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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811429503321

Autore

ABAZA MONA

Titolo

Cairo collages : everyday life practices after the event / / Mona Abaza

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Manchester], : MANCHESTER UNIV PRESS, 2020

ISBN

1-5261-4513-8

1-5261-5211-8

1-5261-4512-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 volume :) : illustrations (black and white) ;

Disciplina

962.16056

Soggetti

Social conditions

History

Egypt Cairo

Egypt

Egypt History Protests, 2011-2013

Cairo (Egypt) Social conditions 21st century

Cairo (Egypt) History 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

1 Introduction 2 Tale I: Commute 3 Tale II: My Exhausted and Exhausting Building 4 Public Schools, Microphones, and Belly Dancing 5 The surreal Manwars and the Bawaab’s space 6 Tale III: The army’s involvement in public life and real estate Conclusion -- .

Sommario/riassunto

Cairo is a city of collective exhaustion. From the 2011 revolution to Sisi's seizure of power in 2013, like millions of others, Mona Abaza was swallowed by a draining and exhausting daily life of a city caught up in the aftermath of revolt - a daily life that transformed countless people into all-embracing apolitical subjects.Cairo collages narrates four parallel tales about Cairo's urban transformations in the twenty-first century, examining everyday life and resilience after 2013. Weaving personal narrative with incisive theoretical discussions of the "idian and the everyday, Abaza raises essential sociological questions regarding global orientations pertaining to emerging military urbanism. With reflections on the long hours of commuting to the gated communities



in the desert east of Cairo and the daily material lives and social interactions of residents in decaying middle-class buildings, Abaza's collage of landscapes weaves together the transmutations underway in the various Cairene geographies.