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As a result, the vast majority of Cairo’s people have been forcibly deprived of their social rights, social goods, and educational capital.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEschewing the traditional focus on top-down regime and state security, the contributors to this volume, who represent a wide array of academics, activists, artists, and journalists, explore how repressive policies affect the everyday lives of citizens. They show the ways in which urban security crises are politically fashioned and do not emanate from the urban social fabric on their own: city crime, violence, and fear are created by specific means of extraction, production, and control.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnother kind of city can live again. But how? 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