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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Derr, Jennifer L. (1976-....)
Titre(s) : The lived Nile [Texte imprimé] : environment, disease, and material colonial economy in Egypt / Jennifer L. Derr
Publication : Stanford (Calif.) : Stanford University Press, copyright [2019]
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xi, 244 pages) : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-229) and index
"In October 1902, the reservoir of the first Aswan Dam filled, and Egypt's relationship
with the Nile River forever changed. Flooding villages of historical northern Nubia
and filling the irrigation canals that flowed from the river, the perennial Nile not
only reshaped agriculture and the environment, but also Egypt's colonial economy and
forms of subjectivity. Jennifer L. Derr follows the engineers, capitalists, political
authorities, and laborers who built a new Nile River through the nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries. The river helped to shape the future of technocratic knowledge,
and the bodies of those who inhabited rural communities were transformed through the
environmental intimacies of their daily lives. At the root of this investigation lies
the notion that the Nile is not a singular entity, but a realm of practice and a set
of temporally, spatially, and materially specific relations that structured experiences
of colonial economy. From the microscopic to the regional, the local to the imperial,
The Lived Nile recounts the history and centrality of the environment to questions
of politics, knowledge, and the lived experience of the human body itself"--Provided
by publisher
Sujet(s) : Génie fluvial -- Égypte -- Histoire
Irrigation, Technique de l' -- Égypte -- Histoire
Barrages -- Aspect environnemental -- Égypte -- Histoire
Agriculture -- Aspect économique -- Égypte -- Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781503608672. - ISBN 1503608670. - ISBN 9781503609655. - ISBN 1503609650. -
ISBN 9781503609662 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46860481v
Notice n° :
FRBNF46860481
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction: A river, remade : making subjects on the perennial Nile ; Nile articulations
: decolonizing the history of irrigation engineering ; The dammed Nile : the thirty-year
project to build Khazan Aswan ; Beyond the frontier : negotiating the geography of
authority in Egypt's south ; Cruel summer : environmental labors and the scales of
subject making ; Treated subjects : irrigating the veins of the nation ; Conclusion:
The afterlives of the perennial subject.
