Since the 1970s, Cairo has experienced tremendous growth and
change. Nearly three million people now live in new urban
communities characterized by unregulated housing, informal economic
activity, and the presence of Islamist groups. Salwa Ismail
examines the effects of these changes in Political Life in Cairo's
New Quarters. Working in Cairo, Ismail interviewed new quarter
residents, observed daily life in markets and alleyways, met with
local leaders, and talked with young men about their encounters
with the government. Rich in ethnographic detail, this work reveals
the city's new urban quarters as sites not only of opposition and
relative autonomy, but also under governmental surveillance and
discipline. In doing so, it situates the everyday within the
context of wider developments in Cairo: the decline of welfarism,
the shift to neoliberal government, and the rise of the security
state. Original and timely, Political Life in Cairo's New Quarters
highlights the interplay of structural changes, state power, and
daily governance, and presents a fascinating analysis of urban
transformation and power struggles--as international forces meet
local communities in a major city of the global south. Salwa Ismail
is a senior lecturer in politics at the University of Exeter.
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