TY  - BOOK
AU  - Amar,Paul
TI  - Cairo securitized: reconceiving urban justice and social resilience 
SN  - 9781649031716
AV  - HN786.C3 C35 2023
U1  - 305.50962/16 23/eng/20230602
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Cairo, New York
PB  - The American University in Cairo Press
KW  - Sociology, Urban
KW  - Egypt
KW  - Cairo
KW  - Equality
KW  - Human security
KW  - Cairo (Egypt)
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 21st century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - "Until the year 2000, Cairo had been a model megacity, relatively crime free, safe, and public facing. It featured a thriving public culture and vibrant street life. In recent decades, however, the Egyptian state has accelerated a wholesale dismantlement of public education and public sector jobs and reversed the modest land reforms of the Nasser era. As a result, the vast majority of Cairo's people have been forcibly deprived of their social rights, social goods, and educational capital. Eschewing the traditional focus on top-down regime and state security, the contributors to this volume, who represent a wide array of academics, activists, artists, and journalists, explore how repressive policies affect the everyday lives of citizens. They show the ways in which urban security crises are politically fashioned and do not emanate from the urban social fabric on their own: city crime, violence, and fear are created by specific means of extraction, production, and control. Another kind of city can live again. But how? By tackling a range of issues, including public health, transportation, labor safety, and housing and property distribution, Cairo Securitized unsettles simplistic binaries of thug and police, public versus private, and slum versus enclave, and proposes compelling new ways in which securitizing processes can be reversed, reengineered, and replaced with a participatory and equitable urban order."--
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