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

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

El Shakry, Omnia

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African HistoryGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 080479331X
ISBN13: 9780804793315
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Oct 1 2014
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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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