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The Great Social Laboratory

- Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt

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  • Format
  • Bog, hardback
  • Engelsk
  • 328 sider

Beskrivelse

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.

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Detaljer
  • SprogEngelsk
  • Sidetal328
  • Udgivelsesdato29-10-2007
  • ISBN139780804755672
  • Forlag Stanford University Press
  • FormatHardback
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  • Vægt599 g
  • Dybde2,4 cm
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    10 cm
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    15,2 cm
    22,9 cm

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