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UNINA9910454962503321 |
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Autore |
Ghannam Farha <1963-> |
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Remaking the modern : space, relocation, and the politics of identity in a global Cairo / / Farha Ghannam |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 |
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9780520230460 |
1-282-76255-9 |
1-59734-512-1 |
0-520-93601-9 |
9786612762550 |
1-59734-859-7 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (227 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Urbanization - Egypt - Cairo |
City and town life - Egypt - Cairo |
Cairo (Egypt) Social conditions |
Cairo (Egypt) Economic conditions |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-206) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Relocation and the creation of a global city -- Relocation and the daily use of "modern" spaces -- Old places, new identities -- Gender and the struggle over public spaces -- Religion in a global era -- Roads to prosperity. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In an effort to restyle Cairo into a global capital that would meet the demands of tourists and investors and to achieve President Anwar Sadat's goal to modernize the housing conditions of the urban poor, the Egyptian government relocated residents from what was deemed valuable real estate in downtown Cairo to public housing on the outskirts of the city. Based on more than two years of ethnographic fieldwork among five thousand working-class families in the neighborhood of al-Zawyia al-Hamra, this study explores how these displaced residents have dealt with the stigma of public housing, the loss of their established community networks, and the diversity of the |
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