Diane (Hrsg.) Singerman

Cairo Contested

Governance, Urban Space, and Global Modernity

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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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-61797-389-5
EAN: 9781617973895
Produktnummer: 22582812
Verlag: I.B.Tauris
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 536 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 7'414 KB

Über den Autor

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).