{"product_id":"the-great-social-laboratory-subjects-of-knowledge-in-colonial-and-postcolonial-egypt-9780804793315","title":"The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Omnia El Shakry\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Middle East - Egypt (see also Ancient - Egypt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Great Social Laboratory\u003c\/i\u003e charts the development of the human sciences--anthropology, human geography, and demography--in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century Egypt. Tracing both intellectual and institutional genealogies of knowledge production, this book examines social science through a broad range of texts and cultural artifacts, ranging from the ethnographic museum to architectural designs to that pinnacle of social scientific research--\"the article.\" Omnia El Shakry explores the interface between European and Egyptian social scientific discourses and interrogates the boundaries of knowledge production in a colonial and post-colonial setting. She examines the complex imperatives of race, class, and gender in the Egyptian colonial context, uncovering the new modes of governance, expertise, and social knowledge that defined a distinctive era of nationalist politics in the inter- and post-war periods. Finally, she examines the discursive field mapped out by colonial and nationalist discourses on the racial identity of the modern Egyptians.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46497949974679,"sku":"9780804793315","price":3159.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780804793315.webp?v=1769190354","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-great-social-laboratory-subjects-of-knowledge-in-colonial-and-postcolonial-egypt-9780804793315","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}