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Imagining the Nile: Knowledge-Power Nexus in the 19th Century Anthropocene

Abazeed, Abeer R.Y.; Hafez, Yasmine

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Abeer R.Y. Abazeed

Yasmine Hafez



Abstract

The Nile River has featured prominently in both nationalist memoirs and foreigners' travelogues. This paper explores human interventions in the Nile, not in the physical changes in the landscape but rather in the imagination, discourses and knowledge production of the nineteenth century European and Ottoman Empires. We show how the emergence of the 'modern river' was made possible by two crucial strains of Nile imaginaries and knowledge. The paper examines writings by European travellers and nationalist writing by Egypt's modernist, Alī Mubārak. Through our analysis we show how the Nile was co-constituted by two principal story-telling ventures: European travelogues and Egyptian modernist writing.

Citation

Abazeed, A. R., & Hafez, Y. (2022). Imagining the Nile: Knowledge-Power Nexus in the 19th Century Anthropocene. Global Environment: A Journal of Transdisciplinary History, 15(2), 298-321. https://doi.org/10.3197/ge.2022.150205

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Jun 1, 2022
Deposit Date Nov 26, 2023
Publicly Available Date Nov 26, 2023
Print ISSN 1973-3739
Electronic ISSN 2053-7352
Publisher White Horse Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 15
Issue 2
Pages 298-321
DOI https://doi.org/10.3197/ge.2022.150205
Publisher URL https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3197/ge.2022.150205

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