Screen LibraryGendering Urban Space in the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa
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 m...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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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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Ebook. Originally published in: 2008. |
| Carrier Form: | 248 p. |
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9781403975232 9780230612471 : 0230612474 : |
| CLC: | C91 |
| Contents: | Introduction - Kamran Asdar Ali & Martina Rieker * Colonial Urban and Marginalization: Prostitution in the Quartier Reserve of Casablanca - Driss Maghraoui & Al-Akhwayn * Gendered Geographies in the Making of Modern Cairo - Martina Rieker * Morphology of Social Flows: Segregation and the Public Sphere in Aden - Susanne Dahlgren * Pulp Fictions: Reading Pakistani Domesticity - Kamran Asdar Ali * Practices of Convertibility in Inner-City Johannesburg and Douala - AbdouMaliq Simone * Thin Lines on the Pavement: The Racialization and Spatialization of Violence in Postcolonial (Sub)Urban France - Paul Silverstein* Practices of Convertibility in Inner City Johannesburg and Douala - AbdouMaliq Simone * Race, Security, and Spatial Anxieties in the Post-Apartheid City - Thomas Bloom Hansen * Cosmopolistan: Culture, Cosmopolitanism and Gender in Karachi, Pakistan - Oskaar Verkaaik. |