Urban secrets? Affinities and anthropologies of South African cities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2186903 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Corinne A Kratz (Emory University), Corinne Kratz (Emory University), Jill Weintroub (0000-0002-3385-2926, University of the Witwatersrand, corresponding author), Nancy Murray (0000-0003-2016-3651, University of the Witwatersrand) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-13 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology Southern Africa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2332-3264 • E-ISSN: 2332-3256 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/23323256.2019.1610006 |
| OpenAlex | W2944052749 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 38 |
This paper reflects on the discussions of a collective of academics in and around Johannesburg, Africa's iconic city built on the extractive capital of gold mining. Captured aptly in William Kentridge's art film Johannesburg: Second Greatest City after Paris (1989), the city is brought into an imaginary relationship with a romanticised Parisian experience. This comparison is taken up through an endeavour to read, re-read, imagine and re-imagine Johannesburg in relation to visions of the French capital contained in the writings in Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project with its "convolutes" of the Parisian arcades of the nineteenth century. The authors locate these discussions within debates addressed to urban anthropology in South Africa now, delving into the theories, methods and insights presented in a scholarly meeting and associated city tour held in 2017, and through the papers submitted for this special issue. This essay considers how an authorial collaboration comprising an anthropologist, historian and an architect might contribute differently to debates current in the spatial disciplines and anthropology, and how such a multi-disciplinary reading of a seminal text about a European city might resonate with our location in Southern Africa
Affinities · Biology · Ethnology · Geography · Sociology · Anthropology · South African History and Culture · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Water Governance and Infrastructure
Ethnography
The Future in Ruins
The Interpretation of Cultures
A Space on the Side of the Road
Mobile Secrets
Desire Lines
Paris, Capital of Modernity
Pioneers of the Field
Taming the Disorderly City
Changing Space, Changing City
Johannesburg
The Arts of Citizenship in African Cities
Exploring the City. Inquiries Toward an Urban Anthropology
The Colonies in Concrete
Red Assembly
Spiritual Rope-Walkers
Analysis of a Social Situation in Modern Zululand
Ethnography as Commentary
The practice of everyday life
Garbage Citizenship
Introduction
Working with our grandparents' illusions
The Anthropology of Cities
Analysis of a Social Situation in Modern Zululand
Experimental forms for the expression of norms in the ethnography of the contemporary
The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure
The Legacies of Writing Culture and the Near Future of the Ethnographic Form
Clockpunk Anthropology and the Ruins of Modernity
Some processes of social change illustrated from Zululand
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |