Gendering Urban Space in the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa

The essays in this book critically examine the ways in which gendered subjects negotiate their life-worlds in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African urban landscapes. They raise issues surrounding the city as a representative site of personal autonomy and political possibilities for women and/or men. "This volume brings forward an understanding of the urban gendered experience in the Global South (the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa). It raises issues surrounding the city as a representative site of personal autonomy and political possibility for women and men and shows how women's and men's interaction with various sites, routes, and spaces within the city is bounded by gender and sexuality. The papers in this book also investigate the local grammars of urbanity and rurality and explore how class, ethic, and racial boundary-making impact men's and women's relationships to various spaces within the city. Further, there is a focus on the political space provided for gendered subjects to circumvent, resist, or renegotiate state sponsored attempts to reorder the urban landscape. Raising such questions in a comparative context is essential to refocus our research agendas and to inspire new studies."--Jacket Front Matter....Pages i-vii Introduction....Pages 1-16 Gendering Urban Colonial Casablanca....Pages 17-43 Morphologies of Social Flows....Pages 45-70 Pulp Fictions....Pages 71-99 Race, Security, and Spatial Anxieties in the Postapartheid City....Pages 101-134 Remaking Urban Socialities....Pages 135-168 Thin Lines on the Pavement....Pages 169-205 Cosmopolistan....Pages 207-228 Back Matter....Pages 229-239