Thesis
The common in a compound: morality, ownership, and legality in Cairo’s squatted gated community
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In Haram City, amidst Egypt's 2011–2013 revolutionary period, two visions of the city in the Global South come together within shared walls. In this private suburban development marketed as affordable housing, aspirational middle class homebuyers embellish properties for privilege and safety. They also come to share grounds with resettled urban poor who transform their surroundings to sustain basic livelihoods. With legality in disarray and under private administration, residents originall...
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+ Keith, M
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
SAME
Sub department:
Social & Cultural Anthropology
Role:
Supervisor
+ Jeffrey, C
Department:
Australia India Institute, University of Melbourne
Role:
Supervisor
+ Armbrust, W
Department:
MIddle East Centre, University of Oxford
Role:
Examiner
+ Jones, G
Department:
Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science
Role:
Examiner
Funding
+ St Antony’s College
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Grant:
Ali Pachachi Doctoral Studentship
Final Year Writing Bursary
AntonianFund&Carr
StahlFundTravelBursaries
Bibliographic Details
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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- Language:
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English
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- Deposit date:
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2016-12-16
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