Cairo as Capital of Socialist Revolution?

Abstract

This chapter evokes the two very different spectacles of modernity as illustrations of two contrasting spatial modes of regulation: a social-welfare mode of regulation for the period spanning the 1930s to the 1960s, and a neoliberal mode of regulation for the period after economic liberalization (Infitah), roughly beginning in the late 1970s. The chapter contends that the land-reclamation schemes in Cairo were indicative of spatial practices enmeshed within the reproduction of a particular “mode of regulation.” suggests that the period of the 1930s to the 1960s was characterized by an emphasis upon social welfare, and the projects of horizontal land reclamation were imbued with what it terms a pioneering ethic, geared toward the conquering of spatial boundaries and the expansion of a frontier, in order to form a community of settlers.

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