Rule of experts : Egypt, techno-politics, modernity / / Timothy Mitchell

• Autore: Mitchell Timothy <1955->
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (429 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.962
• Soggetto topico: Peasants - Egypt - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Egypt Economic policy; Egypt Economic conditions 1919-1952; Egypt Economic conditions 1952-; Egypt Politics and government 20th century
• Note generali: Parts of the text previously published.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-401) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Para-sites of capitalism -- Can the mosquito speak? -- Principles true in every country -- The character of calculability -- Peasant studies -- The invention and reinvention of the peasant -- Nobody listens to a poor man -- Heritage and violence -- Fixing the economy -- The object of development -- The market's place -- Dreamland.
• 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.: 9910820507403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II