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This cross-disciplinary, ethnographic, contextualized, and empirical volume―with an updated introduction to take account of the dramatic events of early 2011―explores the meaning and significance of urban space, and maps the spatial inscription of power on the mega-city of Cairo. Suspicious of collective life and averse to power-sharing, Egyptian governance structures weaken but do not stop the public’s role in the remaking of their city. What happens to a city...
About the Author
Diane Singerman is associate professor in the Department of Government at the School of Public Affairs of American University. She is co-editor of Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Globalized Middle East (AUC Press, 2006).
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An excellent pioneering endeavor . . . . This is the fresh air of academic freedom! For any student of the Middle East this is, indeed, a very valuable addition. Choice
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This is how social science should be done. The Cairo School s cosmopolitanism from below is enormously important because it is everyone s cosmopolitanism: the global capitalism of shirt and...
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- PublisherThe American University in Cairo Press
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 9774165004
- ISBN 13 9789774165009
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages536
- EditorSingerman Diane
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