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Comparing Cities: The Middle East and South Asia

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Comparing Cities: The Middle East and South Asia - Ali, Kamran Asdar (Editor), and Rieker, Martina (Editor)
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This book highlights the changing social dynamics in Middle Eastern and South Asian cities. The comparative framework builds on a shared history of the colonial encounter, modernity, nationalism and urbanity and is further deepened by the larger framework of Muslim culture that influences social life in both spaces. The various chapters rethink the gendered dimension of public spaces and investigate the relationship between the popular and the political in these regions. They also take into account how larger structural ...

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Comparing Cities: The Middle East and South Asia 2009, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780195474985

Hardcover