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The Giza Zoo : Re-Appropriating Public Spaces, Re-Imagining Urban Beauty

Chapitre/contribution.

Vincent Battesti

Traduction possible du titre : Le zoo de Gizeh : Se réapproprier des espaces publics, réinventer une esthétique urbaine

 Titre original : The Giza Zoo : Re-Appropriating Public Spaces, Re-Imagining Urban Beauty,
in Amar P. and Singerman D. (eds), Cairo Cosmopolitan : Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Globalized Middle East, The American University in Cairo Press (2006), ill., p. 489-511.
ISBN : 9774249283 — 978-9774249280
DOI : 10.5743/cairo/9789774162893.003.0019
Fichier pdf : https://hal.science/halshs-00106861

 Voir les détails sur cet ouvrage sur le site web de l’American University in Cairo Press.

 Premier paragraphe du chapitre (en anglais) :

The crowd is dense, circulating around the exhibits, eddying between the monkey cages and the barriers that protect the patches of lawn. It is the second day of post-Ramadan holidays at the Giza Zoo. Hundreds of picnicking families and romantic couples get up from off lawn that is technically “closed to the public.” Using a thick black hose, a zoo gardener inundates the area with a spray of water. “Move out ! Stay outside !” But hardly has he turned his back to pick up some trash, when visitors again cross the border of this little island of green, walking with precaution toward the center of what is now a marsh in the middle of which rises a floral composition of palms and cement. Among the adventurers, two young couples : the boys are carrying cameras, and the two girls wearing head-scarves pick up their long skirts a little in order not to spot them with mud. Together, the two girls pause in front of the palms, but this is only the preliminary to a more studied pose. The competing adolescents are already monopolizing a useful part of the decor (the trunk of a dead tree) : “Give me my dark glasses for the photo !” One of the couples decides to pose farther away, where the sunlight of the end of the day pierces some foliage. The boy and the girl lean symmetrically on one of the park’s floral lamps ; the plants form the backdrop. The girl readjusts her blouse, smooths down her dress, straightens the pleats of her skirt and, finally, immobile, both of them look straight ahead at the camera lens. A little ill at ease, the boy only brightens his expression at the instant of the flash. The girl, gently smiling, seems defiant. Following the flash, the pose is kept a few seconds too long. Then all seem relieved.

 Télécharger l’article (en anglais) au format pdf :

The Giza Zoo
Re-Appropriating Public Spaces, Re-Imagining Urban Beauty (Cairo Cosmopolitan, 2006, AUC Press)

Giza Zoo, Cairo. 2nd Sept., 2005.

 Voir une critique de l’ouvrage sur Al-Ahram Weekly, hebdomadaire en anglais édité au Caire :

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/802...

 Voir une autre critique sur le blog avantcaire :

http://www.avantcaire.com/2008/11/1...

Official map of the Giza zoo

Juste dire que le titre du chapitre était au début : Les classes populaires et espaces publics : le zoo de Gizeh (Popular Classes and Publics Spaces : the Giza Zoo),
Puis les éditeurs scientifiques le changèrent en : Le zoo de Gizeh et la survie d’espaces populaires alternatifs et de modes de consommation (The Giza Zoo and the Survival of Alternative Popular Spaces and Modes of Consumption),
Et maintenant en : Le zoo de Gizeh : Se réapproprier des espaces publics, réinventer une esthétique urbaine (The Giza Zoo : Re-Appropriating Public Spaces, Re-Imagining Urban Beauty).

 Cairo Cosmopolitan : Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Globalized Middle East
Sommaire de l’ouvrage

Contributors xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction : Contesting Myths, Critiquing Cosmopolitanism, and Creating the New Cairo School of Urban Studies Diane Singerman, and Paul Amar 1
Cairo : The City Cosmopolitan
1 Cairo as Neo-Liberal Capital ? From Walled City to Gated Communities Eric Denis 47
2 Cairo as Capital of Socialist Revolution ? Omnia El Shakry 73
3 Cairo as Regional/Global Economic Capital ? Leila Vignal, and Eric Denis 99
4 Cairo as Global/Regional Cultural Capital ? Said Sadek 153
Cairo Consumer and Investor Geographies
5 Egyptianizing the American Dream : Nasr City’s Shopping Malls, Public Order, and the Privatized Military Mona Abaza 193
6 Cafe Latte and Caesar Salad : Cosmopolitan Belonging in Cairo’s Coffee Shops Anouk de Koning 221
7 From Dubai to Cairo : Competing Global Cities, Models, and Shifting Centers of Influence ? Yasser Elsheshtawy 235
8 Keeping Him Connected : Globalization and the Production of Locality in Cairo Farha Ghannam 251
Cairo Heritage and Touristic Globalization
9 Reconstructing Islamic Cairo : Forces at Work Caroline Williams 269
10 Urban Transformations : Social Control at al-Rifai Mosque and Sultan Hasan Square{   Yasser Elsheshtawy} |295 | |  11 |  Pyramids and Alleys: Global Dynamics and Local Strategies in Giza{   Petra Kuppinger} |313 | |  12 |  Belle-epoque Cairo: The Politics of Refurbishing the Downtown Business District{   Galila El Kadi, and Dalila ElKerdany} |345 | | |{{Cairo Subcultures and Media Contestation}} | | |  13 |  Upper Egyptian Regionally Based Communities in Cairo: Traditional or Modern Forms of Urbanization?{   Catherine Miller} |375 | |  14 |  Place, Class, and Race in the Barabra Cafe: Nubians in Egyptian Media{   Elizabeth A. Smith} |399 | |  15 |  When the Lights Go Down in Cairo: Cinema as Global Crossroads and Space of Playful Resistance{   Walter Armbrust} |415 | |  16 |  A Round Trip to Ismailiya : Cairo’s Media Exiles, Television Innovation, and Provincial Citizenship Fanny Colonna 445
Cairo Celebratory Spaces and Vernacular World-Crossing
17 Mulids of Cairo : Sufi Guilds, Popular Celebrations, and the ’Roller-Coaster Landscape’ of the Resignified City Anna Madœuf 465
18 The Giza Zoo : Reappropriating Public Spaces, Reimagining Urban Beauty Vincent Battesti 489
19 Egypt’s Pop-Music Clashes and the ’World-Crossing’ Destinies of Muhammad ’Ali Street Musicians Nicolas Puig 513
Afterword : Whose Cairo ? Nezar AlSayyad 539
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