretical analysis to the field research. In the second approach we use tools and methods from ethnographic research such as field annotations, direct interviews and visual resources, like photographs and video-shooting, so as to fulfill and complement our work. We argue that the urban essence of these performances is related to the ‘inviting’ conditions of this particular urban site and to its (in)formal structures, uses and regular activities. It invites – because of its openness, formal and social largeness and amplitude – a singular melange of uses and appropriations through which the formal and social are amalgamated – for, as one informant said, it is ‘an open space of constant comings and goings’ (Igor Ferreira, 13/07/03).

scholarly journals Odessa text and Odessa myth in the Russian prose of the 1920s-1930s

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
The South ◽  
Temporal Dimension ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
The Past ◽  
Time Gap ◽  
Main Components ◽  
The City

The article analyzes the Odessa text of Russian literature formed during the first post-revolutionary decades. The unfailing interest that modern literary studies show towards urban studies as well as the urban space and urban texts problems and also a substantial understudy of the Odessa urban text of the 1920s – 1930s determines the relevance of the chosen topic. The purpose of this article is to identify the main components of the Odessa urban myth and the aspects of their representation in the Odessa text of Russian literature.The analysis of the works of I. Babel, V. Zhabotinsky, I. Ilf and Y. Petrov, Y. Olesha, S. Yushkevich, K. Paustovsky, V. Kataev allows us to highlight such unique features of the Odessa text as ludic aspect (carnivalization, theatrical and musical nature, gambling); the myth of Odessa being the free city, the city of peace, and the myth of Odessa Golden age; motives of memories and nostalgia; actualization of city toponyms – Deribasovskaya street, the Duke of Richelieu monument, the Opera House, the dachas of Big Fountain, as the symbols of Odessa glitz and gloss and Moldavanka, Peresyp, and Port as symbols of freedom and adventurous spirit. Odessa myth is described as an ambivalent construct, co-opting the archetypes of the mother and the whore along with the features of the concentric and eccentric cities, a construct where transcendental “capital/province”, “friend/foe” oppositions become blurred. The motive of nostalgia realized through the idealized toponyms of Odessa, the autobiographical nature of the texts, personal memories of childhood and adolescence, focus on past events – those are the chief unitizing aspects in the prose of the selected period. The instantaneous actualization of several timelines along with the longing for a place with no time at all, for a place at the crossroads of several historical eras – those are the distinctive features of a nostalgia concept in Odessa text. At the same time, the pathos of nostalgia is associated with a time gap and with geographical distance marked as impassable. The “past / present” opposition correlate with the other oppositions: the "past" means the “south”, the "friends", the harmony of the center and the province, the truce between the mother and the whore. The “past/present” binary opposition overlapping the “south/north” dichotomy introduces not only spatial but also temporal dimension into the semantics of the “south”.

scholarly journals The establishment and early history of the South African Board for People Practices (SABPP), 1977–1991

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Huma Van Rensburg ◽  
Johan S. Basson ◽  
Nasima M.H. Carrim
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Field Research ◽  
The South ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Hr Management ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
History Of ◽  
Value Add

Orientation: Human resource (HR) management is recognised as a profession worldwide, especially in countries that are forerunners in the field. Research purpose: The main purpose of this study is to record the historical development of HR management as a profession. This study will provide a platform for evaluating the professional standing of HR management in South Africa.Motivation for the study: The motivation for the study is to record the historical development of HR management in South Africa because this is long overdue.Research design, approach and method: The researchers achieved triangulation by examining archived documents they obtained from the South African Board for People Practices (SABPP) and semi-structured interviews with five founding members of the SABPP who were involved during the whole period of the study. The founding members also verified the researchers’ interpretations of the information they obtained from the documents and the interviews. The researchers used content analysis and coding to analyse the data they obtained from the archived documents and the semi-structured interviews.Main findings: The history of HR management in South Africa shows that it meets the four founding pillars of professionalism.Practical/managerial implications: The study also gives HR professionals confidence because HR management is achieving recognition as a profession.Contribution/value-add: The main contribution of the study is that it has recorded the history of HR management as a profession in South Africa properly for the first time.

scholarly journals O COMPLEXO VIÁRIO ULISSES DE GÓIS E SUAS IMPLICAÇÕES NO ESPAÇO URBANO DA ZONA NORTE DE NATAL/RN

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (9) ◽  
pp. 238
Author(s):  
Iapony Rodrigues Galvão
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Motor Vehicles ◽  
Transit System ◽  
The Road ◽  
The North ◽  
El Sistema ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

