Bibliograph

People and pollution, cultural constructions and social action in Egypt, Nicholas S. Hopkins, Sohair R. Mehanna, Salah el-Haggar

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People and pollution, cultural constructions and social action in Egypt, Nicholas S. Hopkins, Sohair R. Mehanna, Salah el-Haggar

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

People and pollution

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Nicholas S. Hopkins, Sohair R. Mehanna, Salah el-Haggar

Sub title

cultural constructions and social action in Egypt

Summary

This volume based on recent fieldwork by distinguished specialists includes information on the changing economic situation in the countryside, particularly after the 'owners and tenants' law of 1992. Along with the effects of structural adjustment on agriculture, marketing, and rural life, several chapters address the declining trend of rural Egyptians to emigrate. Other chapters examine changes in consumption patterns and health, various rural social processes and the 'new lands' being reclaimed in Egypt's desert areas, representations of the rural population in the media and in statistics, and their own changing self-image. What emerges is a picture of a rural Egypt that is full of life, dramatically evolving, and treading a delicate line between progress and impoverishment. Although nothing is typical of rural Egypt, these papers provide a revealing account of the struggles and rewards that characterize the Egyptian countryside today. Contributors: Mohamed Hassan Abdel Aal, Lila Abu-Lughod, Soraya Altorki, Kamran Asdar Ali, Kirsten Haugaard Bach, Ray Bush, Donald Cole, Nicholas Hopkins, François Ireton, Sohair Mehanna, Günter Meyer, Timothy Mitchell, Mohamed M. Mohieddin, Detlef Müller-Mahn, Hans-Christian Korsholm Nielsen, Malak Rouchdy, Reem Saad, Hania Sholkamy, James Toth, Kirsten Westergaard, Peter Winch, Ahmed Zayed

Target audience

adult

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