Cairo Collages: Everyday Life Practices after the Event
Mona Abaza
Abstract
In Cairo collages, the large-scale political, economic, and social changes in Egypt brought on by the 2011 revolution are set against the declining fortunes of a single apartment building in a specific Cairo neighbourhood. The violence in Tahrir Square and Mohamed Mahmud Street; the post-January euphoric moment; the increasing militarisation of urban life; the flourishing of dystopian novels set in Cairo; the neo-liberal imaginaries of Dubai and Singapore as global models; gentrification and evictions in poor neighbourhoods; the forthcoming new administrative capital for Egypt – all are narrat ... More
Keywords: militarisation of urban life, modern building as topos, nostalgia, gentrification/gated communities, urban dystopia, everyday interaction in sociological theory, neo-liberalism, the building as topos
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2020 | Print ISBN-13: 9781526145116 |
| Published to Manchester Scholarship Online: September 2020 | DOI:10.7765/9781526145123 |
