Towards the Great Transformation: (8) Relocating Egypt and the West

Bob Catterall

City, 2013, vol. 17, issue 4, 570-575

Abstract: The Arab spring and the simultaneous Greek struggles and now the Turkish and Egyptian struggles of 2013 have been presented in 'the West' largely as opportunities for the 'the East' to catch up with modern, secular democratic society. But could it be the other way round? Could it be that Egypt, for example, in challenging the pieties and self-assurance of the West's positive characterization of itself has, as Nasser Abourahme claims in this issue, changed their relative positions, that the West is being in effect relocated behind Egypt? This episode in the series 'Towards the Great Transition' considers that claim in the light of that possible and long overdue transition, particularly in the context of the discussion of planetary urbanization, continuing to consider whether urban studies and the socio-spatial sciences have the tools to do justice to what is happening. In so doing it draws on another debate on this issue, on Telescopic Urbanism, as introduced by Ash Amin, and particularly as discussed by Ananya Roy with particular reference to India.

Date: 2013
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