dc.contributor.advisor |
Sunday, James |
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dc.contributor.author |
Mohamed, Bassant |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2019-05-22T09:54:50Z |
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dc.date.created |
Spring 2019 |
en_US |
dc.date.issued |
2019-05-22 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://dar.aucegypt.edu/handle/10526/5744 |
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dc.description.abstract |
This dissertation provides an agency-oriented approach to understand adaptability, continuity, and
change in the context of challenging structures and struggles, such as privatization, poverty,
unemployment, inequality, and marginalization. The premises of open market and neoliberalism
imposed from above by the state affected the development of the state-society relations and
marginalization. They resulted in a change in the subjectivities of the people and a neglectful rule
by the state. As a result, the responsiblized citizen came into existence, meaning that the
individualized citizen became actively responsible for his/her own wellbeing, which renders the
neoliberal strategies of rule existing in different realms of our everyday life. The Zabbaleen
community give a clear demonstration of the art of presence despite the marginalization, the
neglectful rule, and the policies that they suffer from. Their resilience depended on three main
variables: adaptation to neoliberal norms, the grassroot community development, and the unequal
power relations within the community. Each of them has its own playing factors. Through these
variables, the Zabbaleen community showed creativity and collective action to come up with new
spaces and opportunities from what is already available to them, protecting themselves, meeting
their needs, and struggling for a net result of politics of redress by their individual acts. |
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dc.format.extent |
125 P. |
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dc.format.medium |
theses |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
en_US |
dc.rights |
Author retains all rights with regard to copyright. |
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dc.subject |
Elzabaleen |
en_US |
dc.subject |
Marginalization |
en_US |
dc.subject |
state-society relations |
en_US |
dc.subject |
political economy |
en_US |
dc.subject |
Egypt |
en_US |
dc.subject |
Comparative politics |
en_US |
dc.subject |
neoliberalism |
en_US |
dc.subject |
Grassroot Community development |
en_US |
dc.subject |
inequalities |
en_US |
dc.subject |
Resilience |
en_US |
dc.subject |
ethnography |
en_US |
dc.subject |
informal settlement |
en_US |
dc.subject |
Subject formation |
en_US |
dc.subject |
Middle East politics |
en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Thesis (M.A.)--American University in Cairo |
en_US |
dc.title |
Continuity and change in the garbage village of Muqattam |
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dc.type |
Text |
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dc.subject.discipline |
Political Science |
en_US |
dc.rights.access |
This item is restricted for 2 years from the date issued |
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dc.contributor.department |
American University in Cairo. Dept. of Political Science |
en_US |
dc.embargo.lift |
2021-05-21T09:54:50Z |
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dc.description.irb |
American University in Cairo Institutional Review Board approval has been obtained for this item. |
en_US |
dc.contributor.committeeMember |
Sunday, James |
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dc.contributor.committeeMember |
Elnur, Ibrahim |
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dc.contributor.committeeMember |
Edel, Mirjam |
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