Browsing Faculty of Humanities by Author "13266772 - Bombardella, Pia"
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Street name-changes, abjection and private toponymy in Potchefstroom, South Africa
Goodrich, André; Bombardella, Pia (Anthropology Southern Africa, 2012)In 2008, many residents of what was then Van Riebeeck Street in the small city of Potchefstroom in South Africa defied the city council's renaming it Peter Mokaba Avenue by erecting replica Van Riebeeck Street signs on ... -
The valorisation of symbolic labour: the articulation of proper womanhood in post–apartheid Potchefstroom
Bombardella, Pia (National Inquiry Services Centre (NISC), 2012)Drawing on ethnographic data gleaned from nine months of research conducted among elderly. middle-class, Afi'ikaansspeaking members of a voluntary woman's organisation that aims at providing adult education to women, ... -
What are statues good for? Winning the battle or losing the battleground?
Goodrich, A.; Bombardella, P. (AOSIS, 2016)In South Africa the practice of toppling statues is as old as the practice of erecting them. The most recent episode in this history began in 2015 with the Rhodes Must Fall campaign at the University of Cape Town, from ...