Beschreibung:
Savinna Chowdhury
Exploring the significance of local everyday economic practices to development policy-making, this book demonstrates why it is a misrepresentation to characterize all that is economic as `capitalism¿ and offers alternative ways to conceptualize economic developments rather than just as the industrialization, urbanization and environmental degradation as experienced by the West.
Introduction: Two Objectives 1.Problematizing Participation 2. Is Participatory Research Development¿s Postmodern Turn? 3. The Political Economy of Participation in Egypt 4. Planning Luxor: Resistance, Contestation and Rupture in Upper Egypt 5. Revisiting Rotating Savings and Credit Associations