Name: Cairo Contested: Governance, Urban Space, and Global Modernity (en Inglés)
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Author: Singerman, Diane

portada Cairo Contested: Governance, Urban Space, and Global Modernity (en Inglés)

Cairo Contested: Governance, Urban Space, and Global Modernity (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

American University in Cairo Press

Autor

Singerman, Diane

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

536

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

24.1x16.5x4.1 cm

Peso

1.09 kg.

ISBN

9774162889

ISBN13

9789774162886

Categorías

Estudios regionales / internacionales
Política y gobierno
Microeconomía

Cairo Contested: Governance, Urban Space, and Global Modernity (en Inglés)

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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 spaces and markets in the name of growth, security, tourism, and modernity? How do Cairenes struggle with an ambiguous and vulnerable legal and bureaucratic environment when legality is a privilege affordable only to the few or the connected? This companion volume to Cairo Cosmopolitan (AUC Press, 2006) further develops the central insights of the Cairo School of Urban Studies.