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Johannesburg : the elusive metropolis
- Title
- Johannesburg : the elusive metropolis / edited by Sarah Nuttall and Achille Mbembe ; with an afterword by Arjun Appadurai and Carol A. Breckenridge.
- Publication
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
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- Description
- viii, 398 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Note
- "A public culture book"--Prelim. p.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-373) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction. Afropolis / Achille Mbembe and Sarah Nuttall -- 1. Aesthetics of Superfluity / Achille Mbembe -- 2. People as Infrastructure / Abdoumaliq Simone -- 3. Stylizing the Self / Sarah Nuttall -- 4. Gandhi, Mandela, and the African Modern / Jonathan Hyslop -- 5. Art Johannesburg and Its Objects / David Bunn -- 6. The Suffering Body of the City / Frederic Le Marcis -- 7. Literary City / Sarah Nuttall -- Voice Lines -- Instant City / John Matshikiza -- Soweto Now / Achille Mbembe, Nsizwa Dlamini and Grace Khunou -- The Arrivants / Tom Odhiambo and Robert Muponde -- Johannesburg, Metropolis of Mozambique / Stefan Helgesson -- Sounds in the City / Xavier Livermon -- Nocturnal Johannesburg / Julia Hornberger -- Megamalls, Generic City / Fred De Vries -- Yeoville Confidential / Achal Prabhala -- From the Ruins / Mark Gevisser -- Reframing Township Space / Lindsay Bremner -- Afterword: The Risk of Johannesburg / Arjun Appadurai and Carol A. Breckenridge.
- ISBN
- 9780822342625 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0822342626 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780822342847 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0822342847 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008019636
- OCLC
- ocn209334991
- 209334991
- SCSB-5445532
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries