By: Ray Bush (Editor), Habib Ayeb (Editor)

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What does it mean to be marginalized? Is it a passive condition that the disadvantaged simply have to endure? Or is it a manufactured label, reproduced and by its nature transitory? In the wake of the new uprising in Egypt, this insightful collection explores issues of power, politics and inequality in Egypt and the Middle East. It argues that the notion of marginality tends to mask the true power relations that perpetuate poverty and exclusion. It is these dynamic processes of political and economic transformation that need explanation. The book provides a revealing analysis of key areas of Egyptian political economy, such as labour, urbanization and the creation of slums, disability, refugees, street children, and agrarian livelihoods, reaching the impactful conclusion that marginalization does not mean total exclusion. What is marginalized can be called upon to play a dynamic part in the future -- as is the case with the revolution that toppled President Mubarak.

Tables and figures	p. vi
Measures	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. viii
Marginality, poverty and political economy
Introduction: Marginality and exclusion in Egypt and the Middle East	p. 3
Marginality: curse or cure?	p. 14
Accumulation by encroachment in the Arab Mashreq	p. 28
Creating and reproducing marginality
Marginality or abjection? The political economy of poverty production in Egypt	p. 55
The marginalization of the small peasantry: Egypt and Tunisia	p. 72
Margins and frontiers	p. 97
Transport thugs: spatial marginalization in a Cairo suburb	p. 112
Against marginalization: workers, youth and class in the 25 January revolution	p. 133
National geographical targeting of poverty in Upper Egypt	p. 148
Working with street kids: unsettling accounts from the field	p. 169
Marginalization and self-marginalization: commercial education and its graduates	p. 191
Disability in transition in Egypt: between marginalization and rights	p. 219
Contributors	p. 236
Index	p. 238
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ISBN: 9781780320847
ISBN-10: 1780320841
Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 256
Published: 1st June 2012
Publisher: ZED BOOKS LTD
Dimensions (cm): 21.6 x 13.9  x 2.7
Weight (kg): 0.335