Introduction : space, politics, and the everyday state in Cairo
reconfiguring Cairo : new popular quarters between the local and the global
Internal governance : forms and practices of government in everyday life
Neoliberalism and the relocation of welfare
Youth, gender, and the state in Cairo : marginalized masculinities and contested spaces
The politics of security : an economy of violence and control
Postscript : collective action and the everyday state
Appendix A : the "field" and "home" : the politics of location
Appendix B : thematic outline of interview frames.