ABSTRACT
Urban spaces around the world teem with tourists, migrants, refugees and nomads of a plethora of dispositions. Migrants, refugees, tourists and nomads continually journey from suburb to inner-city, disrupting smooth understandings of an urban whole. Involuntary tourist' may sugarcoat displacement and forced economic migration, but it also indicates ways in which mobility is prized in a globalised world. There is a danger of romanticising the nomad, as increasingly the tourist sees himself in just such an idealistic light. JJ epitomises the new breed of developers who are transforming Johannesburg from top to bottom. Racial segregation has transmuted into class division, as Johannesburg becomes marked once again with new kinds of geographic separation. In Johannesburg, South Africa, enactments of power are continually created through the movement of bodies through space. The movements of the migrant, refugee and nomad are inseparable from the tourist and the affluent urban developer.
