{"product_id":"the-great-social-laboratory-9780804793315","title":"The Great Social Laboratory","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book charts the development of the social sciences—anthropology, human geography, and demography—in colonial and postcolonial Egypt, exploring the broader significance of knowledge production and its relationship to colonialist and nationalist ideologies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Omnia El Shakry's contribution is a rich and erudite one. It draws on a range of archival sources in Arabic, French, and English, offering original readings of texts and political events of Egypt in the first half of the twentieth century. Her argument is eloquent and the evidence compelling. \u003ci\u003eThe Great Social Laboratory\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential addition to courses across the critical social sciences and humanities.\" -- \u003ci\u003eJournal of Middle East Women's Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Great Social Laboratory\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant study of the tension between imperial projects and nationalist imaginings. Examining the ways in which colonial Egypt became a site and object of social scientific knowledge, Omnia El Shakry offers a seminal contribution to debates about the place of colonialism in the development of modern science.\" -- Timothy Mitchell * New York University *\u003cbr\u003e\"This excellent and well-researched book recounts the formation and application of colonial knowledge—especially of ethnography, human geography, and demography—in the attempts to modernize and govern Egypt. It makes a significant contribution to the important debate about colonial modernity that has so far been largely confined to India.\" -- Talal Asad * City University of New York, author of \u003ci\u003eFormations of the Secular\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e@fmct:Contents  @toc4:Acknowledgments\tiii  Note on Transliteration\tiii  Abbreviations\tiii  @toc2:Introduction: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Knowledge Production\t1  @toc1:I\tThe Anthropology of the Modern Egyptians:  From the Fin-De-Si'cle to the Second World War  @toc2:Chapter 1\tThe Ethnographic Moment\t000  Chapter 2\tAnthropology's Indigenous Interlocutors: Race and Egyptian Nationalism\t000  @toc1:II\tFrom Ethnographic Realism to Social Engineering:  The Problem of the Peasantry, 1925-1945  @toc2:Chapter 3\tThe Painting of Rural Life\t000  Chapter 4\tRural Reconstruction: The \"Road to a New Sanitary Life\"\t000  @toc1:III\tThe Problem of Population, 19251945  @toc2:Chapter 5\tBarren Land and Fecund Bodies: the Emergence of Population Discourse\t000  Chapter 6\tBody Politics: Gender, Reproduction and Modernity\t000  @toc1:IV\tThe Revolutionary Moment  @toc2:Chapter 7\tEtatism: Theorizing the Revolutionary State\t000  Conclusion\t000  @toc4:Notes\t000  Bibliography\t000  Index\t000","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405620879703,"sku":"9780804793315","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804793315.jpg?v=1730493029","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-great-social-laboratory-9780804793315","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}