Everyday Economic Practices: The 'Hidden Transcripts' of Egyptian Voices

by Chowdhury; Savvina

• ISBN13: 9780415955522
• ISBN10: 0415955521
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book brings to the forefront the significance of local everyday economic practices to development policymaking. Chowdhury's objective in unearthing these diverse activities is two-fold. She demonstrates why it is a misrepresentation to characterize all that is economic as capitalism. Additionally, she contends that in those instances of rupture where local economic practices break into dominant narratives of the economy, we catch a glimpse of what James Scott has referred to as the hidden transcripts of alternative epistemologies. Chowdhury argues that the normative content of these other epistemological frameworks provide us with alternative ways to conceptualize economic development as something other than industrialization, urbanization and environmental degradation as experienced by the West.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. ix
List of Figures	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction: Two Objectives	p. 1
Problematizing Participation	p. 17
Is Participatory Research Development's Postmodern Turn?	p. 43
The Political Economy of Participation in Egypt	p. 67
Planning Luxor: Resistance, Contestation and Rupture in Upper Egypt	p. 87
Revisiting Rotating Savings and Credit Associations	p. 121
Conclusion	p. 141
Notes	p. 143
Bibliography	p. 163
Index	p. 175
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