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Cairo Contested: Governance, Urban Space, and Global Modernity
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Cairo Contested: Governance, Urban Space, and Global Modernity Hardcover - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Diane Singerman (Editor)


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This cross-disciplinary, ethnographic, contextualized, and empirical 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. 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 (AUC Press, 2006) further develops the central insights of the Cairo School of Urban Studies.

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  • Title Cairo Contested: Governance, Urban Space, and Global Modernity
  • Author Diane Singerman (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 536
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher American University in Cairo Press
  • Date 2009-12
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Maps, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9789774162886 / 9774162889
  • Weight 2.4 lbs (1.09 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.6 in (24.13 x 16.51 x 4.06 cm)
  • Themes
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
  • Dewey Decimal Code 381

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Citations

  • Choice, 06/01/2010, Page 0
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 05/01/2010, Page 58

About the author

Diane Singerman is associate professor in the Department of Government at the School of Public Affairs of American University. She is the author of Avenues of Participation: Family, Politics, and Networks in Urban Quarters of Cairo and co-editor of Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Globalized Middle East (AUC Press, 2006).
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