What happened to participation?

What happened to participation?

Urban development and authoritarian upgrading in Cairo’s informal neighbourhoods

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Autrice: Elena Piffero
Collana: Geografie

Praised as the solution for emancipating poor and marginalised groups and for fostering good governance at the local level, participation has emerged in the last decades as the feature sine qua non of development interventions: but how feasible is it to promote participatory forms of development in authoritarian contexts such as post-Socialist Egypt? By integrating political, sociological and anthropological analytical approaches, this book explores the socio-political implications of a participatory urban development programme sponsored in Cairo’s informal neighbourhoods by the German Technical Cooperation. While describing the context of the development intervention, the study disentangles in a vivid and detailed way the system of local action in which the “poor”, far from being “subaltern” and “powerless” victims, navigate; it investigates the politics of informal regulation, revealing the social logic behind what is commonly labelled as “corruption” and “clientelism”; it finally examines the strategies adopted by the cooperation agency and the way these have been appropriated, manipulated and by-passed by local actors.
This book, based on sound empirical evidence, is a fascinating reading for anyone interested in Cairo and in the contradictions between development theories and practices.


Autrice
Elena Piffero Is Doctor of Philosophy in International Cooperation and Sustainable Development Policies (University of Bologna, Italy). Her research fields include democratisation processes, civil society and local development in the Middle East.


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