Year of manufacture: 1988
Author: Timothy Mitchell
Genre: history, post-colonial theory
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 9780520075689
Format: DOC
Number of Pages: 213
in English


Timothy Mitchell analyzes Western ideas about order and truth in the context of the European colonial project in Egypt of the 19th century. Turning to the views of the French philosopher Michel Foucault, Mitchell examines the role of disciplinary mechanisms and the forced "normalization" of society in the formation of colonial consciousness.

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