Markets of Dispossession: NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo (Politics, History, and Culture)

"Ethnographically rich and analytically powerful,Markets of Dispossessionfundamentally reshapes the debate over the informal economy, microenterprise, and economic development and points to the complex and many-layered world-conjuring work of that which we have come to call neoliberalism. Based on evocative accounts of craftsmen's workshops in Cairo, Julia Elyachar shows how the market expansion promoted by the World Bank, NGOs, and others poses critical challenges to both everyday lives and contemporary social analysis."-Bill Maurer, author ofMutual Life, Limited: Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral ReasonJulia Elyachar is the author of 'Markets of Dispossession: NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo (Politics, History, and Culture)', published 2005 under ISBN 9780822335832 and ISBN 0822335832.