The description of public space usually hinges on two narratives of publicness: one narrative criticizes the State’s attempts to condition publicness on the basis of functionality, and the other denotes publicness with space that can be appropriated by ordinary people. However, there are no “pure” moments in which either narrative is neatly differentiated since they are simultaneously active, or fuzzy, in situations of everyday life. Exploring this fuzziness, we propose a visibility framework for studying the physical and social embodiment of publicness as a lived experience. The framework employs socio-spatial distance as a variable for interpreting the emergence of situations that promote urban justice. Based on visual ethnography in public spaces in Cairo and Alexandria, the framework allows us to interpret the multi-valence and uncertainty characterizing the fuzzy side of publicness. The article concludes with reflections on the tense interface of control and self-organization that animates the dynamics of street politics.

对公共空间的描述通常取决于两种对公共性的叙述：一种叙述批评国家基于功能性限制公共性的企图，另一种则说明具有普通人可以使用的空间的公共性。但是，没有“纯粹的”时刻，因为叙事同时活跃，所以叙事没有明显的区别，也没有模糊的时刻。，在日常生活中。探索这种模糊性，我们提出了一个可见性框架，用于研究公众作为生活经历的物质和社会体现。该框架采用社会空间距离作为变量来解释促进城市正义的情况的出现。基于开罗和亚历山大公共场所的视觉民族志，该框架使我们能够解释表征模糊性的多价和不确定性。文章最后对控制和自我组织的紧张界面进行了思考，这使街头政治的动态充满生气。