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Fahmi, Wael Salah

 
9783846528471: Bloggers' Right to the City: Navigating Cairo's Real and Virtual Spaces of Freedom
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ISBN 10 : 3846528471 ISBN 13 : 9783846528471
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

Faced with formidable challenges to expression in Cairo's public spaces, urban blogger activists have developed new means of articulating dissent with spatial tactics from boycott campaigns, cyber-activism and protest art to innovations in mobilisation, modes of communication and organisational flexibility. Urban blogger activists have transformed Spaces of Freedom into heterotopian zones for public protest, employing urban installations and street graffiti, prompting the construction of a significant site of urban resistance and spatial contestation. This was particularly evident during January 2011 pro-democracy street rallies and sit-ins within Cairo’s Tahrir Square, this part of the city being regarded as a contested site for collective action and as a symbolic space for urban youth's political participation and spatial appropriation. The emergence of this grassroots street activism opens up a new public sphere through which the role of urban governance might be contested to accommodate cultural identities within various forms of spatiality and popular democracy.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Faced with formidable challenges to expression in Cairo's public spaces, urban blogger activists have developed new means of articulating dissent with spatial tactics from boycott campaigns, cyber-activism and protest art to innovations in mobilisation, modes of communication and organisational flexibility. Urban blogger activists have transformed Spaces of Freedom into heterotopian zones for public protest, employing urban installations and street graffiti, prompting the construction of a significant site of urban resistance and spatial contestation. This was particularly evident during January 2011 pro-democracy street rallies and sit-ins within Cairo’s Tahrir Square, this part of the city being regarded as a contested site for collective action and as a symbolic space for urban youth's political participation and spatial appropriation. The emergence of this grassroots street activism opens up a new public sphere through which the role of urban governance might be contested to accommodate cultural identities within various forms of spatiality and popular democracy.

Biographie de l'auteur

Wael Fahmi is an architect who received his PhD in Planning andLandscape from the University of Manchester (UK). He teachesarchitecture and urbanism at Helwan University in Cairo. As a visitingacademic at University of Manchester, he has been undergoing jointresearch on Greater Cairo’s urban growth and housing problems andsocial movements.

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3846528471
ISBN 13 
9783846528471
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
96
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