Cairo contested [[electronic resource] ] : governance, urban space, and global modernity / / edited by Diane Singerman

• Pubblicazione: Cairo ; ; New York, : American University in Cairo Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (508 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.096216
• Soggetto topico: Social change - Egypt - Cairo; Urban policy - Egypt - Cairo
• Soggetto geografico: Cairo (Egypt) Economic conditions; Cairo (Egypt) Social conditions
• Altri autori: SingermanDiane
• Note generali: Companion volume to Cairo cosmopolitan (2006).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Sommario/riassunto: This cross-disciplinary, ethnographic, contextualized, and empirical volume-with an updated introduction to take account of the dramatic events of early 2011-explores the meaning and significance of urban space, and maps the spatial inscription of power on the mega-city of Cairo. Suspicious of collective life and averse to power-sharing, Egyptian governance structures weaken but do not stop the public's role in the remaking of their city. What happens to a city where neo-liberalism has scaled back public services and encouraged the privatization of public goods, while the vast majority cannot
• Titolo autorizzato: Cairo contested
• ISBN: 1-936190-32-X; 1-61797-035-2; 1-61797-389-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787977003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II