Reclaiming the city’s core: Urban accumulation, surplus (re)production and discipline in Cairo

Lama Tawakkol

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.12.014

Reclaiming the city’s core: Urban accumulation, surplus (re)production and discipline in Cairo

Lama Tawakkol

Politics

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Highlights
•Evictions in Cairo reflect a shift to neoliberal authoritarianism since 2014.
•This shift prioritizes the state’s urban accumulation and economically benefits it.
•The evictions also (re)produce surplus labor, to the state’s economic benefit.
• Politically, the evictions depoliticize central Cairo and discipline its population.
• While power relations favor the state, they are not static and are contested.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	420-430
Number of pages	11
Journal	Geoforum
Volume	126
Early online date	31 Jan 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.12.014
Publication status	Published - Nov 2021

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Reclaiming the city’s core: Urban accumulation, surplus (re)production and discipline in Cairo

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