Directions of change in rural Egypt /
This volume based on recent fieldwork by distinguished specialists includes information on the changing economic situation in the countryside, particularly after the 'owners and tenants' law of 1992.
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2001
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Halftitle Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Weights and Measures; Abbreviations; Introduction: Directions of Change in Rural Egypt Nicholas Hopkins and Kirsten Westergaard; I. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF RURAL EGYPT; 1. The Market's Place Timothy Mitchell; 2. The Evolution of Agrarian Structures in Egypt: Regional Patterns of Change in Farm Size Francois Ireton; 3. Beating Plowshares into Swords: The Relocation of Rural Egyptian Workers and their Discontent James Toth
- 4. Facing Structural Adjustment: Strategies of Peasants, the State, and the International Financial Institutions Ray BushII. CULTURAL REPRESENTATION: IDENTITY; 5. Hegemony in the Periphery: Community and Exclusion in an Upper Egyptian Village Reem Saad; 6. The Northwest Coast: A Part of Rural Egypt? Soraya Altorki and Donald P. Cole; III. CULTURAL REPRESENTATION: CONSUMPTION; 7. Television and the Virtues of Education: Upper Egyptian Encounters with State Culture Lila Abu-Lughod; 8. Conflict or Cooperation: Changing Gender Roles in Rural Egyptian Households Kamran Asdar Ali
- 9. The Vision of a Better Life: New Patterns of Consumption and Changed Social Relations Kirsten Haugaard BachIV. HEALTH; 10. Being Sickly or Eating Well: The Conceptualization of Health and Ill-Health in an Upper Egyptian Village Hania Sholkamy; 11. Health Units in Rural Egypt: At the Forefront of Health Improvement or Anachronisms? Sohair Mehanna and Peter Winch; V. VILLAGE HISTORIES; 12. Change and Continuity in the Village of Batra: Family Strategies Malak S. Rouchdy; 13. Spaces of Poverty: The Geography of Social Change in Rural Egypt Detlef Miiller-Mahn
- VI. DEVELOPMENT: THE ROLE OF THE MARKET AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS14. Farmers and Cooperatives in the Era of Structural Adjustment Mohamed H. Abdel Aal; 15. Rural Periodic Markets in Egypt Mohamed M. Mohieddin; 16. Agro-Pastoralism and Development in Egypt's Northwest Coast Donald P. Cole and Soraya Altorki; 17. Economic Changes in the Newly Reclaimed Lands: From State Farms to Small Holdings and Private Agricultural Enterprises Giinter Meyer; VII. DISPUTE SETTLEMENT: SOCIETY AND POLITICS
- 18. Men of Authority-Documents of Authority: Notes on Customary Law in Upper Egypt Hans-Christian Korsholm Nielsen19. Culture and Mediation of Power in an Egyptian Village Ahmed Zayed; Contributors; Index; Back Cover
