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Gendering Urban Space in the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa

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  • © 2008

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  1. Martina Rieker
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  2. Kamran Asdar Ali
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • Kamran Asdar Ali, Martina Rieker
    Pages 1-16

  3. Gendering Urban Colonial Casablanca

    • Driss Maghraoui
    Pages 17-43

  4. Morphologies of Social Flows

    • Susanne Dahlgren
    Pages 45-70

  5. Pulp Fictions

    • Kamran Asdar Ali
    Pages 71-99

  6. Race, Security, and Spatial Anxieties in the Postapartheid City

    • Thomas Blom Hansen
    Pages 101-134

  7. Remaking Urban Socialities

    • Abdou Maliq Simone
    Pages 135-168

  8. Thin Lines on the Pavement

    • Paul A. Silverstein
    Pages 169-205

  9. Cosmopolistan

    • Oskar Verkaaik
    Pages 207-228

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 229-239
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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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"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.

About the authors

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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