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Title Anxious Joburg : the inner lives of a global south city / edited by Nicky Falkof and Cobus van Staden.

Publication Info. Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2020.

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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
Summary 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.
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Subject Johannesburg (South Africa) -- Social conditions.
City and town life -- South Africa -- Johannesburg.
City and town life.
South Africa -- Johannesburg.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Falkof, Nicky, editor.
Van Staden, Cobus, editor.
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