Navigating the Existential: A Sacred Anchor for the Liminal Identities of Johannesburg South’s Diasporic Youth

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dc.contributor.authorMoodley, Priyan
dc.contributor.supervisorBahman, Dirk
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-02T17:44:23Z
dc.date.available2024-07-02T17:44:23Z
dc.date.issued2024-02
dc.descriptionThis document is submitted in partial fulfilment to the degree: Master of Architecture (professional) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, September 2023.
dc.description.abstractThe story of Johannesburg South is one that begun with the city itself, a by-product of the scar of the mining belt. Through an influx of diasporic communities, it grew and morphed into a place of diverse cultural editing. One that created a youth which was born into landscapes of sacred and cultural juxtapositions and multiplicities. The result is a diasporic melting pot of existential redefinitions and liminal identities, all in flux in this ever-changing landscape, requiring anchorage and rootedness in all the shifting. Through understandings of transliminality, diasporic theory, sacredness and phenomenological existentialism, this thesis aims to give form, materiality and atmosphere to spaces in which temporal meanings of ritual and event can be held and the layering of sacred and secular multiplicities can be evoked. To answer the question of how anchorage can be created for the sacred redefinitions and temporal meanings of the liminal diaspora of Johannesburg South.
dc.description.submitterMM2024
dc.facultyFaculty of Engineering and the Built Environment
dc.identifier.citationMoodley, Priyan. (2024). Navigating the Existential: A Sacred Anchor for the Liminal Identities of Johannesburg South’s Diasporic Youth. [Master's dissertation, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg]. WIReDSpace. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/38820
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/38820
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
dc.rights©2024 University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
dc.rights.holderUniversity of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
dc.schoolSchool of Architecture and Planning
dc.subjectExistential
dc.subjectSacred
dc.subjectSacred Architecture
dc.subjectLiminal
dc.subjectYouth
dc.subjectDiaspora
dc.subjectDiasporic Youth
dc.subjectRitual
dc.subjectUCTD
dc.subject.otherSDG-11: Sustainable cities and communities
dc.titleNavigating the Existential: A Sacred Anchor for the Liminal Identities of Johannesburg South’s Diasporic Youth
dc.typeDissertation
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