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1 online resource (xlvi, 230 pages) : illustrations |
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Introduction : space, politics, and the everyday state in Cairo -- reconfiguring Cairo : new popular quarters between the local and the global -- Internal governance : forms and practices of government in everyday life -- Neoliberalism and the relocation of welfare -- Youth, gender, and the state in Cairo : marginalized masculinities and contested spaces -- The politics of security : an economy of violence and control -- Postscript : collective action and the everyday state -- Appendix A : the "field" and "home" : the politics of location -- Appendix B : thematic outline of interview frames |
| Summary |
Since the 1970s, Cairo has experienced tremendous growth and change. Nearly three million people now live in new urban communities characterized by unregulated housing, informal economic activity, and the presence of Islamist groups. Salwa Ismail examines the effects of these changes in Political Life in Cairo's New Quarters. Working in Cairo, Ismail interviewed new quarter residents, observed daily life in markets and alleyways, met with local leaders, and talked with young men about their encounters with the government. Rich in ethnographic detail, this work reveals the city's new urban quarters as sites not only of opposition and relative autonomy, but also under governmental surveillance and discipline. In doing so, it situates the everyday within the context of wider developments in Cairo: the decline of welfarism, the shift to neoliberal government, and the rise of the security state |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-207) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| SUBJECT |
al- Markaz al-ʿArabī li-d-Dirāsāt Kairo gnd |
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Political participation -- Egypt -- Cairo
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Islam and politics -- Egypt -- Cairo
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City planning -- Political aspects -- Egypt -- Cairo
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development.
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City planning -- Political aspects
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Islam and politics
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Political participation
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Politics and government
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Islam
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Politik
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Politische Beteiligung
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Stadtplanung
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Cairo (Egypt) -- Politics and government
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| Subject |
Egypt -- Cairo
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Kairo
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781435612082 |
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1435612086 |
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9780816698967 |
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0816698961 |
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