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Cities of Entanglements : Social Life in Johannesburg and Maputo Through Ethnographic Comparison / Barbara Heer.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Urban StudiesPublisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (340 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783839447970
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Content -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Navigating Belonging? -- Intimate Encounters? -- A Politics of Loss? -- A Politics of Proximity? -- Building Communities? -- Spaces of Freedom? -- Closing Remarks -- Postscript: Entangled Comparers -- Bibliography
Summary: 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, and 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.
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Frontmatter -- Content -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Navigating Belonging? -- Intimate Encounters? -- A Politics of Loss? -- A Politics of Proximity? -- Building Communities? -- Spaces of Freedom? -- Closing Remarks -- Postscript: Entangled Comparers -- Bibliography

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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, and 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.

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