Description: Avenues of Participation : Family, Politics, and Networks in Urban Quarters of Cairo, Paperback by Singerman, Diane, ISBN 0691025681, ISBN-13 9780691025681, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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 shab (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 decisionmaking. Combining the institutional focus of political science with the sensitivities of anthropology she uncovers a system of informal networks that constitutes another layer of collective institutions within Egypt and allows excluded groups to pursue their interests. She documents the extensive presence of the informal economy and argues that these financial resources further enhance the informal and invisible organizational grid of the shab.
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Book Title: Avenues of Participation : Family, Politics, and Networks in Urba
Author: Singerman, Diane
Language: English
