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A Service of Leibniz-Informationszentrum econstor Wirtschaft Leibniz Information Centre Make Your Publications Visible. zbw for Economics Bono, Irene (Ed.); Hibou, Béatrice (Ed.) Book — Published Version Development as a battlefield International Development Policy, No. 8 Provided in Cooperation with: The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva Suggested Citation: Bono, Irene (Ed.); Hibou, Béatrice (Ed.) (2017) : Development as a battlefield, International Development Policy, No. 8, ISBN 978-90-04-34955-1, Brill Nijhoff, Leiden, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004349551 This Version is available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/178419 Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen: Terms of use: Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Documents in EconStor may be saved and copied for your Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden. personal and scholarly purposes. 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THE GRADUATE INSTITUTE | GENEVA Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement Research Office/Publications p.o. Box 1672 CH–1211 Geneva 1 Switzerland [email protected] http://www.graduateinstitute.ch/home/research/publications.html <UN> Development As A Battlefield Edited By Irene Bono Béatrice Hibou leiden | boston <UN> This is an open access book distributed under the terms of the CC-BY-NC license at the time of publication, which permits any non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduc- tion in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. Cover illustration: Street scene in the old town of Iiaret, Algeria, 18 December 2012. Photographer © Aurélie Lecarpentier [Aalek] The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available online at http://catalog.loc.gov lc record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2017027627 Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”. See and download: brill.com/brill-typeface. issn 1663-9383 isbn 978-90-04-34952-0 (paperback) isbn 978-90-04-34955-1 (e-book) Copyright 2017 by the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. Koninklijke Brill nv incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Rodopi and Hotei Publishing. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill nv provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, ma 01923, usa. Fees are subject to change. This book is printed on acid-free paper and produced in a sustainable manner. <UN> Contents Foreword ix Preface xii List of Illustrations xiii List of Acronyms and Abbreviations XIV Notes on Contributors XVI Introduction 1 1 Development as a Battlefield 3 Irene Bono and Béatrice Hibou PART 1 Conflicts that Create Consensus 2 Two Lives of Developmentalism: A Polanyian View from Turkey 37 Ayşe Buğra 3 Workers vs Machines: Ottoman Tunis between Industrialisation and Colonisation 61 Nora Lafi 4 ‘An Uphill Job Demanding Limitless Patience’. The Establishment of Trade Unions and the Conflicts of Development in Sudan, 1946–1952 81 Elena Vezzadini 5 The Activities of Adl Wal Ihsane in the Neighbourhoods. How to Build a ‘Non-Legal’ Consensus from a ‘Tolerated’ Conflict 109 Merieme Yafout <UN> viii Contents PART 2 Consensus as An Expression of Conflict 6 War and State (Re)Construction in Afghanistan: Conflicts of Tradition or Conflicts of Development? 137 Fariba Adelkhah 7 Resisting Neo-Liberal Skylines: Social Mobilisations and Entrepreneurial Urban Development in Tel Aviv 164 Adriana Kemp and Talia Margalit 8 A ‘Time’ to Act: The 2015–20 Development Plan for Greater Casablanca 189 Nadia Hachimi Alaoui 9 The Muslim Brotherhood’s ‘Virtuous Society’ and State Developmentalism in Egypt: The Politics of ‘Goodness’ 220 Marie Vannetzel PART 3 The Definition of Legitimate Conflicts 10 Development and Countermovements. Reflections on the Conflicts Arising from the Commodification of Collective Land in Morocco 247 Yasmine Berriane 11 Charity and Commercial Success as Vectors of Asymmetry and Inequality: The Unconceptualised Elements of Development in Islamist Sudan during the First Republic 268 Raphaëlle Chevrillon-Guibert 12 A Neo-liberal Exception? The Defence Industry ‘Turkification’ Project 299 Anouck Gabriela
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