Enclaving the City; New Models of Containing the Urban Populations: A Case Study of Cairo

Ashoub, Safa H.; Elkhateeb, Mohamed W.

doi:10.17645/up.v6i2.3880

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“…The inner roads inside Cairo are being widened, and overpass bridges are being constructed to connect the main agglomeration with the NAC. These constructions reduced the urban quality of the neighborhoods by removing trees, parks, and even residential buildings in many districts in East Cairo (Aly & Dimitrijevic, 2022;Ashoub & Elkhateeb, 2021;Elkhateeb, 2020).…”

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“…We collected data from the photos, videos, posts, and comments published by each group on their Facebook platforms during the years 2018 and 2019. Social media is a resourceful medium for data collection in contexts without proper public databases, where citizens are limited in the available spaces on the ground to practice activism (Ashoub & Elkhateeb, 2021), and when participants are hard-toreach (Lijadi & van Schalkwyk, 2015). We focused on observing and analyzing the active groups' strategies and aims in the data.…”

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Local Activism in Urban Neighborhood Governance

Elwageeh

2023

Architecture and the Built Environment

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This study investigates local activism in politically challenging contexts, focusing on Cairo. In such contexts, active resident groups strive for urban improvement, while governance arrangements often disregard citizen involvement in urban and public affairs. Cairo presents an exemplary case of local activism in a politically challenging and under-researched context. The study explores the characteristics, roles, and interrelations of active resident groups with local governance arrangements and their deviations from existing literature. It employs a qualitative methodology with observations and semi-structured interviews with local officials and active residents from nine different districts. The study uses Facebook to select, observe, and analyze the activities of multiple active resident groups and contributes to theoretical frameworks for analyzing local activism in complex contexts. It reveals the dominant and absent roles and the governance dimensions (un)attainable by active residents. It also traces the sources of limited local activism in the existing governance arrangements in Cairo, highlighting the importance and difficulty of changing governance arrangements in Egypt. The study broadens our understanding of local activism in the Global South beyond dominant forms of activism.

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Local Activism in Urban Neighborhood Governance

Elwageeh

2023

Architecture and the Built Environment

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“…Schuermans, 2016; Phelps et al ., 2020). For, building on an incisive analysis of the linkages between enclave urban development and political and spatial fragmentation in Cairo, Ashoub and Elkhateeb (2021) note that there is a dire need to grapple with enclaving beyond fixing our gaze on walls or material structures. As such, and as we show below, the case of ACL can be instructive in this regard thanks to its focus on the cascading effects on livelihoods beyond the immediate exclusive spaces of the City of Light.…”

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A SHADOWY ‘CITY OF LIGHT’: Private Urbanism, Large‐Scale Land Acquisition and Dispossession in Ghana

Ablo¹,

Bertelsen²

2022

Int J Urban Regional Res

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The rapid expansion of African cities has created both housing deficits and a pluralization of urban orders, including the growth of slum settlements. With an everincreasing middle class, urban sub-Saharan Africa is now also characterized by large-scale land acquisition processes linked to the construction of wholly private and increasingly enclaved cities. This article maps the impacts of the Appolonia City of Light project--a privately built enclaved city catering to the housing needs of a rapidly growing middle class in Ghana. Building on field research and exploring various dimensions of the development marketed as 'The City of Light', we highlight how the project has dramatically altered social relations and resulted in dispossession rippling through nearby local communities. We therefore argue that, instead of merely focusing on the actual physical spaces of private developments or turning attention to often phantasmagoric and utopic visions of the future, research should be directed at changes in the immediate surroundings of urban developments. We highlight the problematic land acquisition inherent to such enclaved developments and demonstrate how these intrinsically constitute assemblages of livelihoods and exemplify dynamics of appropriation, dispossession and commodification.

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“…I treat the vacant billboards moment as a glitch that orients our attention to the multiple temporalities inhabiting the outdoor advertisement that uses infrastructures and built environment. Finally, I focus on what many have noticed as a bridge, highways, and flyover mania that characterizes changing urban planning in Cairo especially post-2013 (Ashoub and Elkhateeb, 2021; Dessouki, 2020; Higazy, 2021). The time of the curfew was punctuated by the extension and inauguration of a series of these projects.…”

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Kites, billboards and bridges: Reading the city’s curfew through the glitch

Nassar

2023

Environ Plan D

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This article is an attempt at reading the city through what gets extended and/or suspended in it in a time of an interruption, or a glitch. It does this while thinking about Cairo's curfew during the summer of 2020. I focus on this short pause that disrupted what is perceived to be regular urban life in a place like Cairo. Centering a collaboration with the Egyptian visual artist Azza Ezzat, we read some snapshots of this seemingly minor interruption through three ordinary objects that inhabit the city’s skyline: kites, billboards, and bridges. Through these three objects that suspend at the interstices of a skyline, I trace suspensions and extensions of infrastructure, broadly defined. My contention is that the glitch of the curfew helps to make apparent ongoing processes and infrastructures that keep a post-revolutionary Cairo going (for better or for worse). I propose that the material and affective affordance of the glitch provide a lens that disinvests from the logics of exception and states of emergency that have dominated research on the country and even on the city.

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Enclaving the City; New Models of Containing the Urban Populations: A Case Study of Cairo

Cited by 13 publications

References 33 publications

Local Activism in Urban Neighborhood Governance

Local Activism in Urban Neighborhood Governance

A SHADOWY ‘CITY OF LIGHT’: Private Urbanism, Large‐Scale Land Acquisition and Dispossession in Ghana

Kites, billboards and bridges: Reading the city’s curfew through the glitch

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