Development at Work : Postcolonial Imaginaries, Global Capitalism, and Everyday Life at a Factory in Tunisia

• Autore: Weißenfels André
• Pubblicazione: Wiesbaden : , : Springer Vieweg. in Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (322 pages)
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Geleitwort -- Acknowledgements -- Abstract -- Notes -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Setting the Scene -- 1.2 Research Question -- 1.3 Empirical, Methodological, and Theoretical Contributions -- 1.4 Structure of the Thesis -- 2 Method and Methodology -- 2.1 What Ethnography Has to Offer to Political Science -- 2.1.1 The Political -- 2.1.2 Ethnographic Sensibility -- 2.2 Finding My Topic -- 2.3 Gathering Data -- 2.3.1 Participant Observation -- 2.3.2 Interviews -- 2.3.3 Archival Work -- 2.4 Analysis -- 2.4.1 Participant Observation and the Importance of the Everyday -- 2.4.2 Discourse Analysis and Coding -- 2.5 Ambivalence, or, How Seriously I Take What People Tell Me -- 2.5.1 Agency and Discourse -- 2.5.2 Writing About Other People's Realities -- 2.6 Methodological Limits -- 2.6.1 A Suggestive Link Between Old Newspapers and Contemporary Realities at CERAT -- 2.6.2 Insufficient Sample Size for Generalizable Conclusions About Global Capitalism -- 3 Conceptual Framework: Towards a Multilayered Understanding of Development -- 3.1 What We Look at When We Research "Development" -- 3.2 Development as a Project of Postcolonial Nation-State Building -- 3.2.1 Nation-Building Projects in WANA -- 3.2.2 Same Story, Different Lenses -- 3.3 Development as an Imaginary -- 3.3.1 The Development Imaginary in WANA -- 3.3.2 Same Story, Different Lenses: -- 3.4 Development as the Unfolding of Global Capitalism -- 3.4.1 Dependency Theory -- 3.4.2 Uneven and Combined Development: Fifty Shades of Capitalism -- 3.5 What We Gain from a Development Perspective -- 4 Context: A Brief History of Tunisia's Political Economy -- 4.1 1956-1961: The First Five-Year Plan. Attempted Economic Decolonization -- 4.1.1 The Colonial Heritage -- 4.1.2 De-Colonization 1956-1961. ; 4.2 1961-1969: The First 10-Year Plan. Import Substitution Industrialization -- 4.2.1 Widening the Urban-Rural Rift -- 4.2.2 The End of Import Substitution Industrialization -- 4.3 1969-1986: The Second 10-Year Plan and Export-Oriented Development -- 4.3.1 Expanding Unevenness: Excluding the Masses from Corporatist Politics -- 4.3.2 Offshore Legislation: The Loi 72 -- 4.3.3 Results: -- 4.3.4 The Beginnings of Neoliberalism and Public Unrest -- 4.4 1986-2010: Structural Adjustment -- 4.4.1 Reforms: -- 4.4.2 Results: -- 4.5 2010-Today: A Preliminary Assessment. Further SAPs in the Context of the Post-Revolutionary Budget Crisis -- 4.6 Assessing 70 Years of Development -- 5 Analysis Part I: The State's Development Discourse -- 5.1 Development Discourse 1972 -- 5.1.1 A Continuation of the Post-independence Development Project (by Different Means) -- 5.1.2 State Planed Liberalization -- 5.1.3 The Loi 72 and Export-oriented Development -- 5.1.4 The Stakes of Development: "Promotion de l'homme" -- 5.2 Development Discourse 1986 -- 5.2.1 Crisis and Austerity -- 5.2.2 Objectives and Solutions -- 5.2.3 Struggle, Security, and National Unity -- 5.3 Comparison Between 1972 and 1986 -- 5.4 Development Discourse Post-2010/2011 -- 5.5 Why the Development Promise is not a Social Contract -- 5.5.1 What People Expect. A Development Perspective vs. the Social Contract Debate -- 5.5.2 Contract or no Contract? The Development Promise and Regime Legitimacy -- 5.5.3 Hegemony Instead of Social Contract -- 5.5.4 Taking the Superstructure Seriously -- 6 Analysis Part II: Development Imaginaries at CERAT -- 6.1 Disappointed Hopes of Progress, Meritocracy, and Middle Classness -- 6.1.1 Progress in Time -- 6.1.2 Education and the Meritocratic Promise -- 6.1.3 Entrepreneurship -- 6.1.4 Circumstances ("ẓurūf") and Missing Opportunities ("'Imkāniyyāt") -- 6.1.5 Emigration. ; 6.1.6 Middle Classness -- 6.1.7 Consumerism/Materialism -- 6.1.8 Unkept Promises -- 6.2 "Feels Like Development": Tidiness, Orderliness, Respect, Discipline, Professionalism, Security and Peace of Mind -- 6.2.1 Jaw -- 6.3 Privileged and Stuck at the Same Time -- 6.4 Why Neoliberal Policies do not (Necessarily) Create Neoliberal Subjects -- 6.4.1 Just Another Development Policy -- 6.4.2 Neoliberalism with Bureaucratic Instead of Entrepreneurial Selves -- 7 Analysis Part III: Quality, Standardization, and Bureaucracy -- 7.1 The Enterprise Bureaucracy at CERAT -- 7.2 A Working Definition of Bureaucracy -- 7.3 Facets of Bureaucracy at CERAT -- 7.3.1 QRQC Meeting -- 7.3.2 Saisies -- 7.3.3 Audits -- 7.4 ISO 9001: Measurement and Governmentality -- 7.5 The Bureaucratic Market -- 7.5.1 Governmental Effects: Productivity, Regularity, and Control from Afar -- 7.5.2 Certificates and Trust -- 7.6 How the Enterprise Bureaucracy Plays Out at CERAT -- 7.6.1 Pleasant and Exciting Bureaucracy -- 8 Conclusion -- 8.1 Development as the Unfolding of Global Capitalism -- 8.2 Development as Tunisia's Postcolonial Nation-State Project -- 8.3 Development as Personal Imaginary -- 8.4 Further Research Perspectives -- 8.5 Why We Need Development -- References.
• Titolo autorizzato: Development at Work
• ISBN: 3-658-43870-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910806194103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Politik und Gesellschaft des Nahen Ostens Series