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Fuccaro, Nelida

doi:10.1215/1089201x-2020327

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“…It is common to imagine the modern city as the city of oil, with its reliance on car, its networks of highways and clover-leaf interchanges, or on another register, the high-rise headquarters of petroleum companies (Hein 2010). Such a view is of course particularly relevant for Arab cities, which sometimes were literally born out of the oil fields (Fuccaro 2013). Nevertheless, in this article, I choose to insist more on the link between electricity and city.…”

Section: Energy Transition and Urban Metabolism: The Case Of Electricitymentioning

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The Energy of Revolts in Arab Cities: The Case of Jordan and Tunisia

Verdeil¹

2014

Built Eviron

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Section: Energy Transition and Urban Metabolism: The Case Of Electricitymentioning

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The Energy of Revolts in Arab Cities: The Case of Jordan and Tunisia

Verdeil¹

2014

Built Eviron

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“…Recent work (e.g. Fuccaro ) has escaped the essentializing assumption that oil abundance operates only through rentierism, the process through which states forestall the implementation of democratic reforms by buying off the citizenry with oil revenues. Yet most work remains wedded to the notion of oil as the primary reason for studying urbanism in the Gulf.…”

Section: A Genealogy Of Exceptionmentioning

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Introduction to Special Section: The Un‐Exceptional Middle Eastern City

El-Kazaz

Mazur

2017

City & Society

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This special section of City and Society is dedicated to de-exceptionalizing the study of Middle Eastern cities. The introduction argues that the study of Middle Eastern cities has been constrained in its analytical and methodological focus by a genealogy shaped by a triad of regional exceptions-Islam, oil, and authoritarianism-and that the three pieces curated for this special section move beyond those constraints in important ways. Focusing on geographical places and time periods that have remained peripheral to the study of Middle Eastern cities, the three articles ethnographically historicize the planned and unplanned processes through which cities in the region transform to transcend a genealogy of exceptionalism and the constraints it has created. They highlight the global and local connections that shape these processes to offer new perspectives on the study of scale, verticality and sensoriums in the shaping of urban transformation around the globe. The section developed from a conference on Middle Eastern cities convened at Princeton University in May 2013.

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“…What is left understudied in the vast regional urban studies literature are smaller provincial and non‐metropolitan cities that house a large proportion of the region's urbanites and have undergone dramatic transformations in the twentieth century at different tempos from those of major metropolises (see Fuccaro ). This elision implies that the urban experiences of Cairo and Alexandria, for example, should stand in for the histories of the country's smaller cities: that provincial cities have social and urban processes resembling on a smaller scale those of the larger cities, and that either provincial cities themselves will become like the larger cities (as telos ) over time or their experiences are not important for understanding broader national or regional histories.…”

Section: The High Dam and Middle East Urban Studiesmentioning

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“…Aswan, the southern‐most city in Egypt, has existed since ancient times as a border city because of its proximity to the political, cultural, ethno‐linguistic frontier. The city's continuous existence over several millennia also differentiates Aswan from many global “resource cities” (Fuccaro ) and especially those whose development resulted from their proximity to mega‐dam sites. The relatively recent growth of many of those desert towns, such as Las Vegas during the construction of the Hoover Dam in the 1930s (Benton‐Short and Short , 176–81), did not have to account for existing urban structures and practices.…”

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City of the High Dam: Aswan and the Promise of Postcolonialism in Egypt

Reynolds

2017

City & Society

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Aswan city grew rapidly in the 1950s and 1960s due to the building of the High Dam nearby. The "promising future" of the city involved an array of projects to reconstruct the built environment and modify socio-spatial practices of exclusion that had formed in the colonial period. This article examines several new building projects of the 1960s, such as housing settlements, new riverfront thoroughfares, and transportation systems, as well as imaginaries of city living, expressed in fictional and journalistic writing and film, to excavate a history of the city. The emphasis on debris and cleanliness in these narratives demonstrates that small-scale and local ruin-making practices of residents modified the easy language of promise employed by the postcolonial state. This history reveals the insufficiency of the binary of coercion and consent most often used to explain relations of power and affect in postcolonial states. Provincial cities remain marginalized in Middle Eastern urban studies, and yet the intimate scale of heterogeneity of provincial cities can reveal stark urban geographies of difference.

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Introduction

Cited by 26 publications

References 15 publications

The Energy of Revolts in Arab Cities: The Case of Jordan and Tunisia

The Energy of Revolts in Arab Cities: The Case of Jordan and Tunisia

Introduction to Special Section: The Un‐Exceptional Middle Eastern City

City of the High Dam: Aswan and the Promise of Postcolonialism in Egypt

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