Nuttall / Mbembe Johannesburg

The Elusive Metropolis
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8121-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 392 Seiten

Reihe: a Public Culture Book

Collection of scholarly and creative essays on Johannesburg that focus on the city's modern and cosmopolitan status within Africa and the world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nuttall, Sarah

Mbembe, Achille

Weitere Mitwirkende

Simone, AbdouMaliq

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: Afropolis / Achille Mbembe and Sarah Nuttall 1

1. Aesthetics of Superfluity / Achille Mbembe 37

2. People as Infrastructure / Abdoumaliq Simone 68

3. Stylizing the Self / Sarah Nuttall 91

4. Gandhi, Mandela, and the African Modern / Jonathan Hyslop 119

5. Art Johannesburg and Its Objects / David Bunn 137

6. The Suffering Body of the City / Frédéric Le Marcis 170

7. Literary City / Sarah Nuttall 195

Voice Lines

Instant City / John Matshikiza 221

Soweto Now / Achille Mbembe, Nsizwa Dlamini, and Grace Khunou 239

The Arrivants / Tom Odhiambo and Robert Muponde 248

Johannesburg, Metropolis of Mozambique / Stefan Helgesson 259

Sounds in the City / Xavier Livermon 271

Nocturnal Johannesburg / Julia Hornberger 285

Megamalls, Generic City / Fred De Vries 297

Yeoville Confidential / Achal Prabhala 307

From the Ruins / Mark Gevisser 317

Reframing Township Space / Lindsay Bremner 337

Afterword: The Risk of Johannesburg / Arjun Appadurai and Carol A. Breckenridge 349

Bibliography 355

Contributors 375

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sarah Nuttall is Associate Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. She is the author of Entanglement: Literary and Cultural Reflections on Post-Apartheid (forthcoming) and an editor of several books, including Beautiful/Ugly: African and Diaspora Aesthetics, also published by Duke University Press.Achille Mbembe is Research Professor in History and Politics at WISER. He is the author of On the Postcolony and La naissance du maquis dans le Sud-Cameroun and a co-editor of Le politique par le bas en Afrique noire.