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dc.contributor.author | Koussa, Ziad | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-05-10T07:47:10Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2022-05-10T07:47:10Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0022278X | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://scholarhub.balamand.edu.lb/handle/uob/5555 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This article examines changes in the allocation of urban land in Egypt between 1975-2011 with the rise and incorporation of state authoritarianism and neoliberal economics in what I call 'authoritarian neoliberalism'. Authoritarian neoliberalism in Egypt transferred ownership of urban lands from public wealth to an affluent class of local and foreign capitalists - often in a non-transparent fashion. The article focuses on the government's legally sanctioned practices of subsidisations, privatisations and evictions as they relate to what I call, inspired by David Harvey's formulation, the accumulation of wealth by dispossession. Dispossession of public urban land, I maintain, generated widespread resentment that played a vital, but inadequately discussed, role in the series of revolts that culminated in the 2011 uprising in Egypt. Social tensions engendered in this authoritarian neoliberal regime, I argue, endure under the administration of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who continues to transfer public urban lands, from lower to higher socioeconomic classes, at an even faster pace than his predecessor. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.subject | Accumulation by dispossession | en_US |
dc.subject | Arab Uprising | en_US |
dc.subject | Egypt | en_US |
dc.subject | Neoliberalism | en_US |
dc.title | The politics of public land dispossession in Egypt: 1975-2011 and beyond | en_US |
dc.type | Journal Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1017/S0022278X20000166 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | 2-s2.0-85090443435 | - |
dc.identifier.url | https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85090443435 | - |
dc.contributor.affiliation | Department of Political Science and International Affairs | en_US |
dc.description.volume | 58 | en_US |
dc.description.issue | 2 | en_US |
dc.description.startpage | 235 | en_US |
dc.description.endpage | 255 | en_US |
dc.date.catalogued | 2022-05-10 | - |
dc.description.status | Published | en_US |
dc.identifier.ezproxyURL | http://ezsecureaccess.balamand.edu.lb/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X20000166 | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartoftext | Journal of Modern African Studies | en_US |
crisitem.author.parentorg | Faculty of Arts and Sciences | - |
Appears in Collections: | UOB Special Programs |
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