Mapping the Multiple Contexts of Racial Isolation: The Case of Long Street, Cape Town

Colin Getty Tredoux and John Andrew Dixon
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Colin Getty Tredoux: Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa, colin.tredoux@uct.ac.za
John Andrew Dixon: JDepartment of Psychology, Fylde Building, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YF, UK, j.a.dixon1@lancaster.ac.uk

Urban Studies, 2009, vol. 46, issue 4, 761-777

Abstract: This article explores the idea that racial segregation is a process operating across a range of scales of social life. The focus is upon the way segregation unfolds and is (re)produced at what can be termed the `micro-ecological' scale—that is, in the everyday, interpersonal interactions between people in informal settings. To illustrate this argument, a case study is presented of relations in the night-time economy of Long Street, Cape Town. It is shown how such relations comprise micro-ecological practices of contact and isolation that occur at levels of resolution seldom captured by segregation research.

Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098009102128

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