Description: Further DetailsTitle: Avenues of ParticipationCondition: NewFormat: PaperbackSubtitle: Family, Politics, and Networks in Urban Quarters of CairoISBN-10: 0691025681EAN: 9780691025681ISBN: 9780691025681Publisher: Princeton University PressRelease Date: 08/11/1996Description: Intentionally excluded from formal politics in authoritarian states by reigning elites, do the common people have concrete ways of achieving community objectives? Contrary to conventional wisdom, this book demonstrates that they do. Focusing on the political life of the sha'b (or popular classes) in Cairo, Diane Singerman shows how men and women develop creative and effective strategies to accomplish shared goals, despite the dominant forces ranged against them. Starting at the household level in one densely populated neighborhood of Cairo, Singerman examines communal patterns of allocation, distribution, and decision-making. Combining the institutional focus of political science with the sensitivities of anthropology, she uncovers a system of informal networks, supported by an informal economy, that constitutes another layer of collective institutions within Egypt and allows excluded groups to pursue their interests. Avenues of Participation traces this informal system from its grounding in the family to its influence on the larger polity.Discussing the role of these networks in meeting fundamental needs in the community--such as earning a living, reproducing the family, saving and investing money, and coping with the bureaucracy--Singerman demonstrates the surprising power these "excluded" people wield. While the government has reduced politics to the realm of distribution to protect itself from challenges, she argues that the popular classes in Cairo, as consumers of goods and services, have turned exploiting the government into a fine art.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 254mmItem Length: 197mmItem Weight: 539gAuthor: Diane SingermanGenre: Society & CultureBook Series: Princeton Studies in Muslim PoliticsTopic: Social Sciences, Law & PoliticsType: Communication StudiesRelease Year: 1996 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Avenues of Participation
Title: Avenues of Participation
Subtitle: Family, Politics, and Networks in Urban Quarters of Cairo
ISBN-10: 0691025681
EAN: 9780691025681
ISBN: 9780691025681
Release Date: 08/11/1996
Release Year: 1996
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Law & Politics
Number of Pages: 358 Pages
Publication Name: Avenues of Participation : Family, Politics, and Networks in Urban Quarters of Cairo
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Subject: Political Process / General, Sociology / General, Economics / General, Women's Studies, Customs & Traditions, Sociology / Marriage & Family
Publication Year: 1996
Item Height: 1.1 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 19 Oz
Author: Diane Singerman
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics
Series: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics Ser.
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
