Gendering Urban Space in the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa
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 a
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Gendering Urban Space in the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa Edited by Martina Rieker and Kamran Asdar Ali
GENDERING URBAN SPACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, SOUTH ASIA, AND AFRICA
Copyright © Martina Rieker and Kamran Asdar Ali, 2008 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2008 978-1-4039-7523-2 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. First published in 2008 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN™ 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 and Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England RG21 6XS. Companies and representatives throughout the world. PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin’s Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-53586-6 DOI 10.1057/9780230612471
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gendering urban space in the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa / edited by Martina Rieker and Kamran Asdar Ali. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Sociology, Urban—Developing countries—Case studies. 2. Sex role— Developing countries—Case studies. 3. Political participation—Developing countries—Case studies. I. Rieker, Martina. II. Ali, Kamran Asdar, 1961– HT149.5.G46 2008 307.7609172'4—dc22
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A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Scribe Inc. First Edition: June 2008 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments Introduction: Gendering Urban Space Kamran Asdar Ali and Martina Rieker 1
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Morphologies of Social Flows: Segregation, Time, and the Public Sphere Susanne Dahlgren
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Pulp Fictions: Reading Pakistani Domesticity Kamran Asdar Ali
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Race, Security, and Spatial Anxieties in the Postapartheid City Thomas Blom Hansen
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Gendering Urban Colonial Casablanca: The Case of the Quartier Réservé of Bousbir Driss Maghraoui
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Remaking Urban Socialities: The Intersection of the Virtual and the Vulnerable in Inner-city Johannesburg AbdouMaliq Simone Thin Lines on the Pavement: The Racialization and Spatialization of Violence in Postcolonial (Sub)Urban France Paul A. Silverstein
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Contents Cosmopolistan: Culture, Cosmopolitanism, and Gender in Karachi, Pakistan Oskar Verkaaik
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Author Biographies
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Index
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We would like to thank the educational institutions and funding agencies that made it possible for us to assemble groups of excellent scholars at various sites to share their work. These papers represent some of the intellectual outcomes of those workshops. We especially thank the Social Science Research Council (New York); SEPHIS (the SouthSouth Exchange Programme for Research on the History of Develop
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