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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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Additional Authors

• Nuttall, Sarah.
• Mbembe, Achille, 1957-

Description

viii, 398 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Johannesburg (South Africa) > Social conditions
• Johannesburg (South Africa) > Civilization
• Sociology, Urban > South Africa > Johannesburg

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