| 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. Dr. Jörg Gertel Verlag für Entwickungspolitik Saarbrücken 1995 ISBN 3-88156-677-5 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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