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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. The volume’s essays include an investigation of representation and self-stylization in the city, an ethnographic examination of friction zones and practices of social reproduction in inner-city Johan

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Author

Simone Abdoumaliq; Prabhala Achal; Mbembe Achille; Appadurai Arjun; Breckenridge Carol A; Bunn David; De Vries Fred; Le Marcis Frederic; Khunou Grace; Matshikiza John; Hyslop Jonathan; Hornberger Julia; Bremner Lindsay; Gevisser Mark; Achille Mbembe; Dlamini Nsizwa; Sarah Nuttall; Muponde Robert; Nuttall Sarah; AbdouMaliq Simone; HelgessonXXecontributorXX4ctbXX4https://idlocgov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Stefan; OdhiamboXXecontributorXX4ctbXX4https://idlocgov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Tom; LivermonXXecontributorXX4ctbXX4https://idlocgov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Xavier

Publisher

Duke University Press; Duke University Press Books

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9786612903939

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Political Science

Rating

4 / 5 (9 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14