Based on nineteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in al-Zawiya al-Hamra, a neighborhood in northern Cairo, this dissertation argues that the Egyptian "modern" capital is made not only through the discourses and grand plans of the Egyptian state but also through the practices of…
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Other Cities, Other Worlds: Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing Age
by Néstor García Canclini, AbdouMaliq, Simone, Ackbar, Abbas, Andreas, Huyssen, Beatriz, Sarlo, Farha, Ghannam, GYAN PRAKASH, Hilton, Judin, Okwui Enwezor, Orhan, Pamuk, Rahul, Mehrotra, Teresa P. R., Caldeira, Yingjin Zhang
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Other Cities, Other Worlds brings together leading scholars of cultural theory, urban studies, art, anthropology, literature, film, architecture, and history to look at non-Western global cities. The contributors focus on urban imaginaries, the ways that city dwellers perceive o…