{"product_id":"johannesburg-9780822342847","title":"Johannesburg","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohannesburg is Africa's premier metropolis. This work reassesses classic theories of metropolitan modernity as it explores the experience of 'citiness' and urban life in post-apartheid South Africa. This work includes an ethnographic examination of friction zones and practices of social reproduction in inner-city Johannesburg.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An extraordinary exploration of what is so often left out of accounts about cities: what is beneath and what is at the edge. It goes where much of the urban scholarship leaves off or, rather, trails off. The authors’ project to write Johannesburg into today’s history will serve as a compass to enable researchers and writers to engage other cities that have been left out of history or given a narrow colonial presence.”—\u003cb\u003eSaskia Sassen\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eTerritory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Taken together, the essays in \u003ci\u003eJohannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis\u003c\/i\u003e offer radically new ways of thinking about this complex city, as well as many hints about emerging or re-emerging cities elsewhere. The essays challenge dominant models of urbanism and demonstrate with force and subtlety how African cities in general and Johannesburg in particular outpace urban theory. Each essay ‘de-scribes’ the city now in order to envision the city to come. In this volume, we hear—over the droning clichés that still circulate about the African city’s ruin and decadence—another note, another cadence.”—\u003cb\u003eAckbar Abbas\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eHong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Afropolis \/ Achille Mbembe and Sarah Nuttall 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Aesthetics of Superfluity \/ Achille Mbembe 37\u003cbr\u003e 2. People as Infrastructure \/ Abdoumaliq Simone 68\u003cbr\u003e 3. Stylizing the Self \/ Sarah Nuttall 91\u003cbr\u003e 4. Gandhi, Mandela, and the African Modern \/ Jonathan Hyslop 119\u003cbr\u003e 5. Art Johannesburg and Its Objects \/ David Bunn 137\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Suffering Body of the City \/ Frédéric Le Marcis 170\u003cbr\u003e 7. Literary City \/ Sarah Nuttall 195\u003cbr\u003e Voice Lines \u003cbr\u003e Instant City \/ John Matshikiza 221\u003cbr\u003e Soweto Now \/ Achille Mbembe, Nsizwa Dlamini, and Grace Khunou 239\u003cbr\u003e The Arrivants \/ Tom Odhiambo and Robert Muponde 248\u003cbr\u003e Johannesburg, Metropolis of Mozambique \/ Stefan Helgesson 259\u003cbr\u003e Sounds in the City \/ Xavier Livermon 271\u003cbr\u003e Nocturnal Johannesburg \/ Julia Hornberger 285\u003cbr\u003e Megamalls, Generic City \/ Fred De Vries 297\u003cbr\u003e Yeoville Confidential \/ Achal Prabhala 307\u003cbr\u003e From the Ruins \/ Mark Gevisser 317\u003cbr\u003e Reframing Township Space \/ Lindsay Bremner 337\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: The Risk of Johannesburg \/ Arjun Appadurai and Carol A. Breckenridge 349\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 355\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 375\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406052532567,"sku":"9780822342847","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822342847.jpg?v=1730494368","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/johannesburg-9780822342847","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}