Markets of Dispossession - 9780822335719
Un libro in lingua di Julia Elyachar Adams Julia (EDT) Steinmetz George (EDT) edito da Duke Univ Pr, 2005
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Julia Elyachar studied the efforts of bankers, social scientists, ngo members, development workers, and state officials to turn the craftsmen and unemployed youth of Cairo into the vanguard of a new market society based on microenterprise. She considers these efforts in relation to the alternative notions of economic success held by craftsmen in Cairo, in which short-term financial profit is not always highly valued. Through her careful ethnography of workshop life, Elyachar explains how the traditional market practices of craftsmen are among the most vibrant modes of market life in Egypt. Long condemned as backward, these existing market practices have been seized on by social scientists and development institutions as the raw materials for experiments in “free market” expansion. Elyachar argues that the new economic value accorded to the cultural resources and social networks of the poor has fueled a broader process leading to their economic, social, and cultural dispossession.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Markets of Dispossession
- Sottotitolo: Ngos, Economic Development, And the State in Cairo
- Lingua: English
- Autori : Julia Elyachar Adams Julia (EDT) Steinmetz George (EDT)
- Editore: Duke Univ Pr
- Collana: Duke Univ Pr (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 30 Novembre '05
- Genere: SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Argomenti : Poor Egypt Cairo Entrepreneurship Egypt Cairo Social networks Egypt Cairo
- Pagine: 288
- Dimensioni mm: 222 x 152 x 19
- ISBN-10: 0822335719
- EAN-13: 9780822335719