Title Markets of dispossession : NGOs, economic development, and the state in Cairo / Julia Elyachar

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 279 pages) Series Politics, history, and culture Politics, history, and culture. e-Duke books scholarly collection. Contents A note on transliteration -- 1. Introduction: The Power of Invisible Hands -- 2. A Home for Markets: Two Neighborhoods in Plan and Practice, 1905-1996 -- 3. Mappings of Power: Informal Economy and Hybrid States -- 4. Mastery, Power, and Model Workshop Markets -- 5. Value, the Evil Eye, and Economic Subjectivities -- 6. NGOs, Business, and Social Capital -- 7. Empowering Debt -- Conclusion: The Free Market and the Invisible Spectator Summary "What happens when the market tries to help the poor? In many parts of the world today, neoliberal development programs are offering ordinary people the tools of free enterprise as the means to well-being and empowerment. Schemes to transform the poor into small-scale entrepreneurs promise them the benefits of the market and access to the rewards of globalization. Markets of Dispossession is a theoretically sophisticated and sobering account of the consequences of these initiatives. 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" -- Publisher's website A case study of economic development in Cairo that sheds light on issues of agency and empowerment in the age of neoliberal globalization Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL SUBJECT al- Markaz al-ʿArabī li-d-Dirāsāt Kairo gnd Subject Urban poor -- Egypt -- Cairo Entrepreneurship -- Egypt -- Cairo Social networks -- Egypt -- Cairo Business networks -- Egypt -- Cairo New business enterprises -- Egypt -- Cairo Non-governmental organizations -- Egypt -- Cairo BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic Conditions. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Comparative. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Economic Development. Business networks Economic history Entrepreneurship New business enterprises Non-governmental organizations Social networks Urban poor Armut Nichtstaatliche Organisation Stadtbevölkerung Wirtschaftliche Lage 83.30 economic conditions, development and structure: general. Entrepreneurship. Small firm. Poor (persons) Non-governmental organisations. microenterprise. entrepreneurship. economic implication. urban area. informal economy. social capital. state intervention. nongovernmental organization. role of World Bank. ILO mentioned. Poor -- Egypt -- Cairo. Entrepreneurship -- Egypt -- Cairo. Social networks -- Egypt -- Cairo. Business networks -- Egypt -- Cairo. New business enterprises -- Egypt -- Cairo. Non-governmental organizations -- Egypt -- Cairo. microentreprise. esprit d'entreprise. conséquences économiques. zone urbaine. économie informelle. capital social. intervention de l'Etat. organisation non gouvernementale. rôle de la Banque mondiale. OIT mentionné microempresa. capacidad empresarial. consecuencias económicas. zona urbana. economía informal. capital social. intervención estatal. organización no gubernamental. papel del Banco Mundial. mención de la OIT. SUBJECT Cairo (Egypt) -- Economic conditions Subject Egypt -- Cairo Kairo Cairo. Egypt. Cairo (Egypt) -- Economic conditions. Egypte. Egipto. Form Electronic book LC no. 2005009916 ISBN 9780822387138 0822387131 9781283022040 1283022044 9786613022042 6613022047 0822335832 9780822335832

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