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. ÍNDICE: Contents: Introduction; K.Ali & M.Rieker - Colonial Urban and Marginalization: Prostitution in the Quartier ReservC) 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
- ISBN: 978-1-4039-7523-2
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 248
- Fecha Publicación: 19/09/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés