ISBN:
9780253001955
,
0253001951
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xvii, 263 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Peterson, Mark Allen Connected in Cairo
DDC:
306.096216
Keywords:
Consumption (Economics) Egypt
;
Cairo
;
Cosmopolitanism Egypt
;
Cairo
;
Social mobility Egypt
;
Cairo
;
Kairo
;
Egypt
;
Cairo
;
Consumption (Economics)
;
Cosmopolitanism
;
Social mobility
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
;
Consumption (Economics)
;
Cosmopolitanism
;
Social mobility
;
Soziale Mobilität
;
Verbraucherverhalten
;
Weltbürgertum
;
Egypt ; Cairo
;
Kairo
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
For members of Cairo's upper classes, cosmopolitanism is a form of social capital, deployed whenever they acquire or consume transnational commodities, or goods that are linked in the popular imagination to other, more "modern" places. In a series of thickly described and carefully contextualized case studies -- of Arabic children's magazines, Pokémon, private schools and popular films, coffee shops and fast-food restaurants -- Mark Allen Peterson describes the social practices that create class identities. He traces these processes from childhood into adulthood, examining how taste and style intersect with a changing educational system and economic liberalization. Peterson reveals how uneasy many cosmopolitan Cairenes are with their new global identities, and describes their efforts to root themselves in the local through religious, nationalist, or linguistic practices
Abstract:
Toward an anthropology of connections -- Making kids modern: agency and identity in Arabic children's magazines -- Pokemon panics: class play in the private schools -- Talk like an Egyptian: negotiating identity at the American University in Cairo -- Coffee shops and gender in translocal spaces -- The global and the multilocal: development, enterprise, and culture brokers.
Note:
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Feb. 16, 2012). - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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