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The Black Township Hospitality Market: Intimacies, Authenticities, and Postcolonial Imaginaries in South Africa
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| 자료유형 | 학위논문 |
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| 서명/저자사항 | The Black Township Hospitality Market: Intimacies, Authenticities, and Postcolonial Imaginaries in South Africa. |
| 개인저자 | Hikido, Annie. |
| 단체저자명 | University of California, Santa Barbara. Sociology. |
| 발행사항 | [S.l.]: University of California, Santa Barbara., 2019. |
| 발행사항 | Ann Arbor: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019. |
| 형태사항 | 249 p. |
| 기본자료 저록 | Dissertations Abstracts International 81-04A. Dissertation Abstract International |
| ISBN | 9781088313862 |
| 학위논문주기 | Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2019. |
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Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-04, Section: A.
Advisor: Twine, France Winddance. |
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| 요약 | After South Africa dismantled the apartheid regime, tourism became an avenue through which the "new" South Africa could reconstruct its global image. As the industry grew, Black townships were integrated into mainstream tourism routes. The growth of Black township tourism has opened up entrepreneurial spaces for township residents to generate income as well as narratives about the post-apartheid state. This dissertation examines Black township hospitality in Cape Town, a market pioneered by middle-aged and elderly women who have turned their homes into accommodations. I conducted fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork carried out in three stages over a four-year-period (2014-2018), during which I circulated among nineteen bed and breakfasts and guesthouses across three Black townships. I also conducted 124 interviews with hostesses, guests, and other persons invested in Black township hospitality. Drawing from this data, I reveal how Black women became township hostesses, constructed their homes, and attuned their services for a diverse clientele that included white Western tourists, Black South African tourists, and Black South African locals. My analysis demonstrates how hostesses performed intimate caretaking labors to produce variants of Black township authenticity for each guest type. Guests' consumption of what they perceived to be culturally and emotionally authentic experiences shaped their impression of the "real" South Africa. White Western tourists believed that Black township hospitality signaled "Third World" local development, Black South African tourists interpreted their stays as indications of South Africa's global ascendancy, and Black South African locals' desire for private rooms articulated the young democracy's civic failures. By linking the intimate interactions between hostesses and guests to the production of postcolonial narratives, I pinpoint the Black township hospitality market as a lens that refracts South Africa's post-apartheid image along lines of race, class, and nation. These splintered national imaginaries are not just economic rankings but distinctly racialized profiles that situate Black South Africa in a geopolitical order. My study also examines how Black women entered into and organized home-based hospitality as a new form of service work. I trace how colonization, apartheid, and democratization relegated Black women to the lowest rungs of South African society, but also laid groundwork for their foray into township tourism. I chronicle hostesses' entrepreneurial trajectories and detail how they negotiated gendered labor demands in their private homes-cum-public accommodations. Their varied work pathways and practices collectively reveal how the post-apartheid era has enabled Black women to broker new kinds of authenticity without liberating them from structures of inequality. In sum, this dissertation contributes to studies of race, gender, culture, and globalization by showing how the consumption of authentic experiences, as generated by Black women's intimate hospitality services, translates the contradictions of South Africa's postcolonial transformation. |
| 일반주제명 | Sociology. Black studies. Gender studies. |
| 언어 | 영어 |
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