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... in Johannesburg AbdouMaliq Simone The inner city of Johannesburg is about as far away as one can get from the Tpopular image of the African village. Though one of Africa’s most urbanized settings, it is also seen as a place of ruins—of ruined urbanization, the ruining...

...Sarah Nuttall © 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Sarah Nuttall is a senior researcher at WISER (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand) in Johannesburg. She is coeditor of Text, Theory, Space: Land, Literature,and History in South Africa...

... (disaster, security, energy, and transportation) across four cities of the global South (Bogotá, Karachi, Accra, and Johannesburg). In each city, uncertainty is produced by historical conditions and productive of future possibilities. 2015 cities governance infrastructure planning uncertainty...

...Mingwei Huang Abstract This article tells a story about the unfolding “Chinese Century” in South Africa centered on China Malls, wholesale shopping centers for Chinese goods that have cropped up along Johannesburg's old mining belt since the early 2000s. Based in ethnographic and historical...

... of the Witwatersrand and a senior researcher at WISER (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand)in Johannesburg. He is the author of On the Postcolony (2001) and The Political Life of Sovereignty (forthcoming). Sarah Nuttall is a senior researcher at WISER (Wits Institute...

...John Matshikiza © 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 John Matshikiza is an accomplished actor, playwright, and director. He is currently an associate editor and columnist for the Mail and Guardian (Johannesburg) and is completing a biography of his father, Todd Matshikiza. Voice...

... and Guardian (Johannesburg), April 7. ———. 2004b . Instant city. Public Culture 16 : 479 -95. Mbembe, Achille. 2002a . African modes of self-writing. Public Culture 14 : 239 -73. ———. 2002b . On the power of the false. Public Culture 14 : 629 -41. ———. 2004 . Aesthetics...

...Achille Mbembe © 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Achille Mbembe is a research professor in history and politics at the University of the Witwatersrand and a senior researcher at WISER (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand)in Johannesburg...

...Rodney Place © 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Rodney Place is an artist living and working in Johannesburg and Warsaw. He has exhibited internationally, concentrating on large multimedia projects that engage conditions of urbanism. RETREKS (1999-2002)explored emerging...

... seminar series at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand,Johannesburg, February 25. wiserweb.wits.ac.za/PDF%20Files/sex%20-%20posel . PDF. Shisana, Olive, and Leickness Simbayi. 2002 . Nelson Mandela/HSRC study of HIV/AIDS: South African national HIV...

... back long before apartheid. The building is the new Constitutional Court, and it is being erected on the site of the Old Fort, Johannesburg’s notorious prison complex. On this 95,000-square-meter site, the municipal and provincial governments are developing a major urban regeneration project...

...Sarah Nuttall; Achille Mbembe © 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Sarah Nuttall is a senior researcher at WISER (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand) in Johannesburg. Achille Mbembe is a research professor in history and politics...

...Lindsay Bremner © 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Lindsay Bremner is chair of architecture at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand. She is the author of Johannesburg: One City, Colliding Worlds (2004) and coeditor of Emerging...

...Elizabeth A. Povinelli 2004 Johannesburg—The Elusive Metropolis Sarah Nuttall Achille Mbembe Guest Editors Public Culture Society for Transnational Cultural Studies...

... 2004 Johannesburg—The Elusive Metropolis Sarah Nuttall Achille Mbembe Guest Editors Public Culture Society for Transnational Cultural Studies...

... of resistance, epitomized in a vicious assault on the streets of Johannesburg by a group of Pathan veterans, and the second was Smuts’s refusal to withdraw the original act. By the end of 1908, Gandhi’s campaign of mass resistance had col- lapsed...

... University Press. Her current research interests include the emotions in Hindi cinema and the cultural history of the Indian elephant. Pamila Gupta is a senior researcher based at WISER (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research) at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South...

... and politics at the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is also a member of the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism (JWTC) and a visiting professor at Duke University. His forthcoming book, Critique de la raison nègre, will be published in Paris in 2010...

... during the centenary year, the first in 267 Public Culture Johannesburg, at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER) of the University of the Witwatersrand, and the second in Mumbai...

... for the Study of Ethnicity and Race. Achille Mbembe is research professor in history and politics at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, a senior researcher at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER...