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Title:
Johannesburg : the elusive metropolis / edited by Sarah Nuttall and Achille Mbembe ; with an afterword by Arjun Appadurai and Carol A. Breckenridge.
Publisher:
Duke University Press,
Copyright Date:
2008
Description:
viii, 398 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Johannesburg (South Africa)--Social conditions.
Johannesburg (South Africa)--Civilization.
Sociology, Urban--Johannesburg.--Johannesburg.
Other Authors:
Nuttall, Sarah.
Mbembé, J.-A., 1957-
Notes:
"A public culture book"--Prelim. p. Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-373) and index.
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 / Frédéric le Marcis -- Literary city / Sarah Nuttall.
ISBN:
0822342847 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822342847 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822342626 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822342625 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN:
2008019636
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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