Cairo contested : governance, urban space, and global modernity /: governance, urban space, and global modernity. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Diane Singerman.
• Other Names: Singerman, Diane
• Contents: Contested space, authority, security, and meaning. Making or shaking the State: urban boundaries of State control and popular appropriation in Sayyida Zaynab Model Park / Khaled Adham -- Cairo as capital of Islamic institutions? Al-Azhar Islamic University, the State, and the city / Malika Zeghal -- Policing mulids and their meanings / Samuli Schielke -- The siege of Imbaba, Egypt's internal 'other, ' and the criminalization of politics / Diane Singerman -- From the Hara to the 'Imara': emerging urban metaphors in the literary production of contemporary Cairo / Samia Mehrez -- Cairo's governance: ambiguity, legalities, informality, and mobilization. Cairo's city government: the crisis of local administration and the refusal of urban citizenship / Sarah Ben Néfissa -- The dictatorship of the straight line and the myth of social disorder: revisiting informality in Cairo / Agnès Deboulet -- Extract from a diary: marginal notes on the soft dialectics of historic Cairo / Kareem Ibrahim -- Of demolitions and donors: the problematics of State intervention in informal Cairo / W.J. Dorman -- Banished by the quake: urban cairenes displaced from the historic center to the desert periphery / Bénédicte Florin -- Cousins, neighbors, and citizens in Imbaba: the genesis and self-neutralization of a rebel political territory / Patrick Haenni -- Economic liberalization and union struggles in Cairo / Agnieszka Paczynska -- Land disputes, the informal city, and environmental discourse in Cairo / Jennifer Bell -- Market, marketing, and globalized identities. Market spaces: merchants battle the economic narratives of development experts / Jörg Gertel -- Political consumerism and the boycott of American goods in Egypt / Taline Djerdjerian -- Amr Khaled and young Muslim elites: Islamism and the consolidation of mainstream Muslim Piety in Egypt / Hania Sobhy -- African refugees and diasporic struggles in Cairo / Mulki Al-Sharmani and Katarzyna Grabska.
• Edition: [CA & US version]
• Publisher Details: Cairo New York : American University in Cairo Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (xv, 488 pages), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 962.16; Social change -- Egypt -- Cairo; Urban policy -- Egypt -- Cairo; City and town life -- Egypt -- Cairo; City planning -- Egypt -- Cairo; Cairo (Egypt) -- Economic conditions; Cairo (Egypt) -- Social conditions; City and town life -- Egypt -- Cairo; City planning -- Egypt -- Cairo; Social change -- Egypt -- Cairo; Urban policy -- Egypt -- Cairo; HISTORY -- Middle East -- Egypt; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography; City and town life; City planning; Economic history; Social change; Social conditions; Urban policy; Cairo (Egypt) -- Economic conditions; Cairo (Egypt) -- Social conditions; Egypt -- Cairo; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781936190324; 9781617973895; 1617973890
• Related ISBNs: 193619032X; 9774162889; 9789774162886
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.