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Political life in Cairo's new quarters : encountering the everyday state /

Since the 1970s, Cairo has experienced tremendous growth and change. Nearly three million people now live in new urban communities characterized by unregulated housing, informal economic activity, and the presence of Islamist groups. Salwa Ismail examines the effects of these changes in Political Li...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ismail, Salwa
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : space, politics, and the everyday state in Cairo
  • reconfiguring Cairo : new popular quarters between the local and the global
  • Internal governance : forms and practices of government in everyday life
  • Neoliberalism and the relocation of welfare
  • Youth, gender, and the state in Cairo : marginalized masculinities and contested spaces
  • The politics of security : an economy of violence and control
  • Postscript : collective action and the everyday state
  • Appendix A : the "field" and "home" : the politics of location
  • Appendix B : thematic outline of interview frames.