Description: Further DetailsTitle: Connected in CairoCondition: NewEAN: 9780253223111ISBN: 9780253223111Publisher: Indiana University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/06/2011Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 431gAuthor: Mark Allen PetersonLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Growing up Cosmopolitan in the Modern Middle EastISBN-10: 0253223113Description: 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Society & CultureBook Series: Public Cultures of the Middle East and North AfricaTopic: Social Sciences, Children's Learning & EducationRelease Year: 2011 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Connected in Cairo
Title: Connected in Cairo
EAN: 9780253223111
ISBN: 9780253223111
Release Date: 05/06/2011
Release Year: 2011
Subtitle: Growing up Cosmopolitan in the Modern Middle East
ISBN-10: 0253223113
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Children's Learning & Education
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Connected in Cairo : Growing Up Cosmopolitan in the Modern Middle East
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Media Studies, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, International Relations / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Economics / General, Comparative, Middle East / Egypt (See Also Ancient / Egypt)
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2011
Item Weight: 15.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.1 in
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, Education, Business & Economics, History
Author: Mark Allen Peterson
Series: Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa Ser.
Item Width: 7.3 in
Format: Trade Paperback
