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

Chowdhury, Savinna

Hardcover

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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About the Author

Anthony Oberschall was educated at Harvard and earned a PhD in sociology at Columbia in 1962. He has taught at UCLA, Yale and since 1980 at the University of North Carolina, where he is now Emeritus Professor. He has been a Guggenheim fellow and a New Century Scholar in the Fulbright program. He has taught and researched in East and Central Africa, the People's Republic of China, and Germany, France and Hungary, Bosnia, and Northern Ireland. Among his books are Social Conflict and Social Movements (1973) and Social Movements: Ideologies, Interests, and Identities (1993). Since the late 1980s, he has studied, lectured and written on conflict and conflict management in divided societies.

Edition details

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