Rule of experts [[electronic resource] ] : Egypt, techno-politics, modernity
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| Autore: |
Mitchell Timothy
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| Titolo: |
Rule of experts [[electronic resource] ] : Egypt, techno-politics, modernity
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (429 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 330.1220962 |
| 338.962 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Egypt-- Economic policy |
| Peasantry | |
| Peasantry - Egypt - History - 20th century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Egypt Economic policy |
| Egypt Economic conditions 1919-1952 | |
| Egypt Economic conditions 1952- | |
| Egypt Politics and government 20th century | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | 20th century |
| academic | |
| capitalism | |
| contemporary | |
| disease | |
| economic reform | |
| economics | |
| economy | |
| egypt | |
| essay anthology | |
| essay collection | |
| farming | |
| global capitalism | |
| global | |
| horticulture | |
| international | |
| logic | |
| logical | |
| malaria | |
| middle east | |
| modern world | |
| national economy | |
| nationalism | |
| peasants | |
| plagiarism | |
| political theory | |
| political | |
| politics | |
| scholarly | |
| social class | |
| stereotypes | |
| sugar cane | |
| techno politics | |
| techno science | |
| technology | |
| wartime | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Rule of experts |
| ISBN: | 0-520-92825-3 |
| 1-59734-880-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910782932303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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