Political life in Cairo's new quarters encountering the everyday state / Salwa Ismail.

Author/creator Ismail, Salwa
Format Electronic
Publication InfoMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,
Descriptionxlvi, 230 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
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Contents Introduction : space, politics, and the everyday state in Cairo -- reconfiguring Cairo : new popular quarters between the local and the global -- Internal governance : forms and practices of government in everyday life -- Neoliberalism and the relocation of welfare -- Youth, gender, and the state in Cairo : marginalized masculinities and contested spaces -- The politics of security : an economy of violence and control -- Postscript : collective action and the everyday state -- Appendix A : the "field" and "home" : the politics of location -- Appendix B : thematic outline of interview frames.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 197-207) and index.
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LCCN 2006015464
ISBN0816649111 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780816649112 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN081664912X (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780816649129 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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