Questions of cityness at the extensions: Law, discrimination and Cairo’s desert from the lens of Frantz Fanon’s urban passant
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Architecture Department
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https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206231212029
Document Type
Research Article
Publication Title
Dialogues in Human Geography
Publication Date
3-1-2025
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10.1177/20438206231212029
Abstract
This commentary engages with the rich conundrum outlined in Simone et al.'s ‘Inhabiting the Extensions’ by extending its prose with the polemics of discrimination, justice, agency and refusal at Cairo's desert extensions. As people fail to redress injustices inherited from the colonial past, haunting their future becoming, questions of cityness prevail as to how extensions re-produce hegemonic experiments albeit in new orientations. In quest of the good life, I posit the urban passant as a politics of agency and postcolonial subjectivity drawn from Frantz Fanon, which elucidates people's tactics, spirals and maneuvers when confronting traditions of the oppressed. The purpose here is to develop a situated liberatory politics from within the middle of things.
First Page
28
Last Page
32
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APA Citation
El-Husseiny, M.
(2025). Questions of cityness at the extensions: Law, discrimination and Cairo’s desert from the lens of Frantz Fanon’s urban passant. Dialogues in Human Geography, 15(1), 28–32.
https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206231212029
MLA Citation
El-Husseiny, Momen
"Questions of cityness at the extensions: Law, discrimination and Cairo’s desert from the lens of Frantz Fanon’s urban passant." Dialogues in Human Geography, vol. 15, no. 1, 2025, pp. 28–32.
https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206231212029