Title & Author:

Cairo contested : governance, urban space, and global modernity / edited by Diane Singerman.

Publication:

Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, 2009.

Description:

xv, 488 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
"Companion volume to Cairo cosmopolitan (2006)"--Jacket
Includes bibliographical references.
Contested space, authority, security, and meaning. Making or shaking the State : urban boundaries of State control and popular appropriation in Sayyida Zaynab Model Park / Khaled Adham -- Cairo as capital of Islamic institutions? Al-Azhar Islamic University, the State, and the city / Malika Zeghal -- Policing mulids and their meanings / Samuli Schielke -- The siege of Imbaba, Egypt's internal 'other, ' and the criminalization of politics / Diane Singerman -- From the Hara to the 'Imara' : emerging urban metaphors in the literary production of contemporary Cairo / Samia Mehrez -- Cairo's governance : ambiguity, legalities, informality, and mobilization. Cairo's city government : the crisis of local administration and the refusal of urban citizenship / Sarah Ben Néfissa -- The dictatorship of the straight line and the myth of social disorder : revisiting informality in Cairo / Agnès Deboulet -- Extract from a diary : marginal notes on the soft dialectics of historic Cairo / Kareem Ibrahim -- Of demolitions and donors : the problematics of State intervention in informal Cairo / W.J. Dorman -- Banished by the quake : urban cairenes displaced from the historic center to the desert periphery / Bénédicte Florin -- Cousins, neighbors, and citizens in Imbaba : the genesis and self-neutralization of a rebel political territory / Patrick Haenni -- Economic liberalization and union struggles in Cairo / Agnieszka Paczynska -- Land disputes, the informal city, and environmental discourse in Cairo / Jennifer Bell -- Market, marketing, and globalized identities. Market spaces : merchants battle the economic narratives of development experts / Jörg Gertel -- Political consumerism and the boycott of American goods in Egypt / Taline Djerdjerian -- Amr Khaled and young Muslim elites : Islamism and the consolidation of mainstream Muslim Piety in Egypt / Hania Sobhy -- African refugees and diasporic struggles in Cairo / Mulki Al-Sharmani and Katarzyna Grabska.

Summary:

This volume explores the meaning and significance of urban space, and maps the spatial inscription of power on the mega-city of Cairo.

ISBN:

9789774162886
9774162889

Subject:

Urban policy Egypt Cairo.
Social change Egypt Cairo.
City and town life Egypt Cairo.
City planning Egypt Cairo.
Politique urbaine Égypte Le Caire.
Vie urbaine Égypte Le Caire.
City and town life
City planning
Economic history
Social change
Social conditions
Urban policy
Stadtgeografie
Sozialer Wandel
Wirtschaft
Kommunalpolitik
Verwaltung Kairo Geschichte 2001 ff.
Globalisierung Kairo Geschichte 2001 ff.
Soziale Situation.
Wirtschaftliche Lage.
Governance.
Cairo (Egypt) Social conditions.
Cairo (Egypt) Economic conditions.
Egypt Cairo
Kairo
Kairo Stadtentwicklung Geschichte 2001 ff.

Added entries:

Singerman, Diane.
Cairo cosmopolitan.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 265910
Call No.: BIB 197419
Status: Available