SAIC Final Technical Report : SurveyMonkey

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2016-04-20

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The dimensions of social cohesion may be profoundly different in the global south. This Safe and Inclusive Cities (SAIC) policy brief reports on a survey of findings in Khayelitsha (South Africa). In South Africa the most basic legitimacy of state institutions is at stake. Participation may involve immediate defence of life; a sense of national or even local belonging remains intensely problematic, and social inequality is so pervasive that trust is deeply undermined. The research attempts to understand the way in which solidarity is imagined by social actors in terms of shared “webs of significance” or perceptions of “reality” that make social relationships possible.

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VIOLENCE PREVENTION, CRIME, SOCIAL COHESION, SEGREGATION, SOCIAL INEQUALITY, COLLECTIVE ACTION, SAFE AND INCLUSIVE CITIES, PROJECT MONITORING, SOUTH AFRICA, SOUTH OF SAHARA

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