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出版Oxford University Press, 2009
主題Architecture / Urban & Land Use PlanningHistory / Middle East / EgyptPolitical Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban DevelopmentPolitical Science / World / Middle EasternSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & SocialSocial Science / Human GeographySocial Science / Sociology / GeneralSocial Science / Sociology / UrbanSocial Science / Social Classes & Economic DisparitySocial Science / Regional Studies
ISBN97741628979789774162893
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=fvHnCwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Annotation. In the cities of the Arab world, while the media focus overwhelmingly on questions of religiosity and war, the future of urban modernity and political globalism is taking shape. As the Egyptian state reaches out to capture the apparent promises of neoliberalism, Cairenes struggle over and redefine their place, identity, and material welfare. Bringing together a distinguished interdisciplinary group of scholars, this volume explores what happens when new forms of privatization meet collectivist pasts, public space is sold off to satisfy investor needs and tourist gazes, and the state plans for Egypts future in desert cities while stigmatizing and neglecting Cairos popular neighborhoods. These dynamics produce surprising contradictions and juxtapositions that are coming to define todays Middle East. Luxury malls owned by the military or foreign investors compete with flourishing but criminalized open-air markets; Nubian, Upper Egyptian, and labor-migrant identities confront a renaissance of Arab nationalism; and new chic coffee houses, crumbling movie palaces, and resurgent working-class cultures offer radically clashing versions of public and gender sociability. The original publication of this volume launched the Cairo School of Urban Studies, committed to fusing political-economy and ethnographic methods and sensitive to ambivalence and contingency, to reveal the new contours and patterns of modern power emerging in the urban frame. Contributors: Mona Abaza, Nezar AlSayyad, Paul Amar, Walter Armbrust, Vincent Battesti, Fanny Colonna, Eric Denis, Dalila ElKerdany, Yasser Elsheshtawy, Farha Ghannam, Galila El Kadi, Anouk de Koning, Petra Kuppinger, Anna Madoeuf, Catherine Miller, Nicolas Puig, Said Sadek, Omnia El Shakry, Diane Singerman, Elizabeth A. Smith, Leila Vignal, Caroline Williams.