Sarah Nuttall and Achille Mbembé, eds. ; with an afterword by Arjun Appadurai and Carol A. Breckenridge.
Durham :
Duke University Press,
2008.
1 online resource (viii, 398 pages) :
illustrations
A public culture book
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Aesthetics of superfluity / Achille Mbembé -- 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 / Frødøric Le Marcis -- Literary city / Sarah Nuttall.
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Collection of scholarly and creative essays on Johannesburg that focus on the city's modern and cosmopolitan status within Africa and the world.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
JSTOR
22573/ctv123zw9b
Johannesburg.
Sociology, Urban-- South Africa-- Johannesburg.
Civilization.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.