Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Steven L. Robins -- I. CULTURE & THE LIMITS OF LIBERALISM -- Marginalisation & citizenship in post-Apartheid South Africa / Bettina Von Lieres -- Reflections on liberalism, policulturalism & ID-ology: citizenship & difference in South Africa / John Comaroff, Jean Comaroff -- The demands of recognition & the ambivalence of difference: race, culture & Afrikanerness in post-Apartheid South Africa / Suren Pillay -- Traditional leaders & democracy: cultural politics in the age of globalisation / Thomas A. Koelble, Ed Lipuma -- II. RETHINKING CITIZENSHIP & GOVERNANCE IN URBAN SOUTH AFRICA -- Nodal governance, denizenship & communal space: challenging the Westphalian ideal / Clifford Shearing, Jennifer Wood in collaboration with John Cartwright and Madeleine Jenneker -- Political inventions & interventions: a critical review of the proposed city development strategy partnership in Cape Town / Edgar Pieterse -- 'Functional' & 'dysfunctional' communities: the making of ethical citizens / Ivor Chipkin -- Mediating Manenberg in the post-Apartheid public sphere: media, democracy & citizenship in South Africa / Sean Jacobs, Ron Krabill -- III. CULTURAL PLURALITY & CULTURAL POLITICS AFTER APARTHEID -- Negotiating gender & personhood in the New South Africa: adolescent women & gangsters in Manenberg township on the Cape Flats / Elaine Salo -- Refracting an elusive South African urban citizenship: problems with tracking Spaza / Andrew Spiegel -- Coloureds don't Toyi-Toyi: gesture, constraint & identity in Cape Town / Shannon Jackson -- Palaces of desire: century city & the ambiguities of development / Rafael Marks.