Cairo Contested: Governance, Urban Space, and Global Modernity Format: Paperback

Diane Singerman

ISBN 10: 9774165004 / ISBN 13: 9789774165009

Published by The American University in Cairo Press, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cairo Contested: Governance, Urban Space, and Global Modernity Format: Paperback
• Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9774165004
• ISBN 13: 9789774165009
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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 where neo-liberalism has scaled back public services and encouraged the privatization of public goods, while the vast majority cannot afford the effects of such policies? Who wins and loses in the “march to the modern and the global” as the government transforms urban spaces and markets in the name of growth, security, tourism, and modernity? How do Cairenes struggle with an ambiguous and vulnerable legal and bureaucratic environment when legality is a privilege affordable only to the few or the connected? This companion volume to Cairo Cosmopolitan further develops the central insights of the Cairo School of Urban Studies.

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).