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Cairo contested : governance, urban space, and global modernity / edited by Diane Singerman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Singerman, Diane
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social change--Egypt--Cairo.
- Social change.
- Urban policy--Egypt--Cairo.
- Urban policy.
- Cairo (Egypt)--Economic conditions.
- Cairo (Egypt).
- Cairo (Egypt)--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (508 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Notes:
- Companion volume to Cairo cosmopolitan (2006).
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781936190324
- 193619032X
- 9781617970351
- 1617970352
- 9781617973895
- 1617973890
- OCLC:
- 870410945
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