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Avenues of Participation – Family, Politics, and Networks in Urban Quarters of Cairo: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics

Autor Diane Singerman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 aug 1996
Intentionally excluded from formal politics in authoritarian states by reigning elites, do the common people have concrete ways of achieving community objectives? Contrary to conventional wisdom, this book demonstrates that they do. Focusing on the political life of the sha'b (or popular classes) in Cairo, Diane Singerman shows how men and women develop creative and effective strategies to accomplish shared goals, despite the dominant forces ranged against them. Starting at the household level in one densely populated neighborhood of Cairo, Singerman examines communal patterns of allocation, distribution, and decision-making. Combining the institutional focus of political science with the sensitivities of anthropology, she uncovers a system of informal networks, supported by an informal economy, that constitutes another layer of collective institutions within Egypt and allows excluded groups to pursue their interests.
Avenues of Participation traces this informal system from its grounding in the family to its influence on the larger polity. Discussing the role of these networks in meeting fundamental needs in the community--such as earning a living, reproducing the family, saving and investing money, and coping with the bureaucracy--Singerman demonstrates the surprising power these "excluded" people wield. While the government has reduced politics to the realm of distribution to protect itself from challenges, she argues that the popular classes in Cairo, as consumers of goods and services, have turned exploiting the government into a fine art.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780691025681
ISBN-10: 0691025681
Pagini: 358
Ilustrații: 15 halftones 25 tables
Dimensiuni: 155 x 233 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Princeton University Press
Seria Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics

Locul publicării:Princeton, United States

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Focusing on the political life of the sha'b in Cairo, this book shows how men and women develop creative and effective strategies to accomplish shared goals, despite the dominant forces ranged against them. It examines communal patterns of allocation, distribution, and decision-making.