En fuite, on foot, in thought
Making the metropolis elusive
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5778800 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sally‐ann Murray (University of KwaZulu-Natal, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 102-124 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Current Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1013-929X • E-ISSN: 2159-9130 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1013929x.2005.9678223 |
| OpenAlex | W2043290928 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 4 |
Achille Mbembe and Sarah Nuttall (eds). 2004. Public Culture 16(3), Special Issue, "Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis". Durham NC: Duke University Press. The general claim of "Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis" is that this city is influential by virtue of a human possibility presently in formation. This human potential is reconfiguring the limitations of the apartheid spatial inheritance, the volatility of the democratic street, and the apparent superficiality of consumer culture. Among other matters, I consider the meanings given, across the volume, to intellectuals 'walking in the city'; to the metonymic use of 'voice'; to urban ethnography as a means of embodying Johannesburg's citiness; to the omission from the volume of Johannesburg as represented in fiction. These considerations all enter my argument that affirming 'the metropolitan' as a preferred marker of modern South African identity is more complex in its implications than is allowed by the essays in this collection
Alienation · Archaeology · Argument (complex analysis · Democracy · Ethnography · Media studies · Metropolitan area · Political science · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Anthropology · History · Law · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · South African History and Culture
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |