The Afterlives of Cairenes: the Making of New Social Geographies from Elsewhere than Bulaq Abule’lla
Some major events change people’s lives, while everyday events constitute their living times. In this paper, I look at the afterlives of Maspero Triangle and Ramlet Bulaq where the residents were dispossessed through forced and negotiated evictions (Khalil 2019, 102), unfulfilled promises, and discu...
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Égypte/Monde arabe
2021
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| Résumé: | Some major events change people’s lives, while everyday events constitute their living times. In this paper, I look at the afterlives of Maspero Triangle and Ramlet Bulaq where the residents were dispossessed through forced and negotiated evictions (Khalil 2019, 102), unfulfilled promises, and discursive violence. I argue how varied forms of violence, along with the conflicts around real estate, created a status of being as afterlives for the people’s everyday details in the aftermath of leaving Bulaq Abule’lla. The paper looks at residents’ memories and their afterlives at the new neighborhoods, additionally to their new geographies’ understanding. The paper is based on a multi-sited ethnography in four neighborhoods. I explain my argument through four walks starting from Bulaq Abule’lla to other geographies in Cairo and Giza. The four walks alongside four different persons: two collaborators from Maspero Triangle, and two from Ramlet Bulaq. The main actors in this paper are the residents of Bulaq Abule’lla who were relocated from their homes and reside in new neighborhoods. |
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