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Anxious Joburg : The inner lives of a 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 imagine...

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Otros Autores: Van Staden, Cobus (Editor , Herausgeber.), Falkof, Nicky (Editor , Herausgeber.)
Formato: Electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Johannesburg, South Africa Wits University Press 2020
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