02357nam 22004453u 450 991045033300332120210114201313.00-520-92825-31-59734-880-5(CKB)1000000000007007(EBL)224371(MiAaPQ)EBC224371(EXLCZ)99100000000000700720140414d2002|||| u|| |engRule of Experts[electronic resource] Egypt, Techno-Politics, ModernityBerkeley University of California Press20021 online resource (429 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-23261-5 0-520-23262-3 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;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 institutionEgypt-- Economic policyPeasantryPeasantry - Egypt - History - 20th centuryElectronic books.Egypt-- Economic policy.Peasantry.Peasantry - Egypt - History - 20th century.330.1220962338.962Mitchell Timothy658201AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910450333003321Rule of experts1548046UNINA