Everyday Economic Practices: The 'Hidden Transcripts' of Egyptian Voices (New Political Economy) - Hardcover

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Chowdhury, Savinna

 
9780415955522: Everyday Economic Practices: The 'Hidden Transcripts' of Egyptian Voices (New Political Economy)
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ISBN 10: 0415955521 ISBN 13: 9780415955522
Publisher: Routledge, 2007

Synopsis

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.

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Savinna Chowdhury

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415955521
ISBN 13 
9780415955522
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
192

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