Development as a Battlefield

Irene Bono is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Torino, Italy. She is also research associate at the Mohamed VI Polytechnic University in Rabat, Morocco. Her research interests focus on the government of inequality and the role of non-institutional actors in the formation and transformation of the state.Béatrice Hibou is CNRS Senior Research Fellow at the Centre d’Études et de Recherches Internationales (CERI) in Paris, France. She is co-director of the Centre de Recherche, Économie, Société et Culture, Mohamed VI Polytechnic, University of Rabat, Morocco. Her comparative research in political economy focuses on the political significance of economic reform, state trajectories and the exercise of domination in Africa and Europe, from a Weberian perspective.

• ForewordPrefaceList of IllustrationsList of Acronyms and AbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction1 Development as a BattlefieldIrene Bono and Béatrice HibouPart 1: Conflicts that Create Consensus2 Two Lives of Developmentalism: A Polanyian View from TurkeyAyse Buğra3 Workers vs Machines: Ottoman Tunis between Industrialisation and ColonisationNora Lafi4 ‘An Uphill Job Demanding Limitless Patience’. The Establishment of Trade Unions and the Conflicts of Development in Sudan, 1946–1952Elena Vezzadini5 The Activities of Adl Wal Ihsane in the Neighbourhoods. How to Build a ‘Non-Legal’ Consensus from a ‘Tolerated’ ConflictMerieme YafoutPart 2: Consensus as An Expression of Conflict6 War and State (Re)Construction in Afghanistan: Conflicts of Tradition or Conflicts of Development?Fariba Adelkhah7 Resisting Neo-Liberal Skylines: Social Mobilisations and Entrepreneurial Urban Development in Tel AvivAdriana Kemp and Talia Margalit8 A ‘Time’ to Act: The 2015–20 Development Plan for Greater CasablancaNadia Hachimi Alaoui9 The Muslim Brotherhood’s ‘Virtuous society’ and State Developmentalism in Egypt: The Politics of ‘Goodness’Marie VannetzelPart 3: The Definition of Legitimate Conflicts 10 Development and Countermovements. Reflections on the Conflicts Arising from the Commodification of Collective Land in MoroccoYasmine Berriane11 Charity and Commercial Success as Vectors of Asymmetry and Inequality: The Unconceptualised Elements of Development in Islamist Sudan during the First RepublicRaphaëlle Chevrillon-Guibert12 A Neo-liberal Exception? The Defence Industry ‘Turkification’ ProjectAnouck Gabriela Côrte Réal-PintoIndex