Nicky Falkof is Associate Professor in Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Cobus van Staden is a senior researcher at the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) and is affiliated with the Department of Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Derek Hook is an associate professor of Psychology at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, USA, and a research affiliate in Psychology at the Universities of Pretoria and the Witwatersrand in South Africa. He is the author of Critical Psychology of the Postcolonial: The Mind of Apartheid and Steve Biko.

B. Camminga is a postdoctoral fellow in the African Centre for Migration and Society at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Mingwei Huang is an assistant professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Dartmouth College.

Lebohang Masango is a poet, author and UNICEF South Africa advocate for volunteerism. She has a MA in Social Anthropology from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Joel Cabrita teaches African History in the Department of History at Stanford University.

Sabelo Mlangeni is a photographer based in Johannesburg and his work has been widely exhibited locally and internationally.

Njogu Morgan is a postdoctoral researcher in the History Workshop at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Aidan Mosselson is an urban geographer and sociologist, and is currently a Newton International Fellow based in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, University of Sheffield.

Khangelani Moyo is an associate researcher at the Global Change Institute (GCI), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Renugan Raidoo is a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at Harvard University. He holds an MPhil in Social Anthropology from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Antonia Steyn graduated from the University of Cape Town and is a professional photographer. She won the Vuleka Art Award and was selected as one of the Mail & Guardian 200 Young South Africans in 2011.

Baeletsi Tsatsi is a storyteller, writer and facilitator based in Johannesburg. She studied at the Market Theatre Laboratory, the International School of Storytelling and the Centre for Biographical Storytelling.

Sisonke Msimang is a fellow at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and is the author of Always Another Country (2017) and The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela (2018).

Sarah Nuttall is Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies and director of the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Anxious Joburg The inner lives of a global South city

Falkof Nicky van Staden, Cobus Hook Derek Se alle

Heftet / 2020 / Engelsk

Falkof Nicky van Staden, Cobus Hook Derek Se alle

Heftet / 2020 / Engelsk

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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 North’s 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. The approach is strongly interdisciplinary, with contributions from media studies, anthropology, religious studies, urban geography, migration studies and psychology. It will appeal to students and teachers, as well as to academic researchers concerned with Johannesburg, South Africa, cities and the global South. The mix of approaches will also draw a non-academic audience.

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Focuses on Johannesburg, the largest and wealthiest city in South Africa, as a case study for the contemporary global South city. Anxious Joburg invites readers to consider an intimate perspective of living inside such a city.

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Map of Johannesburg – Naadira PatelForeword – Sisonke MsimangIntroduction: Traversing the anxious metropolis – Nicky Falkof and Cobus van Staden Taxi Diaries I What are you doing in Joburg? – Baeletsi Tsatsi Chapter 1 ‘We are all in this together’: Global Citizen, violence and anxiety in Johannesburg – Cobus van StadenChapter 2 ‘It’s not nice to be poor in Joburg’: Compensated relationships as social survival in the city – Lebohang Masango Chapter 3 Driving, cycling and identity in Johannesburg – Njogu MorganTaxi Diaries II Travelling while female – Baeletsi Tsatsi Chapter 4 ‘The white centreline vanishes’: Fragility and anxiety in the elusive metropolis – Derek HookChapter 5 Ugly noo-noos and suburban nightmares – Nicky FalkofChapter 6 The unruly in the anodyne: Nature in gated communities – Renugan RaidooChapter 7 The Chinatown back room: The afterlife of apartheid architectures – Mingwei HuangChapter 8 Shifting topographies of the anxious city – Antonia SteynChapter 9 Photography and religion in anxious Joburg – Joel Cabrita and Sabelo MlangeniChapter 10 Marooned: Seeking asylum as a transgender person in Johannesburg – B. CammingaChapter 11 Everyday urbanisms of fear in Johannesburg’s periphery: The case of Sol Plaatje settlement – Khangelani MoyoChapter 12 Inner-city anxieties: Fear of crime, getting by and disconnected urban lives – Aidan MosselsonTaxi Diaries III And now you are in Joburg – Baeletsi TsatsiAfterword: Urban atmospheres – Sarah NuttallContributorsIndex

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Examines Johannesburg as a city of multitudinous and contradictory anxieties, showing how anxiety is an overlooked but vital structuring principle of contemporary life.

Anxiety might be terrifying, says Kierkegaard, but it speaks to the possibility of possibility. So, too, do the luminous, edgy essays assembled here, that make palpable the abrasive friction, the alchemy of abjection and ebullience, that drives Johannesburg’s creativity and its unlikely glamour. If the melange of empire, market, and consumer desire made Paris the ‘capital of modernity,’ Joburg’s nervous disorder – its concatenation of law and lawlessness, panic and pleasure, ruin and reinvention – make it a prime model of the 21st century metropolis. Not only in the global south, but everywhere. – Professor Jean Comaroff, Harvard University

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Examines Johannesburg as a city of multitudinous and contradictory anxieties, showing how anxiety is an overlooked but vital structuring principle of contemporary life.

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