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Physical Space and Spatiality in Muslim Societies - Notes on the Social Production of Cities (Hardcover)
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Physical Space and Spatiality in Muslim Societies - Notes on the Social Production of Cities (Hardcover)
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Mahbub Rashid embarks on a fascinating journey through urban space
in all of its physical and social aspects, using the theories of
Foucault, Bourdieu, Lefebvre, and others to explore how consumer
capitalism, colonialism, and power disparity consciously shape
cities. Using two Muslim cities as case studies, Algiers
(Ottoman/French) and Zanzibar (Ottoman/British), Rashid shows how
Western perceptions can only view Muslim cities through the lens of
colonization-a lens that distorts both physical and social space.
Is it possible, he asks, to find a useable urban past in a timeline
broken by colonization? He concludes that political economy may be
less relevant in premodern cities, that local variation is central
to the understanding of power, that cities engage more actively in
social reproduction than in production, that the manipulation of
space is the exercise of power, that all urban space is a conscious
construct and is therefore not inevitable, and that consumer
capitalism is taking over everyday life. Ultimately, we reconstruct
a present from a fragmented past through local struggles against
the homogenizing power of abstract space.
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