Opaque Infrastructure

IF 1.1 2区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Public Culture Pub Date : 2022-10-31 DOI:10.1215/08992363-9937283

Huda Tayob

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Abstract

Bellstat Junction and Sekko's Place are two markets in Cape Town established by migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. They are perhaps better understood as black markets existing within a lineage of global black urbanisms, past and future. These sites occupy a slippery legality, sited in the peripheral margins and shadows of the central city of Cape Town. They operate across grammars of transaction and care. An architectural reading of black markets enables a drawing out and stitching together of the constituents of these sites: of site and story, of domesticity and infrastructure, of publicness and transnational networks. Adopting the term black markets for these sites calls attention to the racialization of these spaces, and their emergence as sites of possibility, precarity, and care in the face of protracted crises.

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不透明基础设施

Bellstat Junction和Sekko's Place是开普敦的两个市场，由移民、难民和寻求庇护者建立。它们可能被更好地理解为存在于全球黑人城市主义谱系中的黑市，无论是过去还是未来。这些地点位于开普敦中心城市的边缘和阴影地带，合法性很差。它们跨事务和关怀的语法进行操作。对黑市的建筑解读能够将这些网站的组成部分绘制出来并缝合在一起：网站和故事、家庭生活和基础设施、公共性和跨国网络。对这些场所采用黑市一词，引起了人们对这些场所种族化的关注，以及在长期危机面前，它们作为可能性、不稳定性和关怀场所的出现。

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来源期刊

Public Culture Multiple-

CiteScore

2.10

自引率

6.70%

发文量

期刊介绍： Public Culture is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal of cultural studies, published three times a year—in January, May, and September. It is sponsored by the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU. A four-time CELJ award winner, Public Culture has been publishing field-defining ethnographies and analyses of the cultural politics of globalization for over thirty years. The journal provides a forum for the discussion of the places and occasions where cultural, social, and political differences emerge as public phenomena, manifested in everything from highly particular and localized events in popular or folk culture to global advertising, consumption, and information networks. Artists, activists, and scholars, both well-established and younger, from across the humanities and social sciences and around the world, present some of their most innovative and exciting work in the pages of Public Culture.