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Week 5—The dialectic of civility and community
Week 5—The dialectic of civility and community
Main reading: Elyachar (2010)
Elyachar (2010) is writing an empirical description and analysis of a particular place and time, but her topic resonates with a number of ideas and general phenomena that students of development, human rights, and social change often discuss.
What are some other empirical examples that you think either compare or contrast with the situation that Elyachar describes? Where did you learn about them? (For each of the examples you recall from other classes, cite the sources and provide the references for the information.)
And, if you have never heard of anything that is similar to the work going on in the Cairo neighborhood described by Elyachar, can you find a scholarly work presenting similar empirical examples now? Where did you find it? What is the source for these examples?)
References
Elyachar, Julia. 2010. “Phatic Labor, Infrastructure, and the Question of Empowerment in Cairo.” American Ethnologist 37 (3): 452–64. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2010.01265.x.