Rule of Experts [[electronic resource] ] : Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity

• Autore: Mitchell Timothy
• 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 genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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.: 9910450333003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II