Kruger, Christi Louise2018-03-012018-03-012017Kruger, Christi Louise (2017) (Dis)-empowered whiteness: an ethnography of the king Edward Park, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, <https://hdl.handle.net/10539/24136>https://hdl.handle.net/10539/24136A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Johannesburg, March 2017This thesis focuses on group of poorer white South Africans who have settled, informally and illegally, in a former caravan park on the West Rand of Johannesburg, The King Edward Park. It is enthographic study that explores the socio-economic genealogies of the poorer white residents of the park, the everyday practices of making livelihoods, and attempt to produce ideologies of South African blackness. [Abbreviated Abstract. Open document to view full version]Online resource (iii, 278 pages)enPoor whites--South AfricaWhites--South AfricaPoor--South AfricaSouth Africa--Economic conditionThesis