Photographing dispossession, forgetting solidarity: Waiting for social justice in Wentworth, South Africa

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 521-540

  Chari, Sharad ^a,b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Photography; Sentiment; Social justice; South Africa; Subalternity; Visual historical geography

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; PHOTOGRAPHY; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

AFRICA; DURBAN; KWAZULU-NATAL; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 70350257649     PISSN: 00202754     EISSN: 14755661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2009.00360.x     Document Type: Article

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