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As such, these stories are replete with wild mixtures of various feelings and astute intelligence, reminding us how little we know about the cities where we live.While the rest of the world sleeps, a select few are rising. Tanya Zack and Mark Lewis give us stories and images of individuals residing in neighborhoods heading in all directions at once, places where everything is up for grabs. “Johannesburg’s inner city can seem like a malevolent playground with its equipment scattered across broken fields, but it is still a place for life to reinvent itself. Illuminating parts of the city that readers may know little or nothing about, this book is a beautifully executed, smart, and elegant contribution.” - Danny Hoffman, author of Monrovia Modern: Urban Form and Political Imagination in Liberia By digging down into a range of compelling stories, Mark Lewis and Tanya Zack give their readers a rich and textured entrée into the inventiveness, precarity, and contingency that shape the lived experiences of Johannesburg’s residents. “ Wake Up, This is Joburg is a fantastic, creative work that offers a broad look at one of Africa’s most vibrant and intriguing cities. It provides a fresh perspective on life, struggle, survival, creativity and uniqueness in one of Africa’s major cities.' - Chris Heymans, litnet This is an extraordinary book, with beautiful, powerful photographs and a sensitive, robust and accessible narrative. The stories they tell are deeply human and individualised, yet cleverly interwoven within Johannesburg’s broader racial, social and economic anomalies.

'There is rich nuance in Tanya Zack’s flowing, sensitive narrative and Mark Lewis’s striking photography. Rather than criminalise their activities, these stories provoke readers to ‘wake up’ and pay attention to those who make this city a fascinating but enigmatic place to live.' - Denise L. 'Wake Up, This Is Joburg effectively frames Johannesburg as one of the continent’s most important entrepôts where people journey from various nodes of the country and continent to earn a decent living. Wake Up, This Is Joburg tells its range of interesting stories well, through on-the-ground reporting, with ample interviews and context, letting a variety of people around Johannesburg talk about both the struggles and successes of everyday life in the inner city.' 'These pieces are sometimes sad, sometimes inspiring, and add up to a complicated picture of a city of contradictions.

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Sharing people’s private and work lives and the extraordinary spaces of the metropolis, Zack and Lewis show that Johannesburg’s urban transformation occurs not in a series of dramatic, wide-scale changes but in the everyday lives, actions, and dreams of individuals.

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Their photos and essays take readers into meat markets where butchers chop cow heads the eclectic home of an outsider artist that features turrets and full of manikins long-abandoned gold pits beneath the city, where people continue to mine informally and lively markets, taxi depots, and residential high-rises. In Wake Up, This Is Joburg, writer Tanya Zack and photographer Mark Lewis offer a stunning portrait of Johannesburg and personal stories of some of the city’s ordinary, odd, and outrageous residents. It reveals the city as carcass and as crucible, where informal agents and processes spearhead its rapid reshaping and transformation. Labor and Working-Class History AssociationĪ single image taken from a high-rise building in inner-city Johannesburg uncovers layers of history-from its premise and promise of gold to its current improvisations.Association for Middle East Women's Studies.Author Resources from University Presses.Permissions Information for Journal Authors.Journals fulfilled by DUP Journal Services.

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