| The Metropolitan Food System Of Cairo Ed. by Jörg Gertel |
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| Written by Said Samir | |
| Sunday, 24 July 2005 | |
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Metropolitan areas are increasingly where the fundamental problems of our global society, such as poverty and hunger, are spatially concentrated. In urban areas socio-economic contradictions get mediated, often under violent conditions. Particulary urban food security - in the past often taken for granted - is, therefore, definitely a major future challenge. The present volume on Cairo attempts to shed light on social processes, which constitute an urban food system. While the papers presented here are both based on recent empirical research and written from different disciplinary perspectives, they contribute to a more comprehensive picture of this subject. Approaching an urban food system from a social perspective — as this collection attempts to demonstrate — offers detailed knowledge about the constituting structures of policies and economies, and in this respect it also provides important insights concerning the causal structure of urban hunger. CONTENTS Preface 5 Introduction 1. Contextualizing the Social Space of Urban Food Systems 11 Jörg Gertel Food Policy and Food Supply 2. Cairo’s Municipal Food Policy: “As He Gets More, He Can Buy More” Dan Tschirgy 27 3. Farmers, Merchants and Primary Agricultural Marketing in Egypt 43 N. S. Hopkins, S. Mehanna, and B. Abdelmaksoud 4. Urban Spaces and Street Vending: Colonial and Post-Colonial 69 Structures versus Everyday Practices Petra Kuppinger 5. The “Search for Security”: Informal Street Food Vendors in Matariya 87 Joerg Gene! and Said Samir 6. Market Reality and Food Security: How “Marketing Losses” Can 103 Feed the Hungry Martina Heitkötter Food Demand and Social Reproduction 7. Gender and Food in Everyday Life. An Ethnographic Study of 125 a Neighborhood in Cairo Farha Ghannam 8. Moments of Eating: Economics, Space, and Time 141 Petra Kuppinger 9. Food, Culture and Lifestyle: A View on Urban Middle Class Households Bettina Mann 151 10. Eating Tami’a as if it were Kabab: An Egyptian Television Serials 161 Response to Economic Transformation Esther Schaufelberger References 185 |
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