Cities of Entanglements
Autor: | Barbara Heer |
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EAN: | 9783839447970 |
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Sprache: | Englisch |
Produktart: | eBook |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 23.09.2019 |
Untertitel: | Social Life in Johannesburg and Maputo Through Ethnographic Comparison |
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Schlagworte: | Africa Africa City Diversity Enclaves Encounter Entanglements Ethnology Ethnology Johannesburg Maputo Mozambique Neighbourhood Segregation Shopping Malls Soc Sociology South Africa Urban Religion Urban Studies Urbanity |
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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.
Barbara Heer, born in 1982, is an anthropologist living in Basel. She holds a PhD from the University of Basel. Her work focuses on urban diversity in Southern Africa and Switzerland. She is engaged in practice and politics.