Safe homes for African LGBTQ+ youth : resilience personified

African Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning (LGBTQ) Youth are disproportionately affected by the issue of homelessness. Social housing policy is often inadequate to address the needs of homeless youth in general and homeless LGBTQ youth more specifically. This policy brief highlights concerns regarding housing markets, which are limited to the extent that profit motives constrain housing choices for the poorest and least economically resourced. It examines LGBTQ community-led practices of safe home provision. Decriminalisation of LGBTQ communities is a first step in addressing inequities

Securing Pride: Sexuality, Security and the Post-Apartheid State

This paper explores the contestation that emerges between state security providers and communities in hybrid security situations. Rather than focusing on the failures of the state, the article explores how communities use contested (in)securities to create forms of security for themselves. The article argues for Soweto Pride as an example of vernacular security for black LGBT+ populations in Johannesburg. Ultimately, what is enivisioned is an expansive concept of security that considers cultural practices, space making, and communal formations as central to its formation

Securing pride : sexuality, security, and the post-apartheid state

In terms of human security, what remains unresolved in South Africa is for whom the state guarantees safety and security. Activists and scholars suggest that the state has been captured by corporate capital and guarantees the safety and security of those interests above all others. Using Soweto Pride as an example, this work demonstrates how cultural and representational practices become key sites for forging lasting forms of security for vulnerable populations. Research reveals a Queer Theory framework in relation to security sector reform might allow for framing security outside of carceral state practices

A proposed design methodology : introducing the poetics of architecture to an engineered structure

M.S.Charles Rudolp

Kwaito bodies : remastering space and subjectivity in post-apartheid South Africa /

Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of California, Berkeley, 2006.Includes bibliographical references and index