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Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Globalized Middle East
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Paperback. Explores what happens when new forms of privatization meet collectivist pasts, public space is sold off to satisfy investor needs and tourist gazes, and the state plans for Egypt's future in desert cities while stigmatizing and neglecting Cairo's popular neighborhoods. Editor(s): Singerman, Diane; Amar, Paul. Num Pages: 564 pages, 80 b/w illustrations, 21 tables, & 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1HBE; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 36. Weight in Grams: 936.
A new paperback edition of the first collected volume from the Cairo School of Urban Studies
Bringing together a distinguished interdisciplinary group of scholars, this volume explores what happens when new forms of privatization meet collectivist pasts, public space is sold off to satisfy investor needs and tourist gazes, and the state plans for Egypt’s future in desert cities while stigmatizing and neglecting Cairo’s popular neighborhoods. These dynamics produce surprising contradictions and juxtapositions that are coming to define today’s Middle East.
The original publication of this volume launched the Cairo School of Urban Studies, committed to fusing political-economy ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
564
Place of Publication
Cairo, Egypt
ISBN
9789774162893
SKU
V9789774162893
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99-15
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Diane Singerman is associate professor in the Department of Government at the School of Public Affairs of American University. She is the author of Avenues of Participation: Family, Politics, and Networks in Urban Quarters of Cairo, and editor of Cairo Contested (AUC Press, 2009). Paul Amar is assistant professor of law and society at the University of California, Santa ... Read more
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