Marginality and exclusion in Egypt [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Ray Bush and Habib Ayeb

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Zed Books, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: viii, 247 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 305.560962
• Soggetto topico: Marginality, Social - Egypt; Social isolation - Egypt
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BushRay AyebHabib
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Marginality and exclusion in Egypt and the Middle East -- Marginality: curse or cure? -- Accumulation by encroachment in the Arab Mashreq -- Marginality or abjection? The political economy of poverty production in Egypt -- The marginalization of the small peasantry: Egypt and Tunisia -- Margins and frontiers -- Transport thugs: spatial marginalization in a Cairo suburb -- Transport thugs: spatial marginalization in a Cairo suburb -- Against marginalization: workers, youth and class in the 25 January revolution -- Against marginalization: workers, youth and class in the 25 January revolution -- Working with street kids: unsettling accounts from the field -- Marginalization and self-marginalization: commercial education and its graduates -- Disability in transition in Egypt: between marginalization and rights
• Sommario/riassunto: What does it mean to be marginalized? Is it a passive condition that the disadvantaged simply have to endure? Or is it a manufactured label, reproduced and by its nature transitory? In the wake of the new uprising in Egypt, this insightful collection explores issues of power, politics and inequality in Egypt and the Middle East. It argues that the notion of marginality tends to mask the true power relations that perpetuate poverty and exclusion. It is these dynamic processes of political and economic transformation that need explanation. The book provides a revealing analysis of key areas of Egyptian political economy, such as labour, urbanization and the creation of slums, disability, refugees, street children, and agrarian livelihoods, reaching the impactful conclusion that marginalization does not mean total exclusion. What is marginalized can be called upon to play a dynamic part in the future -- as is the case with the revolution that toppled President Mubarak.
• Titolo autorizzato: Marginality and exclusion in Egypt
• ISBN: 1-78032-676-9; 1-280-76918-1; 9786613679956; 1-78032-086-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462022903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II