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Af Diane Singerman & Paul Amar (eds.)

fra 2006

Kategori: Øvrige

pris: 175 kr

Sideantal: 542
Indbinding: Hardback with d/j
Summary: 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