LEADER 03905nam 22007094a 450 001 9910454962503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9780520230460 010 $a1-282-76255-9 010 $a1-59734-512-1 010 $a0-520-93601-9 010 $a9780520230460 010 $a9786612762550 010 $a1-59734-859-7 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520936010 035 $a(CKB)111054828796370 035 $a(EBL)224181 035 $a(OCoLC)614690526 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000235762 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11924775 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000235762 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10164748 035 $a(PQKB)10680504 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC224181 035 $a(DE-B1597)518938 035 $a(OCoLC)52859399 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520936010 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL224181 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10048983 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL276255 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111054828796370 100 $a20011025d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRemaking the modern $espace, relocation, and the politics of identity in a global Cairo /$fFarha Ghannam 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (227 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-23046-9 311 $a0-520-23045-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 195-206) and index. 327 $aRelocation 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. 330 $aIn 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 population in the new location.Until now, few anthropologists have delivered detailed case studies on this recent phenomenon. Ghannam fills this gap in scholarship with an illuminating analysis of urban engineering of populations in Cairo. Drawing on theories of practice, the study traces the various tactics and strategies employed by members of the relocated group to appropriate and transform the state's understanding of "modernity" and hegemonic construction of space. Informed by recent theories of globalization, Ghannam also shows how the growing importance of religious identity is but one of many contradictory ways that global trajectories mold the identities of the relocated residents. Remaking the Modern is a revealing ethnography of a working class community's struggle to appropriate modern facilities and confront the alienation and the dislocation brought on by national policies and the quest to globalize Cairo. 606 $aUrbanization$zEgypt$zCairo 606 $aCity and town life$zEgypt$zCairo 607 $aCairo (Egypt)$xSocial conditions 607 $aCairo (Egypt)$xEconomic conditions 615 0$aUrbanization 615 0$aCity and town life 676 $a307.76/0962/16 700 $aGhannam$b Farha$f1963-$0275886 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454962503321 996 $aRemaking the modern$91372538 997 $aUNINA