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309 S. Gebundene Ausgabe

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Fresh and clean hardcover copy in good condition with original dustjacket. Frisches und sauberes Hardcover-Exemplar in gutem Zustand mit Original-Schutzumschlag. CONTENTS - Acknowledgements - Glossary - Introduction - Inter-Personal and Inter-Textual Negotiations - The Organization of the Book - Chapter One Consumer Culture in Divided Cairo - Segregated Cities - City-Malls - Back to Cairo - How to Emulate the Asian Tigers? - Beirut - Dubai - The Virtual City and its Double - Chapter Two Consumer Studies in the Middle East: The Blind Spot - Globalization and Landscapes Compared - The Public Sphere and Public Spaces - The Emerging of the Public Sphere and ?Spaces? - Les Grands Magasins: Forgotten Early Egyptian Consumerism - The Social Life of Malls - A New Public Sphere - Chapter Three Memories - The Ideal and Nasr Companies - Bauhaus - Continuities - Transformations/Metamorphosis in Continuity - Household Consumption - Shopping - Fashion in the 1960?s - The Language of Fashion - Readings and Private Lessons - Birthdays - Living in Zamalek - The Move to Mohandessin - Chapter Four The Sixties? Leisure Classes - Servants - Bitaqat al-Tamwin (Ration Cards) and the Servants - Boasting Wealth - Economic Recessio - Chapter Five A New Consumer Culture - Thé Cappuccino Egyptianized - Baladi Qahwas (Popular Coffee Houses) in Malls - Resorts - Orascom - Eating Out (McDonald?s in Cairo) - Differing Notions of Beauty and Consumer Culture Fashion Today - Affandiyas versus Galabeyyas - Islamic and Ethnic Chic - Shahira Mehrez?s Search for Identity through the Galabeyya - Jewellery - Arts and Crafts - Authenticity in Fashion and Folklorization - The Flowering of the Art Market - Salons and Paintings - Chapter Six - Reshaping - Cairo?s Shopping Malls the Urban - New Dating Patterns - Youth, Sexuality and New Spaces - The Official Discourse on Ashwa?iyyat (slums) Bulaq - Madinat Nasr (Nasr City) - Nasr City: The Army and Malls - How to Spend Time in Polluted Cairo - Popular Versus "Chic" Malls - Economic Recession and the Future of Consumerism - Conclusion ISBN 9789774160448