FROM MARGINALISATION TO INJUSTICE, FROM INJUSTICE TO REVOLT: URBANITY AND CITIZENSHIP AT THE MARGINS

Version en anglais de l'article paru en italienInternational audienceAbstract - There has been a dramatic rise in the number of social uprisings in Egypt since 2000. Whilethese uprisings have of ten been repressed, they have contributed to the emergence of debates aboutthe rights to work and to housing, and more generally about social justice, an issue which became oneof the watchwords of the revolution of January 2011. The aim of this article is to analyze themovement of the rag-pickers of Cairo, who since 2003 have been opposing the neoliberal reform ofthe waste-management system which has deprived them of their work. Since then, this socially andspatially marginalized professional corporation has taken front stage and contributed to the construction of a “public problem” about waste