{"product_id":"the-great-social-laboratory-2","title":"The Great Social Laboratory","description":"\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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOmnia 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\n","brand":"Omnia El Shakry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43572200210614,"sku":"9780804781923","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780804781923_a30bcc75-7971-465d-ac13-94ac85bc6551.jpg?v=1727355238","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/the-great-social-laboratory-2","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}