This paper explores how dwellers of the fortified Cape Town market called The Neighbourgoods Market understand, navigate, and experience personal safety. The findings support Hentschel's (2015) claim that concepts such as "fortified enclaves" cannot fully explain how navigations of personal safety unfold in urban South Africa. Market dwellers' sense of safety did not solely result from fortification but was constantly assessed on the affective, corporeal, and emotional plane. The particulars of this undertaking illuminate that market access and belonging is granted those that can behave in a way that market dwellers understand as 'enjoyment'. Therefore, ideas about the 'right' way to enjoy the market form a kind of social and behavioral fortification, in addition to the exterior and architectural one. The findings indicate the importance of further study of how seemingly positive characteristics of space - such as enjoyment - operate social hierarchizing and subsequent spatial exclusion in contemporary cities.
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