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. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgments......Page 8 Introduction: Gendering Urban Space......Page 10 1 Gendering Urban Colonial Casablanca: The Case of the Quartier Réservé of Bousbir......Page 26 2 Morphologies of Social Flows: Segregation, Time, and the Public Sphere......Page 54 3 Pulp Fictions: Reading Pakistani Domesticity......Page 80 4 Race, Security, and Spatial Anxieties in the Postapartheid City......Page 110 5 Remaking Urban Socialities: The Intersection of the Virtual and the Vulnerable in Inner-city Johannesburg......Page 144 6 Thin Lines on the Pavement: The Racialization and Spatialization of Violence in Postcolonial SubUrban France......Page 178 7 Cosmopolistan: Culture, Cosmopolitanism, and Gender in Karachi, Pakistan......Page 216 Author Biographies......Page 238 B......Page 240 C......Page 241 F......Page 242 J......Page 243 M......Page 244 P......Page 245 S......Page 246 Y......Page 247 Z......Page 248 "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