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

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Other Authors: Singerman, Diane

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Language: English

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Call Number: DT146 .C35 2009

Table of Contents:
  • 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.