Housing Policy Discourse in South Africa: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations for Future Analysis

2015 ◽  
pp. 120-135
Author(s):  
Anita Venter
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Housing Policy ◽  
Policy Discourse ◽  
Future Analysis ◽  
Methodological Considerations

Moving Beyond Text-and-Talk in Qualitative Health Research: Methodological Considerations of Using Multiple Media for Data Collection

2020 ◽  
pp. 104973232097655
Author(s):  
Anri Smit ◽  
Leslie Swartz ◽  
Jason Bantjes ◽  
Rizwana Roomaney ◽  
Bronwyne Coetzee
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Dynamic Process ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Recurrent Breast Cancer ◽  
Qualitative Health Research ◽  
Multiple Media ◽  
Recurrent Breast ◽  
Methodological Considerations

Qualitative researchers are increasingly making use of multiple media to collect data within a single study. Such approaches may have the potential to generate rich insights; however, there are also potential methodological challenges in simultaneously analyzing data from multiple media. Using three case studies from our work with women who had recurrent breast cancer in South Africa, we explore four challenges of using multiple media to collect data: (a) how to understand the repetition of themes (or lack thereof) across multiple media; (b) whether or not data collected from multiple media over a protracted period should be read as longitudinal data reflecting a dynamic process; (c) what impact using multiple media has on the participant–researcher relationship; and (d) how the medium may shape the data obtained. We propose that the value of using multiple methods lies in the opportunity they provide to understand how participants engage with the different media.

Low-income housing policy in practice in arid and semi-arid South Africa

2010 ◽  
Vol 74 (10) ◽  
pp. 1340-1344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lochner Marais ◽  
Jan Cloete ◽  
Zacheus Matebesi ◽  
Kholisa Sigenu ◽  
Deidre van Rooyen
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Housing Policy ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Semi Arid ◽  
Low Income Housing

Enabling Markets to Work? Housing Policy in the 'New' South Africa

2000 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 393-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gareth A. Jones ◽  
Kavita Datta
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Housing Policy ◽  
New South

HIV/AIDS and Housing Policy Review in South Africa

2007 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
C Ndinda ◽  
P Adebayo ◽  
C C Jinabha ◽  
A Adebayo
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Housing Policy ◽  
Policy Review ◽  
Hiv Aids

Housing policy in South Africa

1998 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 215-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Housing Policy

Formalities of Poverty: Thinking about Social Assistance in Neoliberal South Africa

2007 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Policy Discourse ◽  
Formal Sector ◽  
Institutional Power ◽  
New Development

Abstract:In Marginal Gains (2004), Jane Guyer traces the logic of African socioeconomic practices that have long confounded attempts by modern states to impose what she terms “formalization.” Nowhere is the tension between pragmatically “informal” economic life and putatively “formal” state structures more evident than in the domain of poverty interventions, which typically aim to bring state institutional power to bear precisely on those who are most excluded from the “formal sector.” This article offers a preliminary analysis of some new rationalities of poverty alleviation observable in recent South African political and policy discourse. I will argue that new sorts of programmatic thinking about poverty represent a new development within (and not simply against) neoliberalism, and that they seek, by abandoning the regulatory and normalizing functions usually associated with social assistance, to bring the formal and the informal into a new sort of relation.

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