Cairo collages: everyday life practices after the event

by Abaza, Mona

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Full title :Cairo collages : everyday life practices after the event / Mona Abaza.

Summary

"Cairo is a city of collective exhaustion. From the 2011 revolution to Sisi's seizure of power in 2013, like millions of others, Mona Abaza was swallowed by a draining and exhausting daily life of a city caught up in the aftermath of revolt - a daily life that transformed countless people into all-embracing apolitical subjects. Cairo Collages narrates four parallel tales about Cairo's urban transformations in the twenty-first century, examining everyday life and resilience after 2013. Weaving personal narrative with incisive theoretical discussions of the quotidian and the everyday, Abaza raises essential sociological questions regarding global orientations pertaining to emerging military urbanism. With reflections on the long hours of commuting to the gated communities in the desert east of Cairo and the daily material lives and social interactions of residents in decaying middle-class buildings, Abaza's collage of landscapes weaves together the transmutations underway in the various Cairene geographies."--taken from back cover.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Manchester University Press
Place of Publication:Manchester
Language:eng
Publication Date:2020

The Physical Object

Description:x, 203 pages : illustrations (black and white) : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1526145111, 9781526145116
oclc:on1248628152
LC Classification:DT148
Dewey Decimal:962.16056

Introduction -- Tale I : Al-'imaara (the building) as topos -- Tale II : Commute -- Tale III : My exhausted and exhausting building -- My flat : Nostalgia and al-zaman al gamiil (the 'beautiful old times') -- The elevator saga : The degeneration of everyday material conditions -- Tale IV : Order -- Conclusion : Making sense of the collage -- Appendix I : Interview with E. D. -- Appendix II : Excerpts from interview with Laila al-Raa'i -- References -- Index.

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