Cities of entanglements : : social life in Johannesburg and Maputo through ethnographic comparison / / Barbara Heer.

How do people live together in cities shaped by inequality? This comparative ethnography of two African cities, Maputo and Johannesburg, presents a new narrative about social life in cities often described as sharply divided. Based on the ethnography of entangled lives unfolding in a township and in...

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Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld, Germany : : Transcript Verlag,, [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Urban Studies
Physical Description:1 online resource (340 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter 1 Content 5 Acknowledgements 7 Introduction 9 Navigating Belonging? 45 Intimate Encounters? 81 A Politics of Loss? 119 A Politics of Proximity? 147 Building Communities? 191 Spaces of Freedom? 221 Closing Remarks 271 Postscript: Entangled Comparers 277 Bibliography 303