Custodians of the Soil- Land, Rights and Conflict in Egypt

Name: Custodians of the Soil- Land, Rights and Conflict in Egypt
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ISBN: 9783836425674

ISBN-10: 383642567X

ISBN-13: 9783836425674

Edition: N/A

Authors: Caroline Tingay

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Many of Egypt's intelligentsia had predicted widespread rural violence and even the possibility of a social revolution, when Nasser's land reform of 1952 was finally revoked in October 1997. Why did this not happen? In this stimulating account of village politics and the struggle for land, Caroline Tingay shows that there were multiple and often conflicting interests at stake surrounding Mubarak's new tenancy law, which cannot be simplified into an issue of 'winners' versus 'losers'. She suggests that the high levels of interdependency which form the basis of rural tenancy networks, together with the repressive mechanisms put into place by a brutal state apparatus; would never have allowed…

Book details

List price: $76.00
Publisher: .AV Akademikerverlag GmbH & Co. KG
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 196
Size: 6.69" wide x 9.61" long x 0.42" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English