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Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Globalized Middle East
Diane Singerman, Paul Amar
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| 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 Egypts future in desert cities while stigmatizing and neglecting Cairos popular neighborhoods. These dynamics produce surprising contradictions and juxtapositions that are coming to define todays Middle East. The original publication of this volume launched the Cairo School of Urban Studies, committed to fusing political-economy and ethnographic methods and sensitive to ambivalence and contingency, to reveal the new contours and patterns of modern power emerging in the urban frame. Contributors: Mona Abaza, Nezar AlSayyad, Paul Amar, Walter Armbrust, Vincent Battesti, Fanny Colonna, Eric Denis, Dalila ElKerdany, Yasser Elsheshtawy, Farha Ghannam, Galila El Kadi, Anouk de Koning, Petra Kuppinger, Anna Madoeuf, Catherine Miller, Nicolas Puig, Said Sadek, Omnia El Shakry, Diane Singerman, Elizabeth A. Smith, Lela Vignal, Caroline Williams. |
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Language: English
ISBN-10: 9774162897
ISBN-13: 9789774162893
Genre: Egypt
Condition: New
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