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Negotiation of Space in Garden City: Urban Securitization, Gender, Everydayness and Affective Encounters.

This thesis is based on ethnographic research that explores the everyday lives of the group of people and the interplay of affect, gender and governmentality in Garden City as a securitized space. The research looks at the erection of walls, the ubiquity of barricades and checkpoints across Cairo po...

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Main Author: Magdy, Diana
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description This thesis is based on ethnographic research that explores the everyday lives of the group of people and the interplay of affect, gender and governmentality in Garden City as a securitized space. The research looks at the erection of walls, the ubiquity of barricades and checkpoints across Cairo post-2011 with focus on Garden City, which demonstrates the technologies of separation, domination, and control producing different spatial arrangement. Moreover, these techniques of control become an expression of power and the securitization of urban life as well as imposing a feeling of incarceration in the city. Nevertheless, the research goes beyond this grid of discipline by investigating the state of becoming of Garden City within such context through following the personal accounts of a group of youth who moved to the place post-2011. These personal accounts stretch out the multifaceted narratives and representations of Garden City. Through this ethnographic fieldwork, I was able to attend to the everydayness of these subjects, demonstrating how they affected the politics of place and space while navigating the different forms of governmentality in relation to individuals, groups and social structures. This research project attempts to document, to grasp, to capture and to convey the embodied experiences, the affective encounters and relations that emerged in this becoming. Additionally, it unravels the minute acts of resisting, challenging and negotiating the grid of discipline that is situated in the events of everyday life.
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spelling oai:fount.aucegypt.edu:etds-2347 Negotiation of Space in Garden City: Urban Securitization, Gender, Everydayness and Affective Encounters. Magdy, Diana This thesis is based on ethnographic research that explores the everyday lives of the group of people and the interplay of affect, gender and governmentality in Garden City as a securitized space. The research looks at the erection of walls, the ubiquity of barricades and checkpoints across Cairo post-2011 with focus on Garden City, which demonstrates the technologies of separation, domination, and control producing different spatial arrangement. Moreover, these techniques of control become an expression of power and the securitization of urban life as well as imposing a feeling of incarceration in the city. Nevertheless, the research goes beyond this grid of discipline by investigating the state of becoming of Garden City within such context through following the personal accounts of a group of youth who moved to the place post-2011. These personal accounts stretch out the multifaceted narratives and representations of Garden City. Through this ethnographic fieldwork, I was able to attend to the everydayness of these subjects, demonstrating how they affected the politics of place and space while navigating the different forms of governmentality in relation to individuals, groups and social structures. This research project attempts to document, to grasp, to capture and to convey the embodied experiences, the affective encounters and relations that emerged in this becoming. Additionally, it unravels the minute acts of resisting, challenging and negotiating the grid of discipline that is situated in the events of everyday life. 2018-06-01T07:00:00Z thesis application/pdf https://fount.aucegypt.edu/etds/1348 https://fount.aucegypt.edu/context/etds/article/2347/viewcontent/Diana_20Magdy_20__20Thesis_20__20Negotiation_20of_20Space_20in_20Garden_20City.pdf The author retains all rights with regard to copyright. The author certifies that written permission from the owner(s) of third-party copyrighted matter included in the thesis, dissertation, paper, or record of study has been obtained. The author further certifies that IRB approval has been obtained for this thesis, or that IRB approval is not necessary for this thesis. Insofar as this thesis, dissertation, paper, or record of study is an educational record as defined in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) (20 USC 1232g), the author has granted consent to disclosure of it to anyone who requests a copy. The author has granted the American University in Cairo or its agents a non-exclusive license to archive this thesis, dissertation, paper, or record of study, and to make it accessible, in whole or in part, in all forms of media, now or hereafter known. Theses and Dissertations AUC Knowledge Fountain Garden City;Urban Securitization;
spellingShingle Garden City;Urban Securitization;
Magdy, Diana
Negotiation of Space in Garden City: Urban Securitization, Gender, Everydayness and Affective Encounters.
title Negotiation of Space in Garden City: Urban Securitization, Gender, Everydayness and Affective Encounters.
title_full Negotiation of Space in Garden City: Urban Securitization, Gender, Everydayness and Affective Encounters.
title_fullStr Negotiation of Space in Garden City: Urban Securitization, Gender, Everydayness and Affective Encounters.
title_full_unstemmed Negotiation of Space in Garden City: Urban Securitization, Gender, Everydayness and Affective Encounters.
title_short Negotiation of Space in Garden City: Urban Securitization, Gender, Everydayness and Affective Encounters.
title_sort negotiation of space in garden city urban securitization gender everydayness and affective encounters
topic Garden City;Urban Securitization;
url https://fount.aucegypt.edu/etds/1348
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