Cairo Contested: Governance, Urban Space, and Global Modernity
Cairo Contested: Governance, Urban Space, and Global Modernity
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Abstract
This cross-disciplinary, ethnographic, contextualized, and empirical book 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 losses 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 to Cairo Cosmopolitan (AUC Press, 2006) further develops the central insights of the Cairo School of Urban Studies.
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Contested Space, Authority, Security, and Meaning
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Making or Shaking the State Urban Boundaries of State Control and Popular Appropriation in Sayyida Zaynab Model Park
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Cairo as Capital of Islamic Institutions? Al-azhar Islamic University, the State, and the City1
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Policing Mulids and Their Meaning1
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the Siege of Imbaba, Egypt's Internal ‘Other,’ and the Criminalization of Politics
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From the Hara to the ‘Imara: Emerging Urban Metaphors in the Literary Production on Contemporary Cairo1
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Making or Shaking the State Urban Boundaries of State Control and Popular Appropriation in Sayyida Zaynab Model Park
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Cairo's Governance: Ambiguity, Legalities, Informality, and Mobilization
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Cairo's City Government the Crisis of Local Administration and the Refusal of Urban Citizenship
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The Dictatorship of the Straight Line and the Myth of Social Disorder Revisiting Informality in Cairo
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Extract from Diary Marginal Notes on the Soft Dialectics of Historic Cairo
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Of Demolitions and Donors the Problematics of State Intervention in Informal Cairo1
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Banished By the Quake Urban Cairenes Displaced From the Historic Center to the Desert Periphery
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Cousins, Neighbors, and Citizens in Imbaba the Genesis and Self-neutralization of a Rebel Political Territory
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Economic Liberalization and Union Struggles in Cairo
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Land Disputes, the Informal City, and Environmental Discourse in Cairo
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Cairo's City Government the Crisis of Local Administration and the Refusal of Urban Citizenship
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Markets, Marketing, and Globalized Identities
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Market Spaces: Merchants Battle the Economic Narratives of Development Experts
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Political Consumerism and the Boycott of American Goods in Egypt1
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Amr Khaled and Young Muslim Elites: Islamism and the Consolidation of Mainstream Muslim Piety in Egypt1
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African Refugees and Diasporic Struggles in Cairo
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Market Spaces: Merchants Battle the Economic Narratives of Development Experts
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