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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782932303321

Autore

Mitchell Timothy

Titolo

Rule of experts [[electronic resource] ] : Egypt, techno-politics, modernity

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2002

ISBN

0-520-92825-3

1-59734-880-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (429 p.)

Disciplina

330.1220962

338.962

Soggetti

Egypt-- Economic policy

Peasantry

Peasantry - Egypt - History - 20th century

Egypt Economic policy

Egypt Economic conditions 1919-1952

Egypt Economic conditions 1952-

Egypt Politics and government 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration; Introduction; I. PARA-SITES OF CAPITALISM; 1. Can the Mosquito Speak?; 2. Principles True in Every Country; 3. The Character of Calculability; II. PEASANT STUDIES; 4. The Invention and Reinvention of the Peasant; 5. Nobody Listens to a Poor Man; 6. Heritage and Violence; III. FIXING THE ECONOMY; 7. The Object of Development; 8. The Market's Place; 9. Dreamland; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Can one explain the power of global capitalism without attributing to capital a logic and coherence it does not have? Can one account for the powers of techno-science in terms that do not merely reproduce its own understanding of the world?Rule of Experts examines these questions through a series of interrelated essays focused on Egypt in the twentieth century. These explore the way malaria, sugar cane, war,



and nationalism interacted to produce the techno-politics of the modern Egyptian state; the forms of debt, discipline, and violence that founded the institution