Spaces of the maybe: fragments as new urban possibilities in Cairo’s extended urbanisation

El-Husseiny, Momen

doi:10.1080/17549175.2022.2137686

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“…Momen El‐Husseiny (2022) explores how during turbulent times, governments sometimes promote new cities at a massive scale through constructing an atmosphere of the unknown, where all sorts of multifarious operations take place to ensure state domination. Here, speculative architecture becomes a means to pave the way for operative control.…”

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The atmospheres of massiveness: The politics and times of the maybe in Southern megaregions

Akoth,

Anwar,

Bathla

et al. 2024

Geographical Journal

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In this introduction to the special issue on massive urbanisation, the collective that has prepared this issue reviews the thinking and experiences that have been important to them. The reflections centre on the use of ‘massive’ in Jamaican patois, where it has two countervailing meanings. On the one hand, it means an inordinate lack of sensitivity to the real conditions taking place, a sense of extreme self‐inflation beyond reason. On the other, it means a collectivity coming into being without a set form, but reflective of a desire for collaboration and mutuality. Massive urbanisation thus means here both the voluminous expansion of speculative accumulation, extraction of land value, replication of vast inequities and disfunction, and the continuous emergence of new forms of urban inhabitation, a constant remaking of the social field by what has been called the urban majority. All of the contributions attempt to work with this sense of doubleness, amplifying the creation of particular atmospheres of the urban as a materiality of its heterogeneity.

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Section: Individual Trajectoriesmentioning

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The atmospheres of massiveness: The politics and times of the maybe in Southern megaregions

Akoth,

Anwar,

Bathla

et al. 2024

Geographical Journal

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Exploring the creative city in post-revolutionary Downtown Cairo: On coworking spaces and neoliberal strategies in New Egypt

Mourad,

El-Husseiny,

Shafik

2024

Journal of Urban Affairs

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Questions of cityness at the extensions: Law, discrimination and Cairo’s desert from the lens of Frantz Fanon’s urban passant

El-Husseiny

2023

Dialogues in Human Geography

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This commentary engages with the rich conundrum outlined in Simone et al.'s ‘Inhabiting the Extensions’ by extending its prose with the polemics of discrimination, justice, agency and refusal at Cairo's desert extensions. As people fail to redress injustices inherited from the colonial past, haunting their future becoming, questions of cityness prevail as to how extensions re-produce hegemonic experiments albeit in new orientations. In quest of the good life, I posit the urban passant as a politics of agency and postcolonial subjectivity drawn from Frantz Fanon, which elucidates people's tactics, spirals and maneuvers when confronting traditions of the oppressed. The purpose here is to develop a situated liberatory politics from within the middle of things.

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Spaces of the maybe: fragments as new urban possibilities in Cairo’s extended urbanisation

Cited by 3 publications

References 32 publications

The atmospheres of massiveness: The politics and times of the maybe in Southern megaregions

The atmospheres of massiveness: The politics and times of the maybe in Southern megaregions

Exploring the creative city in post-revolutionary Downtown Cairo: On coworking spaces and neoliberal strategies in New Egypt

Questions of cityness at the extensions: Law, discrimination and Cairo’s desert from the lens of Frantz Fanon’s urban passant

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