“…There is a way in which discussions around such topics get sedimented down in familiar vocabularies and ideas, that sometimes prevent fresh thinking. This is certainly the case in Cape Town, a city which, since 1994, has cycled through various iterations in thinking about itself as a global city of a certain kind via a burgeoning discourse on development and urban renewal: as a multicultural city (Robins, 1998), a heritage city, a “global design capital” (Ernsten, 2017a, 2017b, 2017c), and as host to a “natural wonder of the world” (Shepherd, 2015). Few of these formulations begin to touch the disjunctive and unsettling experience of dwelling in a city that remains by many accounts the most racially divided city in South Africa.…”