Cairo contested : governance, urban space, and global modernity / edited by Diane Singerman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Singerman, Diane.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning.

City and town life.

Social change.

Urban policy.

Cairo (Egypt)--Social conditions.

Cairo (Egypt).

Cairo (Egypt)--Economic conditions.

Urban policy--Egypt--Cairo.

Social change--Egypt--Cairo.

City and town life--Egypt--Cairo.

City planning--Egypt--Cairo.

Egypt--Cairo.

Physical Description:

xv, 488 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Cairo cosmopolitan.

Place of Publication:

Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, 2009.

Summary:

This volume explores the meaning and significance of urban space, and maps the spatial inscription of power on the mega-city of Cairo.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

"Companion volume to Cairo cosmopolitan (2006)"--Book jacket.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9774162889

9789774162886

OCLC:

316039256

Publisher Number:

99945656339