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Negotiating Power for Public-Making in Downtown Cairo BEYOND PUBLIC SPACE NEGOTIATING POWER FOR PUBLIC-MAKING IN DOWNTOWN CAIRO Sara Abdelaal BEYOND PUBLIC SPACE: NEGOTIATING POWER FOR PUBLIC-MAKING IN DOWNTOWN CAIRO at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technischen Universität Darmstadt submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doktors der Ingenieurwissenschaften (Dr.-Ing) Doctoral thesis by M.Sc. Sara Abdelaal URBANgrad (Graduate School of Urban Studies) Supervised by First assessor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Annette Rudolph-Cleff | Technical University Darmstadt Second assessor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Constanze Petrow | Hochschule Geisenheim University Darmstadt 2021 Abdelaal, Sara: BEYOND PUBLIC SPACE: NEGOTIATING POWER FOR PUBLIC-MAKING IN DOWNTOWN CAIRO Darmstadt, Technische Universität Darmstadt, J r r V r ntl un r ss rt t on u TUpr nts: 2021 URN: urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-189480 URI: https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/18948 Tag der Einreichung: 04.03.2021 Tag der Mündlichen Prüfung: 02.06. 2021 Titelbild: Foto des Autors, Downtown Cairo, 11.2016 V r ntl t unt r -NC-ND: Attribution- Non Commercial- No Derivatives 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ This thesis contains no material which has been accepted for the award of any other degree or diploma in any institution and to the best of my knowledge and belief, the research contains no material previously published or written by another person, except where due reference has been made in the text of the thesis. Verfassererklärung: Hiermit versichere ich an Eides statt, dass ich die vorliegende Arbeit selbstständig und nur unter Verwendung der angegebenen Quellen angefertigt habe. Alle wörtlichen und sinngemäßen Entlehnungen sind unter Angabe der Quelle kenntlich gemacht. Die Arbeit wurde bisher weder im In- noch im Ausland in gleicher oder ähnlicher Form einer anderen Prüfungsbehorde vorgelegt. Alle Original-Interview-Protokolle befinden sich im Besitz des Autors M.Sc Sara Abdelaal Darmstadt 2021 Page | iii ACKNOWLEDGMENT I wish to thank all the people whose assistance was a milestone in the completion of this project. Neither the research nor the analysis would have been realized without the help of several people. My deepest gratitude goes to my Ph.D advisors, Professor Annette Rudolph-Cleff and Professor Constanze Petrow, for their invaluable help in organizing my thoughts and for their efforts in narrowing the scope of my research and keeping me on the right track. I would like to pay my special regards for all the people I have interviewed in Cairo, during the fieldwork particularly the curators of the initiatives in Downtown Cairo for taking the time to meet me and for the in-depth discussions and sharing their ideas and experience with me. Special thanks to my Ph.D colleagues at the faculty of Architecture, not only for sharing their academic thoughts and work and countless fruitful discussions, but also for keeping this journey informative and joyful and sharing their experience through other academic activities. I am indebted to all my friends and family, for supporting me. I am particularly grateful for my mother, father and sister, who are always there for me and taught me, that perseverance is the key to success. My thanks are also extended to the whole staff of the URBANgrad and the faculty of Architecture in TU Darmstadt for supporting us through our Ph.D. and helping us, whenever needed. Page | iv ABSTRACT Since the Egyptian revolution in 2011, two main processes have attracted attention in urban research. The first could be observed in the ways conventional public spaces, e.g. main squares, were temporarily used for protests and art performances. In this regard, academic literature was rather limited to the temporal reclamation of Tahrir square and the surrounding streets. The emergence of new urban practices in Cairo, instigated by the revolution, led to a second stream of debates that focused on Cairo post-2011. This invited different readings on the new ways of social engagement to revolutionize urban space production in Cairo post-2011. Despite the variety and enriching dialogs these studies offer, yet, the reading of this emerging phenomenon in Cairo is premised on a rather inflexible conceptualization of public space. Cases in the context of Cairo, offer the poss b l ty o n to b t s on ‗t r t to t ty‘ n ‗r l m n publ sp ‘, by expanding the concept of public space beyond conventional views, towards an understanding of it as a process; intrinsically contingent to the context of its production. Thus, this research focuses on how the revolution was a catalyst, whereby a new mode of practice is influencing the production of publicness in urban