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Johannesburg : the elusive metropolis / Sarah Nuttall and Achille Mbembe, eds. ; with an afterword by Arjun Appadurai and Carol A. Breckenridge.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- A public culture book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociology, Urban--South Africa--Johannesburg.
- Sociology, Urban.
- Johannesburg (South Africa)--Social conditions.
- Johannesburg (South Africa).
- Johannesburg (South Africa)--Civilization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (408 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Collection of scholarly and creative essays on Johannesburg that focus on the city's modern and cosmopolitan status within Africa and the world.
- Contents:
- 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 / Frdric Le Marcis
- Literary city / Sarah Nuttall.
- Notes:
- "A public culture book"--Prelim. p.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612903939
- 9781282903937
- 1282903934
- 9780822381211
- 0822381214
- OCLC:
- 428433302
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