Cairo cosmopolitan [[electronic resource] ] : politics, culture, and urban space in the new globalized Middle East / / edited by Diane Singerman and Paul Amar

• Pubblicazione: Cairo ; ; New York, : American University in Cairo Press, 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (563 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.096216
• Soggetto topico: Urban policy - Egypt - Cairo; Social change - Egypt - Cairo
• Soggetto geografico: Cairo (Egypt) Social conditions
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: SingermanDiane AmarPaul
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover -- Contents -- Introduction Contesting Myths, Critiquing Cosmopolitanism, and Creating the New Cairo School of Urban Studies -- Cairo as Neoliberal Capital? -- Cairo as Capital of Socialist Revolution? -- Cairo as Regional/Global Economic Capital? -- Cairo as Global/Regional Cultural Capital? -- Egyptianizing the American Dream -- Café Latte and Caesar Salad -- From Dubai to Cairo -- Keeping Him Connected -- Reconstructing Islamic Cairo -- Urban Transformations -- Pyramids and Alleys -- Belle-époque Cairo -- Upper Egyptian Regionally Based Communities in Cairo -- Place, Class, and Race in the Barabra Café -- When the Lights Go Down in Cairo -- Mulids of Cairo -- The Giza Zoo -- Egypt's Pop-Music Clashes and the 'World-Crossing' Destinies of Muhammad 'Ali Street Musicians -- Afterword Whose Cairo?.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 Egypt's future in desert cities while stigmatizing and neglecting Cairo's popular neighborhoods. These dynamics produce surprising contradictions and juxtapositions that are coming to define today's Middle East.The original publication of this volume launched the Cairo School of Urban Studies, committed to fusing political-economy and ethnogr
• Titolo autorizzato: Cairo cosmopolitan
• ISBN: 1-61797-026-3; 1-61797-390-4; 1-936190-10-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455304103321
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