Cairo Contested

Cairo ContestedThis cross disciplinary, ethnographic, contextualized, and empirical 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 publics role in the remaking of their city. What happens to a city where neo liberalism has scaled back public services and encouraged the

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explores how mapmakers sought to document a new geography of the Near East that reconciled classical ideas and theories with the information collected and brought back by travellers and voyagers

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This is a two volume set

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and integrates both of them seamlessly within its narrative

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