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Political life in Cairo's new quarters [electronic resource] : encountering the everyday state / Salwa Ismail.

By: Ismail, Salwa.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2006Description: xlvi, 230 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.Subject(s): Political participation -- Egypt -- Cairo | Islam and politics -- Egypt -- Cairo | City planning -- Political aspects -- Egypt -- Cairo | Cairo (Egypt) -- Politics and governmentGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 306.20962/16 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-207) and index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.