THE ULISSES DE GÓIS VIALE COMPLEX AND ITS IMPLICATIONS IN THE URBAN AREA OF THE NORTH OF NATAL ZONE/ RNEL COMPLEJO VIARIO ULISSES DE GÓIS Y SUS IMPLICACIONES EN EL ESPACIO URBANO DE LA ZONA NORTE DE NATAL/RNO complexo viário Ulisses de Góis localizado na porção Norte da capital potiguar é composto pela Ponte Ulisses de Góis, mais conhecida como Ponte de Igapó, a qual foi, durante mais de três décadas, a única ligação entre a porção Norte com o restante da cidade e pelo Viaduto Ulisses de Góis, concluído em 2002, o qual interliga a Ponte de Igapó com outras relevantes artérias desta Zona administrativa natalense. Com a construção deste último componente viário, ocorreram profundas dinâmicas no sistema de trânsito não somente da Zona Norte como o da capital potiguar. Desta forma, a presente pesquisa visou compreender a influência do complexo viário nas dinâmicas impostas no sistema de trânsito e nas próprias configurações urbanas da capital potiguar e as possíveis melhorias (ou não) trazidas por esta obra viária para a fluência dos veículos automotores. Assim, através de pesquisas bibliográficas e pesquisas de campo realizada com a aplicação de questionários estruturados a usuários e moradores da área em questão, observou-se que, apesar de considerável parcela dos usuários (48%) afirmarem que ocorreu significativa melhoria no trânsito da zona Norte com a construção do Viaduto Ulisses de Góis, uma parcela não menos importante (37%) considera que o impacto da construção do viaduto para a fluidez do trânsito fora insignificante, pois a construção do viaduto não contribuiu para a resolução dos problemas de circulação de veículos. Percebeu-se, assim, que se torna necessário dotar a cidade de um planejamento voltado para a sua realidade, objetivando aumentar ainda mais a fluidez do trânsito na capital potiguar, através de medidas como o incremento do transporte de massa, possibilitando ainda mais a mobilidade urbana e, assim, constituindo uma cidade mais justa e igualitária para todos os natalenses.Palavras-chave: Espaço Urbano; Complexo Viário; Trânsito.ABSTRACTThe Ulisses de Góis road complex located in the northern part of the capital of potiguar is made up of the Ulisses de Góis Bridge, better known as the Igapó Bridge, which for more than three decades was the only link between the North and the rest of the city and by the Ulisses de Góis Viaduct, completed in 2002, which connects the Igapó Bridge with other relevant arteries of this natal Administrative Zone. With the construction of this last road component, there were profound dynamics in the transit system, not only in the Northern Zone, but also in the capital city. In this way, the present research aimed to understand the influence of the road complex on the dynamics imposed on the transit system and on the urban configurations of the capital of potiguar and the possible improvements (or not) brought by this highway work for the fluency of motor vehicles. Thus, through bibliographic research and field research carried out with the application of structured questionnaires to users and residents of the area in question, it was observed that, despite a considerable portion of users (48%), they affirmed that there was a significant improvement in the area's traffic (37%) considered that the impact of the construction of the viaduct to traffic flow was insignificant, since the construction of the viaduct did not contribute to the vehicles. It was realized, therefore, that it is necessary to endow the city with a planning focused on its reality, aiming to increase even more the flow of traffic in the capital of potiguar, through measures such as the increase of mass transport, making possible even more mobility urban and, thus, being a fairer and egalitarian city for all natalians.Keywords: Urban Space; Road Complex; Traffic.RESUMENEl complejo vial Ulisses de Góis ubicado en la porción Norte de la capital potiguar está compuesto por el Puente Ulisses de Góis, más conocido como Puente de Igapó, el cual fue durante más de tres décadas la única conexión entre la porción Norte con el resto de la ciudad y por el Viaducto Ulisses de Góis, concluido en 2002, el que interconecta el Puente de Igapó con otras relevantes arterias de esta Zona administrativa natalense. Con la construcción de este último componente viario, ocurrieron profundas dinámicas en el sistema de tránsito, no solamente en la Zona Norte como el de la capital potiguar. De esta forma, la presente investigación pretendió comprender la influencia del complejo vial en las dinámicas impuestas en el sistema de tránsito y en las propias configuraciones urbanas de la capital potiguar, y las posibles mejoras (o no) traídas por esta obra vial para la fluencia de los vehículos automotores. Por lo tanto, a través de investigaciones bibliográficas e investigaciones de campo, realizada con la aplicación de cuestionarios estructurados a usuarios y residentes del área en cuestión, se observó que: a pesar de la considerable proporción de los usuarios (48%) que afirman que ocurrió una significativa mejora en el tránsito de la zona, en el norte con la construcción del Viaducto Ulisses de Góis, una parte no menos importante (37%), considera que el impacto de la construcción del viaducto para la fluidez del tránsito fue insignificante, pues no contribuyó a la resolución de los problemas de circulación de los vehículos. Se percibió, que se hace necesario dotar a la ciudad de una planificación volcada hacia su realidad, con el objetivo de aumentar aún más la fluidez del tránsito en la capital potiguar, a través de medidas como el incremento del transporte de masa, posibilitando aún más la movilidad urbana y, así, constituyendo una ciudad más justa e igualitaria para todos los natalenses.Palabras clave: Espacio Urbano; Complejo Vial; Tráfico.

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