Cairo contested : governance, urban space, and global modernity /

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Call Number: DT146 .C35 2009

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245 0 0 |a Cairo contested :   |b governance, urban space, and global modernity /   |c edited by Diane Singerman. 
264 1 |a Cairo ;   |a New York :   |b American University in Cairo Press,   |c 2009. 
300 |a xv, 488 pages :   |b illustration, maps ;   |c 24 cm. 
500 |a "Companion volume to Cairo cosmopolitan (2006)" -- Book jacket. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references. 
505 0 |a Introduction. The contested city /Diane Singerman -- 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 meaning /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 -- Markets, 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. 
650 0 |a City and town life  |z Egypt  |z Cairo. 
650 0 |a City planning  |z Egypt  |z Cairo. 
650 0 |a Social change  |z Egypt  |z Cairo. 
650 0 |a Urban policy  |z Egypt  |z Cairo. 
651 0 |a Cairo (Egypt)  |x Economic conditions. 
651 0 |a Cairo (Egypt)  |x Social conditions. 
700 1 |a Singerman, Diane, 
740 0 |a Cairo cosmopolitan. 
901 |a reviewed 
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