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Author : Salwa Ismail
Release : 2006
Genre : Cairo (Egypt)
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Book Rating : 991/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Political Life in Cairo's New Quarters by : Salwa Ismail
Download or read book Political Life in Cairo's New Quarters written by Salwa Ismail. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S. Ismail
Release : 2000
Genre : Political science
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Book Synopsis Political Life in Cairo's New Urban Quarters by : S. Ismail
Download or read book Political Life in Cairo's New Urban Quarters written by S. Ismail. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Diane Singerman
Release : 2020-09-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 769/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Avenues of Participation by : Diane Singerman
Download or read book Avenues of Participation written by Diane Singerman. This book was released on 2020-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intentionally excluded from formal politics in authoritarian states by reigning elites, do the common people have concrete ways of achieving community objectives? Contrary to conventional wisdom, this book demonstrates that they do. Focusing on the political life of the sha'b (or popular classes) in Cairo, Diane Singerman shows how men and women develop creative and effective strategies to accomplish shared goals, despite the dominant forces ranged against them. Starting at the household level in one densely populated neighborhood of Cairo, Singerman examines communal patterns of allocation, distribution, and decision-making. Combining the institutional focus of political science with the sensitivities of anthropology, she uncovers a system of informal networks, supported by an informal economy, that constitutes another layer of collective institutions within Egypt and allows excluded groups to pursue their interests. Avenues of Participation traces this informal system from its grounding in the family to its influence on the larger polity. Discussing the role of these networks in meeting fundamental needs in the community--such as earning a living, reproducing the family, saving and investing money, and coping with the bureaucracy--Singerman demonstrates the surprising power these "excluded" people wield. While the government has reduced politics to the realm of distribution to protect itself from challenges, she argues that the popular classes in Cairo, as consumers of goods and services, have turned exploiting the government into a fine art.
Author : Diane Singerman
Release : 2009
Genre : Cairo (Egypt)
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Book Rating : 351/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Cairo Contested by : Diane Singerman
Download or read book Cairo Contested written by Diane Singerman. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume 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.
Author : Gehan Selim
Release : 2016-11-10
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 251/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Unfinished Places: The Politics of (Re)making Cairo’s Old Quarters by : Gehan Selim
Download or read book Unfinished Places: The Politics of (Re)making Cairo’s Old Quarters written by Gehan Selim. This book was released on 2016-11-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Emerging Politics of (Re) making Cairo's Old Quarters examines postcolonial planning practices that aimed to modernise Cairo’s urban spaces. The author examines the expanding field of postcolonial urbanism by linking the state’s political ideologies and systems of governance with methods of spatial representations that aimed to transform the urban realm in Cairo. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the study draws on planning, history and politics to develop a distinctive account of postcolonial planning in Cairo following Egypt’s 1952 revolution. The book widely connects the ideological role of a different type of politicised urbanism practised during the days of Nasser, Sadat and Mubarak and the overarching policies, institutions and attitudes involved in the visions for (re) building a new nation in Egypt. By examining the notion of remaking urban spaces, the study interprets the ambitions and powers of state policies for improving the spatial qualities of Cairo’s old districts since the early 20th century. These acts are situated in their spatial, political and historical contexts of Cairo’s heterogeneous old quarters and urban spaces particularly the remaking of one of the city’s older quarts named Bulaq Abul Ela established during the Ottoman rule in the thirteenth century. It therefore writes, in a chronological sequence, a narrative through time and space connecting various layers of historical and contemporary political phases for remaking Bulaq. The endeavor is to explain this process from a spatial perspective in terms of the implications and consequences not only on places, but also on the people’s everyday practices. By deeply investigating the problems and consequences; the strengths and weaknesses; and the state’s reliability to achieve the remaking objectives, the book reveals evidence that shifting forms of governance had anchored planning practices into a narrow path of creativity and responsive planning.
