Cities of Entanglements

Social Life in Johannesburg and Maputo Through Ethnographic Comparison

DOI: 10.14361/9783839447970

Heer, Barbara

Abstract

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 a suburb in Johannesburg, in a bairro and in an elite neighborhood in Maputo, the book includes case studies of relations between domestic workers and their employers, failed attempts by urban elites to close off their neighborhoods, and entanglements emerging in religious spaces and in shopping malls. Systematizing comparison as an experience-based method, the book makes an important contribution to urban anthropology, comparative urbanism and urban studies.

Das Buch ist [...] für all jene Stadtforscher_innen geeignet, die an African urbanism interessiert sind oder nach neuen theoretischen Konzepten als Werkzeuge kritischer Stadtforschung suchen.

2021-05-03Nicole Baron, sub \\ urban, 9/1-2 (2021)

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- Frontmatter
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- Content
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- Acknowledgements
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- Introduction
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- Navigating Belonging?
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- Intimate Encounters?
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- A Politics of Loss?
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- A Politics of Proximity?
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- Building Communities?
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- Spaces of Freedom?
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- Closing Remarks
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- Postscript: Entangled Comparers
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- Bibliography
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eISBN PDF: 978-3-8394-4797-0
eISBN ePUB: 978-3-7328-4797-6
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Seitenumfang: 340
BIC-Code: JFSG JHMC
BISAC-Code: SOC026030 SOC002010
THEMA: JBSD JHMC

Creative Commons Lizenz: cc-by
Verlag: transcript Verlag
Schlagworte: Urban Anthropology, Johannesburg, Maputo, Urban Studies, Segregation, Diversity, Neighbourhood, Shopping Malls, Urban Religion, Africa, South Africa, Mozambique, Enclaves, Encounter, Entanglements, Urbanity, City, Ethnology, Sociology,

Das Buch ist [...] für all jene Stadtforscher_innen geeignet, die an African urbanism interessiert sind oder nach neuen theoretischen Konzepten als Werkzeuge kritischer Stadtforschung suchen.

2021-05-03Nicole Baron, sub \\ urban, 9/1-2 (2021)

This very well-written book [...] addresses a number of critical questions to both urban studies and anthropology in doing so. This capacity and willingness to engage conventions within the two disciplines makes the book important, highly readable, and valuable to scholars well beyond those interested in the cities of Maputo and Johannesburg.

2020-12-10Bjorn Enge Bertelsen, Anthropos, 115 (2020)

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