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On the Semicivilized
- Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo
Engelsk Paperback

On the Semicivilized

- Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo
Engelsk Paperback

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On the Semicivilized by Julia Elyachar is a sweeping analysis of the coloniality that shaped-and blocked-sovereign futures for those dubbed barbarian and semicivilized in the former Ottoman Empire. Drawing on thirty years of ethnographic research in Cairo, family archives from Palestine and Egypt, and research on Ottoman debt and finance to rethink catastrophe and potentiality in Cairo and the world today, Elyachar theorizes a global condition of the “semicivilized” marked by nonsovereign futures, crippling debts, and the constant specter of violence exercised by those who call themselves civilized. Originally used to describe the Ottoman Empire, whose perceived “civilizational differences” rendered it incompatible with a Western-dominated global order, semicivilized came to denote lands where unitary territorial sovereignty was stymied at the end of WWI. Elyachar’s theorizing offers a new analytic vocabulary for thinking beyond territoriality, postcolonialism, and the “civilized"/"primitive” divide. Looking at the world from the perspective of the semicivilized, Elyachar argues, allows us to shift attention to embodied infrastructures, collective lives, and practices of moving and acting in common that bypass lingering assumptions of territorialism and unitary sovereign rule.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781478031901
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1478031905
Udg. Dato:
31 maj 2025
Længde:
17mm
Bredde:
153mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
Duke University Press
Oplagsdato:
31 maj 2025
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