Ray Bush
Ray Bush is Professor of African Studies and Development Politics at the University of Leeds. He has worked on and in Africa for 25 years. He researchs the political economy of economic reform and rural transformation currently in Egypt and Ghana. He is the author of Poverty and Neoliberalism: Persistence and Reproduction in the Global South (Pluto Books, London,2007) and deputy chair of The Review of African Political Economy.
Books by Ray Bush
Marginality and Exclusion in Egypt and the Middle East
Edited by Habib Ayeb, Ray Bush
What does it mean to be marginalized? Is it a passive condition that the disadvantaged simply have to endure? Or is it a manufactured label, re-produced and by its nature transitory? In the wake of the new Egyptian revolution, this insightful collection explores issues of power, politics and inequality in Egypt and the Middle East. It argues that the notion of marginality tends to mask the true power relations that perpetuate poverty and exclusion. It is these dynamic processes of political and… (more information)