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.
Author(s): Martina Rieker, Kamran Asdar Ali
Edition: First Edition
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 248
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Introduction: Gendering Urban Space......Page 10
1 Gendering Urban Colonial Casablanca: The Case of the Quartier Réservé of Bousbir......Page 26
2 Morphologies of Social Flows: Segregation, Time, and the Public Sphere......Page 54
3 Pulp Fictions: Reading Pakistani Domesticity......Page 80
4 Race, Security, and Spatial Anxieties in the Postapartheid City......Page 110
5 Remaking Urban Socialities: The Intersection of the Virtual and the Vulnerable in Inner-city Johannesburg......Page 144
6 Thin Lines on the Pavement: The Racialization and Spatialization of Violence in Postcolonial SubUrban France......Page 178
7 Cosmopolistan: Culture, Cosmopolitanism, and Gender in Karachi, Pakistan......Page 216
Author Biographies......Page 238
B......Page 240
C......Page 241
F......Page 242
J......Page 243
M......Page 244
P......Page 245
S......Page 246
Y......Page 247
Z......Page 248
