Böcker i A Public Culture book-serien

This title addresses the question of whether cosmopolitanism - ways of thinking, feeling, and acting beyond one's particular society - is simply the universalism of a Western particular.

Suitable for students and scholars of anthropology, geography, sociology, planning, and urban studies, and globalisation and political science, this volume demonstrates, however, that cities are especially salient sites for examining the renegotiations of citizenship, democracy, and national belonging.

Contains essays that include an investigation of representation and self-stylization in Johannesburg, an ethnographic examination of friction zones and practices of social reproduction in inner-city Johannesburg, and a discussion of the economic and literary relationship between Johannesburg and Maputo, Mozambique's capital.