dc.contributor.author | Ogedengbe, Stefan Samuel Madabe Heimstad | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-01-19T00:46:01Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-01-19T00:46:01Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-12-15 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2022-01-18T23:00:02Z | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2838071 | |
dc.description.abstract | This thesis is an investigation into topics that have been given new contexts and circumstances as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa. The thesis focuses on processes of marginalization, enduring inequalities, social abandonment and violence. Ethnographically I focus on the “urban poor”, by which I mean here fisherfolk, domestic workers, homeless and others. I employ a triple analytical focus using the concepts “bare life”, “resilience” and “necropolitics” to highlight the shadow sides of the pandemic response as it has unfolded in South Africa. Throughout the chapters, I argue that the South African pandemic response – which has been among the strictest in the world - have exacerbated inequalities and consequently caused a reduction in quality of life which is especially related hunger, poverty and loss of livelihoods among the urban poor. | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | The University of Bergen | |
dc.rights | Copyright the Author. All rights reserved | |
dc.title | Bare Life: Life of the Urban poor during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa | |
dc.type | Master thesis | |
dc.date.updated | 2022-01-18T23:00:02Z | |
dc.rights.holder | Copyright the Author. All rights reserved | |
dc.description.degree | Masteroppgave | |
dc.description.localcode | SANT350 | |
dc.description.localcode | MASV-SANT | |
dc.subject.nus | 738106 | |
fs.subjectcode | SANT350 | |
fs.unitcode | 15-34-0 | |