City of the High Dam: Aswan and the Promise of Postcolonialism in Egypt

Reynolds, