Cape Town's million plus black township of Khayelitsha: Terrae incognitae and the geographies and cartographies of silence

Habitat International

Volumn 39, Issue , 2013, Pages 284-294

  Brunn, Stanley D ^a   Wilson, Matthew W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apartheid's nameless landscapes; Khayelitsha; Named and un named township geographies; Silent cartographies and geographies; Unmapped geographies

Indexed keywords

APARTHEID; BLACK POPULATION; CARTOGRAPHY; URBAN AREA; URBAN GEOGRAPHY;

CAPE TOWN; KHAYELITSHA; SOUTH AFRICA; WESTERN CAPE;

EID: 84875865993     PISSN: 01973975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2012.10.017     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. Agnew J., Gillespie T.W., Gonzalez J. Baghdad nights: evaluating the U.S. military surge using nighttime light signatures. Environment and Planning 2008, 40:2285-2295.
2. The imperial map: Cartography and the mastery of empire 2009, University of Chicago Press, Chicago. J.R. Akerman (Ed.).
3. Bowden M. The invention of American tradition. Journal of Historical Geography 1992, 19:3-26.
4. Brett M. Eyewitness travel. South Africa 2009, DK Publisher, London and New York.
5. Brin S., Page L. The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual web search engine. Computer Networks and ISDN Systems 1998, 30:107-117.
6. Cape Town Tours. Khayelitsha Township Tour. Accessed on 27 Nov. 2012. http://www.capetown.travel/attractions/entry/Khayelitsha_Township_Tour_and_Craft_Market/.
7. Christopher A.J. Urban segregation and post-apartheid South Africa. Urban Studies 2001, 38:449-466.
8. Christopher A.J. First steps in the desegregation of South Africa's towns and cities, 1991-96. Development Southern Africa 2001, 18:457-470.
9. City Maps Strategic development information & GIS 2011, City Map, Khayelitsha.
10. Cloke P. Exploring boundaries of professional/personal practice and action: being and becoming in Khayelitsha township, Cape Town. Radical theory/critical praxis 2004, 92-102. Praxis€ Press, Kelowna, British Columbia. D. Fuller, R. Kitchin (Eds.).
11. Cook G.P. Khayelitsha - policy change or crisis response?. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 1985, 11:57-66.
12. Crampton J. Maps as social constructions: power, communications and visualization. Progress in Human Geography 2001, 25:235-252.
13. Dewdney C. Acquainted with the night: Excursions through the world after dark 2004, Bloomsbury, Harrisonburg. VA.
14. DK Eyewitness Travel Top ten Cape Town and wine landscapes 2008, DK Eyewitness Travel, London.
15. Edney M.H. The irony of imperial mapping. The imperial map: Cartography and the mastery of empire 2009, 11-45. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. J.R. Akerman (Ed.).
16. Elwood S.A., Leszczynski A. Privacy, reconsidered: new representations, data practices, and the geoweb. Geoforum 2011, 42:6-15.
17. Fodor's Exploring South Africa New york and London 2006.
18. Fodor's South Africa New York: Fodor 2010.
19. Google Map of Khayelitsha. 11 January 2012. http://maps.google.com/maps%3fhl.
20. Google Scholar Khayelitsha 11 January 2012.
21. Google Search Engine Khayelitsha 11 January 2012.
22. Google StreetView Khayelitsha 2012, Accessed 16.02.12.
23. Graham M., Zook M. Visualizing global cyberscapes: mapping user-geographical placemarks. Journal of Urban Technology 2011, 18:115-132.
24. Harley J.B. Silences and secrecy: the hidden agenda of cartography in early modern Europe. Imago Mundi 1988, 40:57-76.
25. Harley J.B. Deconstructing the map. Cartographica 1989, 26:1-20.
26. Harley J.B. Rereading the maps of the Columbian encounter. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 1992, 82:522-542.
27. Huxley A. Doors of perception 1954, HarperCollins, New York.
28. Jakle J.A. City lights: Illuminating the American night 2001, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
29. Liebowitz B., Swartz L., Bozalek V., Carolissen R., Nicholls L., Rohleder P. Community, self, identity 2003, HDRI Press, Cape Town.
30. Livingstone D.N. Landscapes of knowledge. Geographies of science 2010, 3-22. Springer, Dordrecht. P. Meusburger, D.N. Livingstone, H. Jöns (Eds.).
31. Melbin M. Night as frontier. Colonizing the world after dark 1987, Free Press, New York.
32. Mitchell W.J.T. Holy landscape; Israel, Palestine, and the American wilderness. Critical Inquiry 2000, 26:193-223.
33. Ngxiza S. Sustainable economic development in previously deprived locations: the case of Khayelitsha in Cape Town. Urban Forum 2011, 1-16. (Online First) (4 October 2011).
34. NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) National geographic data center 2012, Accessed 11.01.12. http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/downloadV4composites.html.
35. Noyes J.K. The natives in their places: " ethnographic cartography" and the representation of autonomous spaces in Ovamboland, German South West Africa. History and Anthropology 1994, 8:237-264.
36. Oldfield S. Urban networks, community organizing and race: the analysis of social integration in a desegregated South African neighborhood. Geoforum 2004, 35:189-201.
37. Otter S. Khayelitsha 2008, Penguin Books, Johannesburg.
38. Paar P., Rekittke J. Low-cost mapping and publishing methods for landscape architectural analysis and design in slum-upgrading projects. Future Internet 2011, 3:228-247.
39. Richmond S., Ranger H. Cape town city guide 2009, Lonely Planet, London.
40. Safier N. The confines of the colony: boundaries, ethnographic landscapes and empirical cartography in Iberoamerica. The imperial map: Cartography and the mastery of empire 2009, 133-184. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. J.R. Akerman (Ed.).
41. Shelton T., Zook M., Graham M. The technology of religion: mapping religious cyberscapes. The Professional Geographer 2012, 64:602-617.
42. Sutton P., Goetz A.R., Fildes S., Foster C., Ghosh T. Darkness on the edge of town: mapping urban and peri-urban Australia using nighttime satellite imagery. The Professional Geographer 2010, 62:219-233.
43. Thrift N., French S. The automatic production of space: transactions. Institute of British Geographers 2002, 27:309-335.
44. TimeOut.Cape Town Winelands and the garden route 2008, Universal House, London.
45. Tshehla B. Non-state justice in the post-apartheid, South Africa - a scan of Khayelitsha. African Sociological Journal 2002, 6:47-70.
46. Tuan Y.F. Landscapes of fear 1991, Pantheon, New York.
47. Turnbull D. Cartography and science in early modern Europe: mapping the construction of knowledge spaces. Imago Mundi 1996, 48:5-24.
48. Wood D. The power of maps 1993, Routledge, London.
49. Wright J.K. Terrae incognitae: the place of the imagination in geography. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 1947, 37:1-15.
50. Zeigler D. Post-communist Europe and the cartography of independence. Political Geography 2002, 21:671-686.
51. Zook M., Graham M. Mapping digiplace: geocoded internet information and the representation of place. Environment and Planning 2007, B 34:466-482.
52. Zook M., Graham M. The creative construction of the internet: Google and the revitalization of cyberspace and digiplace. Geoforum 2007, 30:1322-1341.