With increased international immigration, South African cities have come to contend with the threat of a violent multinational urbanism. Xenophobia, in its violent and symbolic manifestations, signifies this challenge. From an empirical grounding in Johannesburg, this paper explores the possibility of living together in contexts of multinational urbanism. It argues...

This article deploys the concept of ritualistic urbanism to understand the production of everyday urban social regularity in multinationally diverse metropolises. The article mobilises ethnographic vignettes from Johannesburg in this regard. The study hypothesises that it is everyday ethno-mutualism, underpropped by layered everyday routines, rhythms and rituals, w...