{"product_id":"physical-space-and-spatiality-in-mahbub-rashid-9780472132508","title":"Physical Space and Spatiality in Muslim Societies: Notes on the Social Production of Cities","description":"\u003cp\u003eMahbub Rashid embarks on a fascinating journey through urban space in all of its physical and social aspects, using the theories of Foucault, Bourdieu, Lefebvre, and others to explore how consumer capitalism, colonialism, and power disparity consciously shape cities. Using two Muslim cities as case studies, Algiers (Ottoman\/French) and Zanzibar (Ottoman\/British), Rashid shows how Western perceptions can only view Muslim cities through the lens of colonization--a lens that distorts both physical and social space. Is it possible, he asks, to find a useable urban past in a timeline broken by colonization? He concludes that political economy may be less relevant in premodern cities, that local variation is central to the understanding of power, that cities engage more actively in social reproduction than in production, that the manipulation of space is the exercise of power, that all urban space is a conscious construct and is therefore not inevitable, and that consumer capitalism is taking over everyday life. Ultimately, we reconstruct a present from a fragmented past through local struggles against the homogenizing power of abstract space.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mahbub Rashid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472132504\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472132508\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/10\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 548\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.10h x 7.10w x 1.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2022","brand":"Mahbub Rashid","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43994573504767,"sku":"9780472132508","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_06c15c4c-a280-4ef5-b828-134418198316.jpg?v=1683330956","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/physical-space-and-spatiality-in-mahbub-rashid-9780472132508","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}