The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt - Couverture souple

El Shakry, Omnia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 080479331X ISBN 13 : 9780804793315

Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2014

Synopsis

The Great Social Laboratory charts the development of the human sciences--anthropology, human geography, and demography--in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century Egypt. Tracing both intellectual and institutional genealogies of knowledge production, this book examines social science through a broad range of texts and cultural artifacts, ranging from the ethnographic museum to architectural designs to that pinnacle of social scientific research--"the article." Omnia El Shakry explores the interface between European and Egyptian social scientific discourses and interrogates the boundaries of knowledge production in a colonial and post-colonial setting. She examines the complex imperatives of race, class, and gender in the Egyptian colonial context, uncovering the new modes of governance, expertise, and social knowledge that defined a distinctive era of nationalist politics in the inter- and post-war periods. Finally, she examines the discursive field mapped out by colonial and nationalist discourses on the racial identity of the modern Egyptians.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Omnia El Shakry is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Davis.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stanford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 080479331X
• ISBN 13: 9780804793315
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 344
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• Personne responsable: non disponible