Who Will be the Shade of Our Tree When You Leave? Collaborating as Women to Advance Community Emancipation

• Published in: American journal of community psychology Vol. 37; no. 3-4; pp. 211 - 218
• Main Author: Daniels, Doria
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 01.06.2006; Blackwell Science Ltd
• Subjects: Adult; Collaboration; Community; Community Development; Community Involvement; Community Networks; Community organizing; Community-building; Conflict (Psychology); Cooperation; Emancipation; Ethnic Groups; Ethnic Relations; Female; Females; Group Processes; Housing; Humans; Informal settlement; Middle Aged; Ownership; Politics; Race Relations; Social activism; Social Change; Social conditions & trends; South Africa; Transformative learning; Women; Women - psychology; South Africa

In 1994, out of a population of 45 million people an estimated 7.7 million people lived in informal settlements in South Africa (South African Institute of Race Relations, 1994). This article focuses on one community whose residents' desperation to own housing contributed to community disintegr...