TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hopkins,Nicholas S.
AU  - Westergaard,Kirsten
TI  - Directions of change in rural Egypt
SN  - 9774244834
AV  - HN786.A8 D576  1998
U1  - 307.140962  21
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Cairo
PB  - American University in Cairo Press
KW  - Rural development
KW  - Egypt
KW  - Rural conditions
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - 1952-
KW  - Social conditions
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The political econmy of rural egypt -- cultural representations : Identify -- cultural representations : consumption -- health -- village histories -- development : the role of the market and development projects -- dispute statement : society and politics
N2  - This volume based on recent fieldwork by distinguished specialists includes information on the changing economic situation in the countryside, particularly after the 'owners and tenants' law of 1992. Along with the effects of structural adjustment on agriculture, marketing, and rural life, several chapters address the declining trend of rural Egyptians to emigrate. Other chapters examine changes in consumption patterns and health, various rural social processes and the 'new lands' being reclaimed in Egypt's desert areas, representations of the rural population in the media and in statistics, and their own changing self-image.
What emerges is a picture of a rural Egypt that is full of life, dramatically evolving, and treading a delicate line between progress and impoverishment. Although nothing is typical of rural Egypt, these papers provide a revealing account of the struggles and rewards that characterize the Egyptian countryside today.
Contributors: Mohamed Hassan Abdel Aal, Lila Abu-Lughod, Soraya Altorki, Kamran Asdar Ali, Kirsten Haugaard Bach, Ray Bush, Donald Cole, Nicholas Hopkins, François Ireton, Sohair Mehanna, Gnter Meyer, Timothy Mitchell, Mohamed M. Mohieddin, Detlef Mller-Mahn, Hans-Christian Korsholm Nielsen, Malak Rouchdy, Reem Saad, Hania Sholkamy, James Toth, Kirsten Westergaard, Peter Winch, Ahmed Zayed
ER  -