Anxious Joburg

Nicky Falkof (Editor) Nicky Falkof is Associate Professor in Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.Cobus van Staden (Editor) Cobus van Staden is a senior researcher at the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) and is affiliated with the Department of Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

"Anxiety might be terrifying, says Kierkegaard, but it speaks to the possibility of possibility.So, too, do the luminous, edgy essays assembled here, that make palpable the abrasivefriction, the alchemy of abjection and ebullience, that drives Johannesburg's creativity and itsunlikely glamour." - Professor Jean Comaroff, Harvard University "Falkof and Van Staden have curated a remarkable academic collaboration, able to engagesuch a turbulent landscape with both intellectual acuity and tenderness." - Professor Abdoumaliq Simone, University of Sheffield "In this most unequal city, what kind of constraints circumscribe our attempts to live an'authentic' life? Whether interrogating the Global Citizen festival or traversing the city by taxiwhile female or just simply riding a bike … a luta continua!" - Dr Melissa Tandiwe Myambo, editor of Reversing Urban Inequality in Johannesburg

• Map of Johannesburg – Naadira PatelForeword – Sisonke MsimangIntroduction: Traversing the anxious metropolis – Nicky Falkof and Cobus van Staden Taxi Diaries I What are you doing in Joburg? – Baeletsi Tsatsi Chapter 1 ‘We are all in this together’: Global Citizen, violence and anxiety in Johannesburg – Cobus van StadenChapter 2 ‘It’s not nice to be poor in Joburg’: Compensated relationships as social survival in the city – Lebohang Masango Chapter 3 Driving, cycling and identity in Johannesburg – Njogu MorganTaxi Diaries II Travelling while female – Baeletsi Tsatsi Chapter 4 ‘The white centreline vanishes’: Fragility and anxiety in the elusive metropolis – Derek HookChapter 5 Ugly noo-noos and suburban nightmares – Nicky FalkofChapter 6 The unruly in the anodyne: Nature in gated communities – Renugan RaidooChapter 7 The Chinatown back room: The afterlife of apartheid architectures – Mingwei HuangChapter 8 Shifting topographies of the anxious city – Antonia SteynChapter 9 Photography and religion in anxious Joburg – Joel Cabrita and Sabelo MlangeniChapter 10 Marooned: Seeking asylum as a transgender person in Johannesburg – B. CammingaChapter 11 Everyday urbanisms of fear in Johannesburg’s periphery: The case of Sol Plaatje settlement – Khangelani MoyoChapter 12 Inner-city anxieties: Fear of crime, getting by and disconnected urban lives – Aidan MosselsonTaxi Diaries III And now you are in Joburg – Baeletsi TsatsiAfterword: Urban atmospheres – Sarah NuttallContributorsIndex