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“That’s my locie!”Narratives of place in Salt River through the lens of drinking
establishments
Alcohol Cape Town
Evan BlakeMSocSc Candidate
African Centre for CitiesUniversity of Cape Town
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Outline
1. Geographies of alcohol literature focusing on place
2. Salt River as a place: context, The Local and The Immigrant
3. South African ‘Cityness’ literature
4. Reading the locie: Familiar place into foreign space and The locie place
5. Reflections: Bastion of memory
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1. Space and place in geographis of drinking
• Literature exploring place and meaning making in geographies of alcohol – very situated literature
• Jayne, Valentine and Holloway’s call to geographers – writing the place of drinking geographies across the world – what may very localised drinking in different places look like? What does this speak to at broader scales?
• Using other literatures to contextualise place making and drinking to South African contexts?
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2. Establishing place: Salt River
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The ‘Local’ and the ‘Locie’
Salt River: water colour by Tony Grogan
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The immigrant
• Unique cultures emerging from SR spaces from these groups
• Drinking places with a sense of community, spaces are varied in nature
• Form ‘the other’ as seen by ‘the locals’
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3. Reflecting back on alc geog lit
• Narrative and imagination as important place making processes in the context of Salt River’s drinking estb.
• Very contextual drinking places emerging: e.g. The Locie
• ‘Placeness’ is present in literature geographies of alcohol and place however contexts are very different
• Need for a theoretical underpinning to contextualise places like those in Salt River
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A theory of ‘Cityness’
“ ‘Citiness’ we understood as made up of excess, simultaneity, speed, appearance, rapid
alternations, relentless change, and indeed ceaseless mutability and discontinuous eventfulness:
transience. An analysis based on political economy alone can hardly account for the changing
inventory and the rich textuality of Johannesburg’s citiness, its unsettled appearances, and its
restlessness: the simultaneity of order, disruption, and abrupt interruptions; the incessant labor of
framing, reframing, and unframing; of destroying, renovating, and reconstructing; of juxtaposing
and segregating; of reiterating and deleting; of triviality, vulgarity, and refinement; of shock,
ephemerality, and enchantment.”
Mbembe and Nuttall: Writing the World From An African Metropolis, 2004
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4. Reading the locie
Familiar place into foreign ‘other’ space• Familiar places of family, friends and the past – now
places for immigrants
• Not understood as places by ‘the locals’: foreign space, space of the unfamiliar and dangerous
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• Place of past and present
• Place of collected memory
• Community as a central component to the place
• Claims to this sense of community and place
• Community for who?
The ‘locie’ place
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5. Bastion of Memory