space. Here, the concept of public space has a limited adherence to the conventional divide between public and private, for it obliterates the intricacy of these concepts, not only from a feminist point of view but also with regard to the Arab/Muslim context. The aim of this research is to explore how young middle class-led initiatives in Cairo make use of the potential attributes of space, both human and non-human (Latour, B. 2005), for various ways of public-making (Iveson, K. 2007), thus providing an in-depth understanding of how power of space is differently negotiated by various publics in Downtown Cairo. KEY WORDS Public space; Public-making; negotiating power relationship; urban activism; process- based interventions; spatiality of publicness Page | v Zusammenfassung Seit der Ägyptischen Revolution im 2011 haben zwei Hauptprozesse in der Stadtforschung Aufmerksamkeit erregt. Die erste könnte in der Art und Weise beobachtet werden, wie konventionelle öffentliche Räume, z.B. Hauptplätze, wurden zeitweise für Proteste und Kunstaufführungen genutzt. In dieser Hinsicht beschränkte sich die akademische Literatur eher auf die zeitliche Rekultivierung des Tahrir-Platzes und der umliegenden Straßen. Das Aufkommen neuer urbaner Praktiken in Kairo, ausgelöst durch die Revolution, führte zu einem zweiten Strom von Debatten, der sich auf Kairo nach 2011 konzentrierte. Dies lud zu verschiedenen Lesungen über die neuen Wege des sozialen Engagements ein, die urbane Raumproduktion in Kairo nach 2011 zu revolutionieren. Trotz der Vielfalt und der bereichernden Dialoge, die diese Studien bieten, basiert die Lektüre dieses in Kairo aufkommenden Phänomens jedoch auf einer eher unflexiblen Konzeptualisierung des öffentlichen Raums. Fälle im Kontext von Kairo bieten die Möglichkeit, Debatten über das „Recht auf Stadt― und die „Rückeroberung des öffentlichen Raums― zu ergänzen, indem der Begriff des öffentlichen Raums über konventionelle Sichtweisen hinaus auf ein Prozessverständnis erweitert wird; intrinsisch abhängig vom Kontext seiner Produktion. Daher konzentriert sich diese Forschung darauf, wie die Revolution ein Katalysator war, wodurch eine neue Praxis die Produktion von Öffentlichkeit im urbanen Raum beeinflusst. Das Konzept des öffentlichen Raums hält sich hier nur begrenzt an die konventionelle Trennung zwischen öffentlich und privat, da es die Komplexität dieser Konzepte nicht nur aus feministischer Sicht, sondern auch im Hinblick auf den arabisch- muslimischen Kontext auslöscht. Das Ziel dieser Forschung ist es zu untersuchen, wie junge, von der Mittelschicht geführte Initiativen in Kairo die potenziellen Attribute des menschlichen und nicht-menschlichen Raums (Latour, B. 2005) für verschiedene Wege der öffentlichen Gestaltung nutzen (Iveson, K. 2007) und liefert damit ein tiefes Verständnis dafür, wie die Macht des Raumes von verschiedenen Öffentlichkeiten in Downtown Kairo unterschiedlich ausgehandelt wird. SCHLÜSSELWÖRTER Öffentlicher Raum; Öffentlichkeitsarbeit; Verhandlungsmachtverhältnis; städtischer Aktivismus; prozessbasierte Interventionen; Räumlichkeit der Öffentlichkeit Page | vi Page | vii TABLE OF CONTENT 1. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................ 1 1.1 Motivation and problem statement ..........................................................................1 1.2 Theoretical focus and Objectives .............................................................................4 1.3 Hypotheses and research questions ..........................................................................6 1.4 Methodological approach.........................................................................................7 1.4.1 Relationship between the methodological approach and the theoretical aim of this research ...................................................................9 1.5 Significance of the research ...................................................................................12 1.6 Limitation of the study ...........................................................................................12 1.7 Research structure ..................................................................................................13 2. REVIEW ON THE PREVAILING PERSPECTIVES OF PUBLIC SPACE .......... 15 2.1 Public space and the built environment .................................................................16 2.1.1 Relationship between the social and the physical dimensions ...................16 2.1.2 The Perceptual dimension..........................................................................19 2.1.3 Challenges of this perspective ...................................................................20 2.2 Public space and urban justice ...............................................................................22 2.2.1 The Dilemma of accessibility
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