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Cairo Contested: Governance, Urban Space, and Global Modernity

Cairo Contested: Governance, Urban Space, and Global Modernity

Singerman, Diane

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ISBN10: 9774165004
ISBN13: 9789774165009
Publisher: Amer Univ In Cairo Pr
Published: Nov 15 2011
Pages: 536
Weight: 1.95
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This cross-disciplinary, ethnographic, contextualized, and empirical volume--with an updated introduction to take account of the dramatic events of early 2011--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. What happens to a city where neo-liberalism has scaled back public services and encouraged the privatization of public goods, while the vast majority cannot afford the effects of such policies? Who wins and loses in the march to the modern and the global as the government transforms urban spaces and markets in the name of growth, security, tourism, and modernity? How do Cairenes struggle with an ambiguous and vulnerable legal and bureaucratic environment when legality is a privilege affordable only to the few or the connected? This companion volume to Cairo Cosmopolitan further develops the central insights of the Cairo School of Urban Studies.

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