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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 116–130.
Published: 01 May 2019
... that it was meant to solve yet actually aggravated. Contrasting the private car to the public bus—and stressing zahma , population control, and regulation of sexuality—brought to the fore gendered aspects of automobility and especially sexual harassment rather than issues such as energy efficiency, traffic...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 111–115.
Published: 01 May 2019
... into the jammed traffic and jammed politics of Egypt under Sadat (1970–81). He draws on a rich range of sources to show how the problem of zahma or “crowdedness” became a site both for the negotiation of Egyptian demographic policy and for the gendered politics of everyday urban and suburban life after Nasser...
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