Cairo contested : governance, urban space, and global modernity /

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This volume explores the meaning and significance of urban space, and maps the spatial inscription of power on the mega-city of Cairo. Suspicious of collective life and averse to power-sharing, Egyptian governance structures weaken but do not stop the public's role in the remaking of their city...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Singerman, Diane
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, 2009.
Edición:[CA & US version].
Temas:
Social change > Egypt > Cairo.
Urban policy > Egypt > Cairo.
City and town life > Egypt > Cairo.
City planning > Egypt > Cairo.
Politique urbaine > Égypte > Le Caire.
Vie urbaine > Égypte > Le Caire.
HISTORY > Middle East > Egypt.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
City and town life.
City planning.
Economic history.
Social change.
Social conditions
Urban policy.
Cairo (Egypt) > Economic conditions.
Cairo (Egypt) > Social conditions.
Egypt > Cairo.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contested space, authority, security, and meaning. Making or shaking the State: urban boundaries of State control and popular appropriation in Sayyida Zaynab Model Park / Khaled Adham
  • Cairo as capital of Islamic institutions? Al-Azhar Islamic University, the State, and the city / Malika Zeghal
  • Policing mulids and their meanings / Samuli Schielke
  • The siege of Imbaba, Egypt's internal 'other, ' and the criminalization of politics / Diane Singerman
  • From the Hara to the 'Imara': emerging urban metaphors in the literary production of contemporary Cairo / Samia Mehrez
  • Cairo's governance: ambiguity, legalities, informality, and mobilization. Cairo's city government: the crisis of local administration and the refusal of urban citizenship / Sarah Ben Néfissa
  • The dictatorship of the straight line and the myth of social disorder: revisiting informality in Cairo / Agnès Deboulet
  • Extract from a diary: marginal notes on the soft dialectics of historic Cairo / Kareem Ibrahim
  • Of demolitions and donors: the problematics of State intervention in informal Cairo / W.J. Dorman
  • Banished by the quake: urban cairenes displaced from the historic center to the desert periphery / Bénédicte Florin
  • Cousins, neighbors, and citizens in Imbaba: the genesis and self-neutralization of a rebel political territory / Patrick Haenni
  • Economic liberalization and union struggles in Cairo / Agnieszka Paczynska
  • Land disputes, the informal city, and environmental discourse in Cairo / Jennifer Bell
  • Market, marketing, and globalized identities. Market spaces: merchants battle the economic narratives of development experts / Jörg Gertel
  • Political consumerism and the boycott of American goods in Egypt / Taline Djerdjerian
  • Amr Khaled and young Muslim elites: Islamism and the consolidation of mainstream Muslim Piety in Egypt / Hania Sobhy
  • African refugees and diasporic struggles in Cairo / Mulki Al-Sharmani and Katarzyna Grabska.

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