Connected in Cairo [electronic resource] : growing up cosmopolitan in the modern Middle East / Mark Allen Peterson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peterson, Mark Allen.

Series:

Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa.

Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consumption (Economics)--Egypt--Cairo.

Consumption (Economics).

Cosmopolitanism--Egypt--Cairo.

Cosmopolitanism.

Social mobility--Egypt--Cairo.

Social mobility.

Physical Description:

xvii, 263 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington [Ind.] : Indiana University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For members of Cairo's upper classes, cosmopolitanism is a form of social capital, deployed whenever they acquire or consume transnational commodities, or goods that are linked in the popular imagination to other, more "modern" places. In a series of thickly described and carefully contextualized case studies -- of Arabic children's magazines, Pokémon, private schools and popular films, coffee shops and fast-food restaurants -- Mark Allen Peterson describes the social practices that create class identities. He traces these processes from childhood into adulthood, examining how taste and style intersect with a changing educational system and economic liberalization. Peterson reveals how uneasy many cosmopolitan Cairenes are with their new global identities, and describes their efforts to root themselves in the local through religious, nationalist, or linguistic practices.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration

1 Toward an Anthropology of Connections

2 Making Kids Modern Agency and Identity in Arabic Children's Magazines

3 Pokémon Panics

4 Talk Like an Egyptian

5 Coffee Shops and Gender in Translocal Spaces

6 The Global and the Multilocal

Epilogue

Dramatis Personae

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-252) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-23588-9

9786613235886

0-253-00195-1

OCLC:

735597024