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Anxious Joburg : the inner lives of a global south city

Nicky Falkof (Editor), Cobus Van Staden (Editor)
Anxious Joburg is a rigorous, critical new discussion of Johannesburg as a paradigmatic example of a contemporary global South city. It considers localised manifestations of the late capitalist experience of pervasive anxiety as a structuring principle of urban life, and provides snapshots of the daily lived experience in this city
eBook, English, 2020
Wits University Press, Johannesburg, 2020
1 online resource
9781776146291, 9781776146307, 1776146298, 1776146301
1199328847
FRONT COVER
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
LIST OF FIGURES
MAPPING ANXIETY IN GREATER JOHANNESBURG
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION: TRAVERSING THE ANXIOUS METROPOLIS
TAXI DIARIES I: WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN JOBURG?
1 'WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER': GLOBAL CITIZEN, VIOLENCE AND ANXIETY IN JOHANNESBURG
2 'IT'S NOT NICE TO BE POOR IN JOBURG': COMPENSATED RELATIONSHIPS AS SOCIAL SURVIVAL IN THE CITY
3 DRIVING, CYCLING AND IDENTITY IN JOHANNESBURG
TAXI DIARIES II: TRAVELLING WHILE FEMALE 4 'THE WHITE CENTRELINE VANISHES': FRAGILITY AND ANXIETY IN THE ELUSIVE METROPOLIS
5 UGLY NOO-NOOS AND SUBURBAN NIGHTMARES
6 THE UNRULY IN THE ANODYNE: NATURE IN GATED COMMUNITIES
7 THE CHINATOWN BACK ROOM: THE AFTERLIFE OF APARTHEID ARCHITECTURES
8 SHIFTING TOPOGRAPHIES OF THE ANXIOUS CITY
9 PHOTOGRAPHY AND RELIGION IN ANXIOUS JOBURG
10 MAROONED: SEEKING ASYLUM AS A TRANSGENDER PERSON IN JOHANNESBURG
11 EVERYDAY URBANISMS OF FEAR IN JOHANNESBURG'S PERIPHERY: THE CASE OF SOL PLAATJE SETTLEMENT
12 INNER-CITY ANXIETIES: FEAR OF CRIME, GETTING BY AND DISCONNECTED URBAN LIVES TAXI DIARIES III: AND NOW YOU ARE IN JOBURG
AFTERWORD: URBAN ATMOSPHERES
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
BACK COVER