The familiar labyrinth: practicing urban disorientation in post-apartheid Cape Town

In this article, I discuss how urban disorientation can be used in ethnographic research as an investigative tool to explore the city. In particular, I examine how urban disorientation can be taken as an ethnographic tactic with the purpose of investigating the relationship between the memories of the city's inhabitants and its urban spaces. I argue that, through urban disorientation, we can generate a process of reterritorialisation of a city's...