Acknowledgements -- List of figures -- Mapping anxiety in greater Johanesburg -- 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.
Summary:
"Anxious Joburg focuses on Johannesburg, the largest and wealthiest city in South Africa, as a case study for the contemporary global South city. Global South cities are often characterised as sites of contradiction and difference that produce a range of feelings around anxiety. This is often imagined in terms of the global Northʹs anxieties about the South: migration, crime, terrorism, disease and environmental crisis. Anxious Joburg invites readers to consider an intimate perspective of living inside such a city. How does it feel to live in the metropolis of Johannesburg: what are the conditions, intersections, affects and experiences that mark the contemporary urban? Scholars, visual artists and storytellers, all look at unexamined aspects of Johannesburg life. From peripheral settlements to the inner city to the affluent northern suburbs, from precarious migrants and domestic workers to upwardly mobile young women and fearful elites, Anxious Joburg presents an absorbing engagement with this frustrating, dangerous, seductive city. It offers a rigorous, critical approach to Johannesburg revealing the way in which anxiety is a vital structuring principle of contemporary life". --Cover.
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