Johannesburg : the elusive metropolis / edited by Sarah Nuttall and Achille Mbembe ; with an afterword by Arjun Appadurai and Carol A. Breckenridge.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Nuttall, Sarah
Mbembe, Achille, 1957-
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Johannesburg (South Africa) > Social conditions.
Johannesburg (South Africa) > Civilization.
Sociology, Urban > South Africa > Johannesburg.
Physical Description:viii, 398 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
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.