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Routes and Rites to the City: Mobility, Diversity and Religious Space in Johannesburg
Lorena Nunez (Ed.)
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Description for Routes and Rites to the City: Mobility, Diversity and Religious Space in Johannesburg
Hardback. Editor(s): Nunez, Lorena; Malcomess, Bettina; Wilhelm-Solomon, Matthew; Kankonde Bukasa, Peter. Series: Global Diversities. Num Pages: 329 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; HRAM; JFSG; JHMC; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 218 x 25. Weight in Grams: 566.
This thought-provoking book is an exploration of the ways religion and diverse forms of mobility have shaped post-apartheid Johannesburg, South Africa. It analyses transnational and local migration in contemporary and historical perspective, along with movements of commodities, ideas, sounds and colours within the city. It re-theorizes urban `super-diversity' as a plurality of religious, ethnic, national and racial groups but also as the diverse processes through which religion produces urban space. The authors argue that while religion facilitates movement, belonging and aspiration in the city, it is complicit in establishing new forms of enclosure, moral order and spatial and gendered control. ... Read more
This thought-provoking book is an exploration of the ways religion and diverse forms of mobility have shaped post-apartheid Johannesburg, South Africa. It analyses transnational and local migration in contemporary and historical perspective, along with movements of commodities, ideas, sounds and colours within the city. It re-theorizes urban `super-diversity' as a plurality of religious, ethnic, national and racial groups but also as the diverse processes through which religion produces urban space. The authors argue that while religion facilitates movement, belonging and aspiration in the city, it is complicit in establishing new forms of enclosure, moral order and spatial and gendered control. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Global Diversities
Condition
New
Number of Pages
329
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137588890
SKU
V9781137588890
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Ref
99-15
About Lorena Nunez (Ed.)
Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon is a researcher and writer at the African Centre for Migration and Society, University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa. Lorena Nunez is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa. Peter Kankonde Bukasa is a doctoral researcher at the University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa, and the Max Planck Institute ... Read more
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