Samenvatting
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.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9781349535866
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan US
Inhoudsopgave
Contents: Introduction; K.Ali & M.Rieker Colonial Urban and Marginalization: Prostitution in the Quartier Reservé of Casablanca; D.Maghraoui Remapping Beirut; M.Yahya Gendered Geographies in the Making of Modern Cairo; M.Rieker Morphology of Social Flows: Segregation and the Public Sphere in Aden; S. Dahlgren Could the Men Move: Women Workers and the Changing Public Sphere in Karachi; K.Ali Elsewhere: Vernacular Cosmopolitanism and Nation-building in the Steel towns of India; S.Roy Practices of Convertibility in Inner City Johannesburg and Douala; A.Simone Race, Security and Spatial Anxieties in the Post-Apartheid City; T.Bloom Hansen Hot Issues, Cool Attitudes; or the Unmaking of a Muhajir Working Class; O.Verkaaik