"Where life comes together", the imagined meanings of lived geographies, a case study of two gated communities in the greater cairo region, egypt
(2013) SGEK02 20122Department of Human Geography
- Abstract
- This essay concerns the imagined meanings of life in relation to
Mivida and Al Rehab, two gated communities in the Greater Cairo Region,
Egypt. It is based on promotional material and interviews conducted with
relevant actors. It discusses, through a Gramscian-Foucauldian approach,
how hegemonic narratives of life and the urban constitute privatized lived
geographies, where the neoliberal subject lives. The narratives are formulated in relation to other parts of Cairo, and are commonsensical in their claim for validity. Though, they only include some within the gates as well as within the good urban. Concluding, these narratives are placed within the neoliberal city as a way to reconstitute places into the global realms of capital.
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- author
- Gustafsson, Jennie LU
- supervisor
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- Guy Baeten LU
- organization
- course
- SGEK02 20122
- year
- 2013
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- hegemony, fictitious capital, user value, neoliberalism, gated community, Cairo, Greater Cairo Region, common sense, biopolitics, the enterprise form
- language
- English
- id
- 3561177
- date added to LUP
- 2013-03-22 10:35:18
- date last changed
- 2013-03-22 10:35:18
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