| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 474 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Middle East Urban Studies |
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Middle East Urban Studies
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| Contents |
Intro -- Halftitle Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Cairo Securitized: Can Another World Be Made? -- Section 1. Vernacular Mediascaping: Beyond the Binary of Digital/Virtual Space versus Street/Real Space -- 1 The Crime of Shamelessness: TikTok Women, the Principle of Bodily Integrity, and Independence without Regrets -- 2 Securitized Consolidation, or How the State Co-opted Private Media -- 3 The City and the Jungle: Africa and Blackness in the Egyptian Interwar Cinematic Imagination |
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4 Viral Visualities, Image Cycles, and Mosireen's Revolutionary Archives -- 5 Queer Digital Activism: Street Media and Subversion of Digital Securitization -- Section 2. Reversing Social Cleansing and Depathologizing Justice: Beyond the Binaries of Sociability versus Social Cleansing, Value versus Waste, Abled versus Debilitated, Medicine versus Magic -- 6 Toilets for the People? Hygiene in the City and Depathologizing Popular Sanitation -- 7 Cairo's Sexuality Infrastructures: Securitizing Abortion, HIV, and Gender-affirming Surgery |
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8 Road to the Future: Infrastructure and Landscape Sanitized of Trees and People, Viewed from "God's Eyes" -- 9 The Khaki Color of Football: Digitized Militarization and Social Sanitization of Egypt's Most Popular Game -- Section 3. Anti-enclave Densityphilia: Beyond the Binary of Working-class Slum versus Elite Gated City -- 10 Urban (Counter)Revolution against Gentrification: Shadow Security Networks, Baltagiya Subjectivities, and Community Densities -- 11 Urbanizing Dreams: The Struggles of Attaining "New" Social Contracts for the Middle and Upper Middle Classes at Cairo's Desert Edge |
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12 Military Capitalism: The Economic and Security Logics of Egypt's New Administrative Capital -- 13 Gulf Investment, Megacontractor Projects, and Urban Isomorphism: The Imposition of a New Way of Life -- Section 4. Convivial Sociabilities: Beyond the Binaries of Street Mobility versus Family Domesticity, Public versus Private -- 14 Cairo Up! Infrastructures of Security and Desire -- 15 The Curious Cases of the Disappearing Maids: Mobilization and Precarity among Foreign Domestic Workers in Cairo -- 16 Cruising Ethics in Cairo: Queer Street Socialities against Fear Regimes |
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17 South Sudanese Refugees and Community Schools in Cairo: A Home Away from Home -- 18 Entangled in the City: Interstitial and Queer Urbanism through the Eyes of a Second-generation Nubian -- Section 5. Participatory Futurity: Beyond the Binary of Informal versus Planned -- 19 Seeing Like a City-state: Behavioral Planning and Governance in Egypt's First Affordable Gated Community -- 20 Peripheralization and Infrastructural Violence: "Haussmannization" in Managua, Nicaragua and Cairo, Egypt -- 21 Statizing Informality and Unbundling Rights: Neoliberal Infrastructure in Cairo's 'Ashwa'iyat |
| Summary |
"Until the year 2000, Cairo had been a model megacity, relatively crime free, safe, and public facing. It featured a thriving public culture and vibrant street life. In recent decades, however, the Egyptian state has accelerated a wholesale dismantlement of public education and public sector jobs and reversed the modest land reforms of the Nasser era. As a result, the vast majority of Cairo's people have been forcibly deprived of their social rights, social goods, and educational capital. Eschewing the traditional focus on top-down regime and state security, the contributors to this volume, who represent a wide array of academics, activists, artists, and journalists, explore how repressive policies affect the everyday lives of citizens. They show the ways in which urban security crises are politically fashioned and do not emanate from the urban social fabric on their own: city crime, violence, and fear are created by specific means of extraction, production, and control. Another kind of city can live again. But how? By tackling a range of issues, including public health, transportation, labor safety, and housing and property distribution, Cairo Securitized unsettles simplistic binaries of thug and police, public versus private, and slum versus enclave, and proposes compelling new ways in which securitizing processes can be reversed, reengineered, and replaced with a participatory and equitable urban order."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sociology, Urban -- Egypt -- Cairo
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Equality -- Egypt -- Cairo
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Human security -- Egypt -- Cairo
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Equality
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Human security
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Social conditions
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Sociology, Urban
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| SUBJECT |
Cairo (Egypt) -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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| Subject |
Egypt -- Cairo
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Amar, Paul (Paul Edouard), 1968- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781649033154 |
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164903315X |
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