Building 'Community' and Markets in Contemporary Cairo
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2109090 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah El-Kazaz (Oberlin College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 476-505 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417518000129 |
| OpenAlex | W2795278661 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 35 |
This paper interrogates the political economy of re-regulation in market-driven economies through the lens of transformations in contemporary Cairo. Focusing on property markets, the paper demonstrates that rather than reveling in the 'freeing' of real estate through the reversal of rent control laws, private sector actors were working to re-regulate the real estate market. They were not turning to legal mechanisms or patronage networks, but invested in the production of local 'community' in central Cairo as they worked to re-regulate the market. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork from 2011-2012, the paper compares how two private sector actors with varying relationships to the market reacted to the reversal of rent control. The paper demonstrates that both actors were mobilizing urban planning and architectural design as modes of societal engineering to foster local particularistic communities as they worked to corner real estate markets both upward toward a high-end clientele and downwards towards low-income residents. In unpacking how these actors mobilized community as they worked to intervene in markets, and their interventions' contradictions, the paper challenges the idea thattrustor relational networks are the most valued facets of community in market-transitioning economies. It shows that actors value the spatial boundary-setting and particularism of communities as they work to re-regulate markets, and accentuatedifferencerather than trust in those contexts
Control (management) · Economics · Economy · Ethnography · Management · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Real estate · Sociology · Work (physics) · Finance · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Urban Planning and Governance
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Remaking the Modern
The Will to Improve
Last Project Standing
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Bowling alone
Foucault and Political Reason
Governing "advanced" liberal democracies
Egypt's Desert Dreams
When Capitalists Collide
The Moral Foundations of Trust
Misteri i Kapitalit
Foucault And Political Reason
Markets of Dispossession
The Global City
Naked City
From Managerialism to Entrepreneurialism
Rule of Experts
Backtracking to sustainable urban development and working with local communities
Illusory Debates
The Moral Foundations of Trust
The role of the state in managing urban land supply and prices in Egypt
Cities and the Geographies of “Actually Existing Neoliberalism”
The Origins of Private Ownership of Land in Egypt
The production of space
Making Democracy Work
Brief History of Neoliberalism
The Moral Neoliberal
Seeing Like a State
A cultural geometry
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |