Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction Two Objectives; Chapter One Problematizing Participation; Chapter Two Is Participatory Research Development's Postmodern Turn?; Chapter Three The Political Economy of Participation in Egypt; Chapter Four Planning Luxor: Resistance, Contestation and Rupture in Upper Egypt; Chapter Five Revisiting Rotating Savings and Credit Association; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Exploring the significance of local everyday economic practices to development policy-making, this book demonstrates why it is a misrepresentation to characterize all that is economic as?capitalism? and offers alternative ways to conceptualize economic developments rather than just as the€industrialization, urbanization and environmental degradation as experienced by the West
