Global Dreams : Class, Gender, and Public Space in Cosmopolitan Cairo

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koning, Anouk de.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : I.B.Tauris, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

At the start of the twenty-first century, Cairo's cityscape has acquired a spectacular global touch. Its luxurious five-star hotels, high-rise office buildings, immaculately clean malls, and swanky coffee shops serving café latte and caesar salad, along with the budding gated communities in the city's desert expanses, exemplify three decades of economic liberalization. In the surrounding social landscape, the gradual abrogation of the Nasser-era structures that provided many with low-cost goods and services is dearly felt.This new study examines Cairo's experience of economic liberalization in

Contents:

Cover; Halftitle Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on Transliteration; Introduction: Young Professionals and the City; 1. Dreams of a Global Cairo: History, Present and Future; 2. The Education of Class; 3. The Logics of Reform: Stories of Cairo's Labor Market; 4. Class and Cosmopolitan Belonging in Cairo's Coffee Shops; 5. Of Taxi Drivers, Prostitutes, and Professional Women: Gender, Public Space, and Social Segregation; Conclusion: Global Dreams and Postcolonial Predicaments; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781617972515

1617972517

OCLC:

880826238