Title & Author:

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.

Description:

viii, 398 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
"A public culture book"--Preliminary page.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-373) and index.
Aesthetics of superfluity / Achille Mbembe -- People as infrastructure / Abdoumaliq Simone -- Stylizing the self / Sarah Nuttall -- Gandhi, Mandela, and the African modern / Jonathan Hyslop -- Art Johannesburg and its objects / David Bunn -- The suffering body of the city / Frédéric le Marcis -- Literary city / Sarah Nuttall.

Summary:

Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis is a pioneering effort to insert South Africa's largest city into urban theory, on its own terms. Johannesburg is Africa's premier metropolis. Yet theories of urbanization have cast it as an emblem of irresolvable crisis, the spatial embodiment of unequal economic relations and segregationist policies, and a city that responds to but does not contribute to modernity on the global scale. Complicating and contesting such characterizations, the contributors to this collection reassess classic theories of metropolitan modernity as they explore the experience of 'city-ness' and urban life in post-apartheid South Africa. They portray Johannesburg as a polycentric and international city with a hybrid history that continually permeates the present. Turning its back on rigid rationalities of planning and racial separation, Johannesburg has become a place of intermingling and improvisation, a city that is fast developing its own brand of cosmopolitan culture.

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ISBN:

9780822342625 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0822342626 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780822342847 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0822342847 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Sociology, Urban South Africa Johannesburg.
Sociologie urbaine Afrique du Sud Johannesburg.
Civilization
Social conditions
Sociology, Urban
Johannesburg (South Africa) Social conditions.
Johannesburg (South Africa) Civilization.
South Africa Johannesburg
Johannesburg

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Nuttall, Sarah.
Mbembe, Achille, 1957-
Appadurai, Arjun, 1949-
Breckenridge, Carol Appadurai, 1942-2009.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 261008
Call No.: BIB 191968
Status: Available