"Where life comes together", the imagined meanings of lived geographies, a case study of two gated communities in the greater cairo region, egypt
This essay concerns the imagined meanings of life in relation to Mivida and Al Rehab, two gated communities in the Greater Cairo Region, Egypt. It is based on promotional material and interviews conducted with relevant actors. It discusses, through a Gramscian-Foucauldian approach, how hegemonic narratives of life and the urban constitute privatized lived geographies, where the neoliberal subject
