Markets of dispossession
Book • 2005
In Markets of Dispossession, Julia Elyachar examines how Egypt’s changing political economy has shaped and been shaped by the practices of young entrepreneurs in Cairo.
The book is about how these emergent practices, and the ways that people talk about them, offer an understanding of political economy that has more purchase than the existing social science categories.
Based on fieldwork in Cairo over fifteen years, the book proposes an anthropological approach that links global discourses to urban life.
It provides an ethnography of the making of a new vision of the future in Egypt.
The book will appeal to those interested in anthropology, political economy, Islamic finance, and the Middle East.
The book is about how these emergent practices, and the ways that people talk about them, offer an understanding of political economy that has more purchase than the existing social science categories.
Based on fieldwork in Cairo over fifteen years, the book proposes an anthropological approach that links global discourses to urban life.
It provides an ethnography of the making of a new vision of the future in Egypt.
The book will appeal to those interested in anthropology, political economy, Islamic finance, and the Middle East.
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