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Anxious Joburg : the inner lives of a global south city / edited by Nicky Falkof and Cobus van Staden.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City and town life.
- Johannesburg (South Africa)--Social conditions.
- Johannesburg (South Africa).
- City and town life--South Africa--Johannesburg.
- South Africa--Johannesburg.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 14, 2020).
- ISBN:
- 9781776146291
- 1776146298
- 9781776146307
- 1776146301
- Publisher Number:
- 99988680291
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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