Privatizing welfare in the Middle East : kin mutual aid associations in Jordan and Lebanon.
Anne Marie Baylouny examines previously undocumented effects of neoliberal economic reforms on middle classes in the Middle East. As the state's safety network has been withdrawn, kin-based mutual aid associations—organized around new definitions of kinship and identity and geared to contempora...
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| Format: | Ouvrage |
| Jezik: | Anglais |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
2010.
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| Serija: | Indiana series in Middle East studies.
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Sadržaj:
- Introduction : organizing for security
- Welfare, work, and collective action
- State and militia welfare and their demise
- Hard times and private-sector welfare options
- Kin mutual aid
- Creating kin and new institutions
- Elites, elections, and civil society
- Conclusion : insight into identity and institutions.