Cairo cosmopolitan : politics, culture, and urban space in the new globalized Middle East /

Cairo cosmopolitan : politics, culture, and urban space in the new globalized Middle East /

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Imprint:	Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, [2006]
Description:	1 online resource (xvii, 542 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Subject:	Urban policy -- Egypt -- Cairo. Social change -- Egypt -- Cairo. Social change. Social conditions Urban policy. Cairo (Egypt) -- Social conditions. Egypt -- Cairo.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12615628

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Other authors / contributors:	Singerman, Diane, editor. Amar, Paul (Paul Edouard), 1968- editor.
ISBN:	9781936190102 1936190109 9781617973901 1617973904 9774249283 9789774249280 9789774162893 9774162897
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. Print version record.
Summary:	Giving the reader an idea of the huge size of Cairo and its leading position as a metropolis in the Middle East as a whole, this book is written mostly by Egyptians and particularly residents of Cairo.
Other form:	Print version: Cairo cosmopolitan. Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, ©2006 9774249283

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Summary:	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 and ethnographic methods and sensitive to ambivalence and contingency, to reveal the new contours and patterns of modern power emerging in the urban frame. Contributors: Mona Abaza, Nezar AlSayyad, Paul Amar, Walter Armbrust, Vincent Battesti, Fanny Colonna, Eric Denis, Dalila ElKerdany, Yasser Elsheshtawy, Farha Ghannam, Galila El Kadi, Anouk de Koning, Petra Kuppinger, Anna Madoeuf, Catherine Miller, Nicolas Puig, Said Sadek, Omnia El Shakry, Diane Singerman, Elizabeth A. Smith, Leïla Vignal, Caroline Williams.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xvii, 542 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9781936190102 1936190109 9781617973901 1617973904 9774249283 9789774249280 9789774162893 9774162897