Anxious Joburg: The Inner Lives of a Global South City

by Aidan Mosselson, Njogu Morgan, Cobus Van Staden, et al.

Book Overview

An interdisciplinary account of the life of Johannesburg, South Africa's "global south city"

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 177614628X
• ISBN13: 9781776146284
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Wits University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"