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OverviewExplores the meaning and significance of urban space, and maps the spatial inscription of power on the mega-city of Cairo. This title develops the central insights of the Cairo School of Urban Studies. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Diane SingermanPublisher: The American University in Cairo Press Imprint: The American University in Cairo Press Dimensions: Width: 15.00cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 23.00cm Weight: 0.883kg ISBN: 9789774165009ISBN 10: 9774165004 Pages: 536 Publication Date: 15 October 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviewsAn excellent pioneering endeavor . . . . This is the fresh air of academic freedom! For any student of the Middle East this is, indeed, a very valuable addition. Choice Praise for the companion volume, Cairo Cosmopolitan: This is how social science should be done. The Cairo School s cosmopolitanism from below is enormously important because it is everyone s cosmopolitanism: the global capitalism of shirt and shibshib manufacture and of those who wear them. Their work shows the intellectually and politically generative power of ordinary Egyptians and the importance of intensely empirical qualitative analysis for understanding politics. The Cairo School doesn t use theory it generates theory, for theory grows out of the particular. Anne Norton, University of Pennsylvania An excellent pioneering endeavor . . . . This is the fresh air of academic freedom! For any student of the Middle East this is, indeed, a very valuable addition. ChoicePraise for the companion volume, Cairo Cosmopolitan: This is how social science should be done. The Cairo School s cosmopolitanism from below is enormously important because it is everyone s cosmopolitanism: the global capitalism of shirt and shibshib manufacture and of those who wear them. Their work shows the intellectually and politically generative power of ordinary Egyptians and the importance of intensely empirical qualitative analysis for understanding politics. The Cairo School doesn t use theory it generates theory, for theory grows out of the particular. Anne Norton, University of Pennsylvania An excellent pioneering endeavor . . . . This is the fresh air of academic freedom! For any student of the Middle East this is, indeed, a very valuable addition. ChoicePraise for the companion volume, Cairo Cosmopolitan: This is how social science should be done. The Cairo School s cosmopolitanism from below is enormously important because it is everyone s cosmopolitanism: the global capitalism of shirt and shibshib manufacture and of those who wear them. Their work shows the intellectually and politically generative power of ordinary Egyptians and the importance of intensely empirical qualitative analysis for understanding politics. The Cairo School doesn t use theory it generates theory, for theory grows out of the particular. Anne Norton, University of Pennsylvania An excellent pioneering endeavor . . . . This is the fresh air of academic freedom! For any student of the Middle East this is, indeed, a very valuable addition. ChoicePraise for the companion volume, Cairo Cosmopolitan: This is how social science should be done. The Cairo School s cosmopolitanism from below is enormously important because it is everyone s cosmopolitanism: the global capitalism of shirt and shibshib manufacture and of those who wear them. Their work shows the intellectually and politically generative power of ordinary Egyptians and the importance of intensely empirical qualitative analysis for understanding politics. The Cairo School doesn t use theory it generates theory, for theory grows out of the particular. Anne Norton, University of Pennsylvania <br>An excellent pioneering endeavor . . . . This is the fresh air of academic freedom! For any student of the Middle East this is, indeed, a very valuable addition. Choice<p><br>Praise for the companion volume, Cairo Cosmopolitan: <br><br> This is how social science should be done. The Cairo School s cosmopolitanism from below is enormously important because it is everyone s cosmopolitanism: the global capitalism of shirt and shibshib manufacture and of those who wear them. Their work shows the intellectually and politically generative power of ordinary Egyptians and the importance of intensely empirical qualitative analysis for understanding politics. The Cairo School doesn t use theory it generates theory, for theory grows out of the particular. Anne Norton, University of Pennsylvania <br><p><br> Author InformationDiane Singerman is associate professor in the Department of Government at the School of Public Affairs of American University. She is the author of Avenues of Participation: Family, Politics, and Networks in Urban Quarters of Cairo and co-editor of Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Globalized Middle East (AUC Press, 2006). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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