Turning the City Inside-Out?

Asef Bayat. 2012. “Politics in the City-Inside-Out” City and Society 24, 2:110–128. In cities such as Beirut and Cairo, the quiet everyday ways that poor people reappropriate space from the rich in the Middle East creates a new version of urban public space that Asef Bayat terms the “city-inside-out.” This new version of urban public […]