"In the economics of everyday life, even ethnicity has become a potential resource to be tapped, generating new sources of profit and power, new ways of being social, and new visions of the future. Throughout Africa, ethnic corporations have been repurposed to do business in mining or tourism;...

This dissertation investigates the relationships between food systems and the built environment through the lens of political economy, focusing on the case of Egypt. It argues that food systems as well as the factors that influence them at social, economic, and political levels also affect...