... upon numerical reasoning driven by discourses of financial calculations of value and potential risks within the emerging urban real-estate market. The article contends that the regulations surrounding the housing speculation during the 1920s were an early bureaucratic exercise in rationalizing...

... in the growth of a veritable library of want: meat eating was essential “to the health and sanitary reports, acts for the regulation or removal strength of the British Islanders,” and “without the of slaughter from urban areas, and the establish- roast or the boil, ‘John Bull’ would soon become ment...

... number of vehicles on the road and consequent congestion were the result, and apparently also the driving force, of politics at every level: from class and gender to geopolitics. In particular, the adoption of the car during the infitah was informed by a discourse of demographic and urban crisis...

... of the contemporaneous emergence of human violence and affection toward dogs. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 dogs Egypt Ottoman Empire interspecies relations urban regulation Earlier versions of portions of this article appear in Alan Mikhail, The Animal in Ottoman Egypt (Oxford University...

... urban environment, for the empire’s rapid expansion was the attrac- along with city regulations, galvanized the rhetori- tiveness of Istanbul’s growing service sector. The cal discourse of public good, security, and order social and cultural changes in Istanbul...

... . Speculation as an analytic lens to view the early twentieth-century urban form in the British Raj reveals how the so-called speculators, landowners, and bureaucrats understood the act of speculation and sought to either facilitate or regulate it and how that in turn transformed the city. Speculation...

... University Press , 2009 . Bolt Maxim . “Waged Entrepreneurs, Policed Informality: Work, the Regulation of Space, and the Economy of the Zimbabwean–South Africa Border.” Africa 82 , no. 1 ( 2012 ): 111 – 30 . Callon Michel . “Introduction: The Embeddedness of Economic Markets...

... Mali during the political liberalization of the 1990s, 8 the intersection of Sufi urbanism and municipal regulation reveals a sensorial history of laïcité that exists alongside the intellectual history of Senegalese secularism represented by figures like Senghor and Dia, with poetry providing...

... regulation in producing stigmatized space, and then to the work of objects, materials, and manual labor in animating space and bringing it (back) to life. The section “Climate Catastrophe” explores a set of terms—prediction, uncertainty, and air—at the junctures of climate, urbanization...

... that regulated interactions between the living and the dead, and devising and financing the physical, social, and cultural provisions of newly emerging urban necrogeography. In manners akin to biopower and biopolitics, necropower and necropolitics, concepts developed in the context of modern history, lend...

...Rohit Negi Abstract With toxic air emerging as one of the biggest risks facing urban residents globally, alongside the possibilities of designing “domes” of purified atmospheres, air has lately emerged as a productive object of critical urban inquiry. This essay delves into the manner in which air...

... politics more generally in postwar urban Angola. First, it shows how these are shaped by the complex relationships between government officials and citizens. While officially governed by laws and regulations, in daily life these relations are determined by informal rules and arrangements...

... According to David Harvey, while most large common in the second half of the nineteenth cen- cities were going through new administrative, legis- tury, when shockwaves of tremendous change were lative, and municipal reforms, people experienced moving through the air. Not only during Rama- the urban...

... of and the devaluation of the Egyptian pound in early the peasantry and the urban poor. The film’s protago- 2003 have made it clear that even after 12 years of IMF nist, I argue, represents this elite. This class, allied with regulated “bitter pills” the Egyptian people continue to the state in most circumstances...

...Mehran Kamrava Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2003 The Politics of Weak Control: State Capacity and Economic Semi-Formality in the Middle East Mehran Kamrava After years of mystification and theoretical overemphasis regulated by the state. However...

... of not alone in regarding the plague as punishment for the urban regulations, for instance, specified a com- past sins5’ mitment to hygiene (hifi-i sihhuh) and “the estab- In 1877, although the minister of public instruc- lishment of pharmacies and the like...

... in the Turkish public domain during the Democrat Party (Demokrat Parti, DP) era of the 1950s, a new strand of Islamic conservatism slowly became visible in Turkey, and many have seen this development particularly in the Turkish urban settlements...

...Kyle T. Evered “Wicked” Istanbul: The Regulation of Prostitution in the Early Turkish Republic Wyers Mark David Istanbul : Libra Kitap , 2012 312 pp., 35,00 TL (cloth) © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 BOOK REVIEWS The Nation Writ Small...

... full sovereign power over their citizens. Because most colonial states did not make any effort to extend administrative presence much beyond urban populations as well as a few sites of natural resource extraction, it is argued, their ability to control and administer territories and populations...

... that the hakimas (doctresses) who emerged from state-­run medical schools were the “Wicked” Istanbul: equivalents of male doctors. She illustrates that women, The Regulation of Prostitution in the like men, derived status from their expertise. Hakimas Early...