Schooling, youth adaptation and translocl citizenship across the post apartheid city - Aslam Fataar

This article draws on my research in a township on the outskirts of Cape Town. It focuses on young people's identification adaptations in their interaction with schooling in this city. While the deeper markings of race, class and gender associated with the city's apartheid past are ever present. I will suggest that young people's adaptations are negotiated fundamentally in light of the changing cultural topography of race (Rizvi, 2004) in which life in South African cities are currently experienced. I employ the lens of 'translocalism' to signpost the new articulation field in terms of which school students reflexively adapt their youthful identities. I use the case of one high school student to illustrate how many young people navigate spatially reconfiguing urban school terrain.
From: Journal of Education, no. 42 (2007)