ISBN: 9780804755672 - the great social laboratory: subjects of knowledge in colonial and postcolonial egypt (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorOmnia El Shakry is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Davis.KlappentextThis book charts the development of the social sciences--anthropology, human geography, an.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 328 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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.…