Cairo Contested: Governance, Urban Space, and Global Modernity
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Titre
Cairo Contested: Governance, Urban Space, and Global Modernity
Sujet
Singerman Diane, Le Caire, Egypte, espace urbain, mégapole, inscription spatiale, pouvoirs, services publics, privatisation, néolibéralisme, mondialisation
Description
Présentation par l'éditeur :
This cross-disciplinary, ethnographic, contextualized, and empirical volume 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 (2006) further develops the central insights of the Cairo School of Urban Studies.
Auteurs : Khaled Adham, Jennifer Bell, Agnès Deboulet, Taline Djerdjerian, W. Judson Dorman, Bénédicte Florin, Joerg Gertel, Katarzyna Grabska, Patrick Haenni, Mozn Hassan, Samia Mehrez, Sarah Ben Néfissa, Agnieszka Paczynska, Samuli Schielke, Mulki Al-Sharmani, Diane Singerman, Hania Sobhy, and Malika Zeghal
Diane Singerman is associate professor in the Department of Government at the school of Public Affairs at American University. She is the author of "Avenues of Participation" (AUC Press 1997).
