Abstract
This is a discussion about the ways in which the composition of households is changing in the inner city of Johannesburg. In many ways, it is a small story, which can be understood by intensifications in the vulnerability of urban life, of accelerated and sweeping changes to which many urban residents have a hard time adapting. And so they attempt to do the best that they can. But from small stories can also emerge important inclinations of productivity. Something is in the process of being brought to life, something specific to a particular set of urban conditions, but also something capable of radically altering the notion of what urban life is and can be. So this brief pointing to a diversification of household form can also point to ways in which cities themselves attempt to exceed their own capacities, and how constraint and possibility can emerge from the seeming process of things falling apart.
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Simone, A.M. (2008). Remaking Urban Socialities. In: Rieker, M., Ali, K.A. (eds) Gendering Urban Space in the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230612471_6
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