Routledge handbook on contemporary Egypt
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Routledge handbook on contemporary Egypt
(Routledge handbooks)
Routledge, 2021
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Other editors: Amr Adly, Anthony Gorman, Tamir Moustafa, Aisha Saad, Naomi Sakr, Sarah Smierciak
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
A uniquely multidisciplinary analysis of the history, politics, economy, legal system, environment and popular culture of contemporary Egypt.
Chapters written by Egyptian and non-Egyptian specialists
A collaborative project led by seven editors each of whom is a leading expert in the respective subfield
Ideal as a general introduction to contemporary Egypt
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- PART I History Introduction: Occupation, independence, revolution
- 1 Building the Egyptian state? Infrastructural systems, education, and urbanization (1919-2011)
- 2 The ideological roots of authoritarianism in Egypt
- 3 Egypt's foreign policy from Faruq to Mubarak
- 4 Activism and contentious politics in Egypt: The case of the student movement
- 5 Framing the past: Historian, state and society
- PART II Politics Introduction: The evolution of military rule in Egypt
- 6 Genesis of coup-proofing in Egypt: Civil-military relations under King Faruq and beyond
- 7 The fingers of the "invisible hand": Egypt's government institutions
- 8 Islamism in Egypt
- 9 Civil society and revolution (2000-present)
- 10 Egypt's post-uprising foreign policy
- PART III Economy Introduction: A brief history of nation, state, and market
- 11 State-business relations in neoliberal Egypt: The global political economy of subordinate integration
- 12 Why Egypt's trade policy failed to improve its external competitiveness
- 13 Egypt's foreign direct investment regime: Evolution and limitations
- 14 The political economy of workers' remittances in Egypt
- 15 Encroachments: Land, power and predation
- PART IV Law and human rights Introduction
- 16 Judges, elections, and constitutional politics after the 2011 Revolution
- 17 Lawyers and politics: Lawyering and counter-lawyering in Egypt
- 18 Law, exceptional courts and revolution in modern Egypt
- 19 The Egyptian human rights movement: Between political autonomy and accommodation of authoritarianism
- PART V Natural and built environments Introduction: Visions and realities of the struggle for development
- 20 Sustainable water resource management in Egypt
- 21 Egypt's conflicting urbanism: Informality versus new desert development
- 22 Livability of Egyptian cities
- 23 The cultural heritage of Egypt's cities: Burden or resource?
- PART VI Media and popular culture Introduction: Divergent trajectories of creativity and coercion
- 24 The culture police: Manning the barricades of allowable art and culture
- 25 Media ownership in Egypt (2000-2020): Categories and configurations
- 26 Tweeting the revolution: The evolution of social media use in Egypt's turbulent times
- 27 Ring-fenced religion? Egypt's religious media between faith and politics
- 28 Cooperativism, revolution and the 'digital turn': Assessing recent Egyptian film collectives
- 29 The rise of indie music from the heart of Tahrir Square: Politics and popular music in Egypt
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