Mona Abaza

Cairo collages (eBook, ePUB)

Everyday life practices after the event

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Cairo is a city of collective exhaustion. From the 2011 revolution to Sisi's seizure of power in 2013, like millions of others, Mona Abaza was swallowed by a draining and exhausting daily life of a city caught up in the aftermath of revolt - a daily life that transformed countless people into all-embracing apolitical subjects. Cairo collages narrates four parallel tales about Cairo's urban transformations in the twenty-first century, examining everyday life and resilience after 2013. Weaving personal narrative with incisive theoretical discussions of the quotidian and the everyday, Abaza raises essential sociological questions regarding global orientations pertaining to emerging military urbanism. With reflections on the long hours of commuting to the gated communities in the desert east of Cairo and the daily material lives and social interactions of residents in decaying middle-class buildings, Abaza's collage of landscapes weaves together the transmutations underway in the various Cairene geographies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: LSU Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526145130
• Artikelnr.: 60362624

Autorenporträt

Mona Abaza (1959-2021) was Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Egyptology and Anthropology at The American University in Cairo. Over her vibrant career, her writing ranged from women in rural Egypt, the relation between Islam and the West, urban consumer culture, to Egyptian painting and the Arab Spring

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Tale I: Al-'imaara (the building) as topos 2 Tale II:
Commute 3 Tale III: My exhausted and exhausting building 4 My flat:
Nostalgia and al-zaman al-gamiil (the 'beautiful old times') 5 The elevator
saga: The degeneration of everyday material conditions Tale IV: Order
Conclusion Appendix I: Interview with E.D. Appendix II: Excerpts from
interview with Laila al-Raa'i References Index