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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Managing distance: Rural poverty and the promise of communication in post-apartheid South Africa |
Author: | Skuse, A. Cousins, T. |
Citation: | Journal of Asian and African Studies, 2007; 42(2):185-207 |
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd |
Issue Date: | 2007 |
ISSN: | 0021-9096 1745-2538 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Andrew Skuse; Thomas Cousins |
Abstract: | This article examines rural telecommunications access and use among poor village households in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Discussion is based upon a content analysis of 165 telephone calls, as well as a broader information and communication technology (ICT) ownership, access and use survey undertaken in 50 poor households within a number of rural villages in the Mount Frere district. These data are complimented and supported by qualitative data emerging from a longer-term UK Department for International Development-funded study of ICT use and social communication practices among the urban and rural poor in South Africa. The purpose of the article is to: (i) question existing notions of telecommunications access; (ii) assess the extent to which rural inequalities are exacerbated or ameliorated by telecommunications access; and (iii) examine the extent to which telecommunications are enlisted as a strategic tool by poor households for maintaining kin-based redistributive networks and enhancing livelihood sustainability. |
Keywords: | livelihoods networks poverty South Africa telecommunications |
Description: | Copyright © 2007 SAGE Publications |
DOI: | 10.1177/0021909607074867 |
Published version: | http://jas.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/42/2/185 |
Appears in Collections: | Anthropology & Development Studies publications Aurora harvest |
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