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Cairo cosmopolitan : politics, culture, and urban space in the new globalized Middle East /
Bringing together a distinguished interdisciplinary group of scholars, this volume explores what happens when new forms of privatization meet collectivist pasts, public space is sold off to satisfy investor needs and tourist gazes, and the state plans for Egypt's future in desert cities while s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
The American University in Cairo Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Bringing together a distinguished interdisciplinary group of scholars, this volume explores what happens when new forms of privatization meet collectivist pasts, public space is sold off to satisfy investor needs and tourist gazes, and the state plans for Egypt's future in desert cities while stigmatizing and neglecting Cairo's popular neighborhoods. These dynamics produce surprising contradictions and juxtapositions that are coming to define today's Middle East. The original publication of this volume launched the Cairo School of Urban Studies, committed to fusing political-economy and ethnogr. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource ([xix], 542 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 1936190109 9781936190102 9781617973901 1617973904 |