CAIRO WORKSHOP: February 26-27, 2005

ABSTRACTS

Kamran Asdar Ali, ISIM & University of Texas at Austin
Could the Men Move: Women Workers and the Changing Public Sphere in Pakistan

Alev Cinar, Bilkent University
The City, the Body and the Nation:
Negotiating a Place for Islam in Secular Spaces in Turkey

Susanne Dahlgren, University of Helsinki
Morphology of Social Flows: Segregation and the Public Sphere (Aden, Yemen)

Francesca Declich, University of Urbino
From Farming along a River to Making a Living in Dar Es Salaam’s Suburbs

Thomas Bloom Hansen, Yale University
Race, Security and Spatial Anxieties in the Post-Apartheid City

Driss Maghraoui, Al-Akhawayn University
Colonial Urban and Marginalization: Prostitution in the Quartier Reservé of Casablanca

Amy Mills, University of Kentucky
Gentrification and Gendered Neighboring in Istanbul

Srirupa Roy, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Elsewhere: Vernacular cosmopolitanism and nation-building in the steel towns of India

Soheila Shahshahani, Shahid Beheshti University
Gender Discrimination According to Space Occupation, A Preliminary Study of Tehran

Dina Sidiqqi, University of Pennsylvania
Women in Question: Globalization, Perilous Spaces and Imperiled States

AbdouMaliq Simone, New School University
Practices of Convertibility in Inner City Johannesburg and Douala

Smitri Srivinas & James Heizmann, University of California at Davis
Body Culture, Performance, and Planning in an Indian City

Sabiha Sumar, Independent Filmmaker (Delhi)
City of Lights

Chandraguptha Thenuwara, University of Kelaniya
Barrelism: A Response to the Militarization of Urban Space

Oskar Verkaaik, University of Amsterdam
Hot Issues: Ethnicity, Islam, and Gender in Urban Sindh

Maha Yahya, American University in Beirut
Remapping Beirut

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