Print Email Facebook Twitter A changing village: Second homeownership in Rhodes, South Africa Part of: Conference Building on home ownership: housing policies and social strategies· list the conference papers Title A changing village: Second homeownership in Rhodes, South Africa Author Hoogendoorn, G. Date 2008-11-13 Abstract Papers workshops. Rural geographies have changed significantly over the past half century. These reconfigured geographies are increasingly denoted as evolving from a productivist to a post-productivist state and second home development has increasingly been implicated as contributing to such change. This paper considers this post-productivist contention in the context of Rhodes, South Africa. It is argued that second home development is contributing towards an emerging post-productivist countryside. This argument is developed through three sections of discussion and analysis. Firstly, changes such as diversification, dispersion and extensification within the post-productivist countryside, has predominantly coincided with the advent of an open agricultural economy which was ushered in during the first years of inclusive democracy in South Africa. Secondly, a subsidiary intention of this investigation is to delineate how second homeownership as part of the larger tourism industry has contributed to the economic diversification of the Rhodes countryside. Thirdly, a broad analysis of the impact of second home ownership is given with reference to its social and economic influence. The paper concludes that, coinciding with the post-productivist changes in the Rhodes countryside, second home ownership has contributed to job creation and has had a varied tourism and regional impact which has added much needed support to the economy of the town. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:15927e47-7193-4a0e-a367-4b45cfa1ccdf Part of collection Conference proceedings Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2008 Hoogendoorn, G. Files PDF Hoogendoorn.pdf 443.87 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:15927e47-7193-4a0e-a367-4b45cfa1ccdf/datastream/OBJ/view