Overview

The essays in this book critically examine the ways in which gendered subjects negotiate their life-worlds in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African urban landscapes. They raise issues surrounding the city as a representative site of personal autonomy and political possibilities for women and/or men.

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Author:   M. Rieker ,  K. Ali
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2008
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781349535866

ISBN 10:   1349535869
Pages:   239
Publication Date:   18 December 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction; K.Ali & M.Rieker Colonial Urban and Marginalization: Prostitution in the Quartier Reservé of Casablanca; D.Maghraoui Remapping Beirut; M.Yahya Gendered Geographies in the Making of Modern Cairo; M.Rieker Morphology of Social Flows: Segregation and the Public Sphere in Aden; S. Dahlgren Could the Men Move: Women Workers and the Changing Public Sphere in Karachi; K.Ali Elsewhere: Vernacular Cosmopolitanism and Nation-building in the Steel towns of India; S.Roy Practices of Convertibility in Inner City Johannesburg and Douala; A.Simone Race, Security and Spatial Anxieties in the Post-Apartheid City; T.Bloom Hansen Hot Issues, Cool Attitudes; or the Unmaking of a Muhajir Working Class; O.Verkaaik

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Wide-reaching in its range of localities in the Global South, Rieker and Ali s framing argument for this collection of essays interrogates the efficacy of immutable epistemologies of urban space in modernist discourse ...this powerful volume reveals through the lens of everyday stories how social space becomes a mediation of radical politics - at the conjuncture, the crossroads of the micrological stories of the everyday and the macrological dimensions of power. - Journal of Middle East Women s Studies The engaging essays in this book fill a major gap in our understanding of the dynamics of city space in the Global South - its gender dimension. An instructive volume. - Asef Bayat, Director of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM), and ISIM Professor at Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Wide-reaching in its range of localities in the Global South, Rieker and Ali s framing argument for this collection of essays interrogates the efficacy of immutable epistemologies of urban space in modernist discourse . . .this powerful volume reveals through the lens of everyday stories how social space becomes a mediation of radical politics - at the conjuncture, the crossroads of the micrological stories of the everyday and the macrological dimensions of power. - Journal of Middle East Women s Studies The engaging essays in this book fill a major gap in our understanding of the dynamics of city space in the Global South - its gender dimension. An instructive volume. - Asef Bayat, Director of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM), and ISIM Professor at Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Author Information

MARTINA RIEKER is Associate Director, Institute for Gender and Women's Studies at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. KAMRAN ALI is Assistant Professor at University of Texas, Austin, USA.

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