Avenues of Participation : : Family, Politics, and Networks in Urban Quarters of Cairo / / Diane Singerman.
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 classe...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©1996 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (358 p.) :; 15 halftones 25 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF TABLES
- FOREWORD
- ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- A NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1 The Family, Politics, and the Familial Ethos
- CHAPTER 2 Reproducing the Family
- CHAPTER 3 Networks: The Political Lifeline of Community
- CHAPTER 4 Informality: Politics and Economics in Tandem
- CHAPTER 5 Politics as Distribution
- CONCLUSIONS
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX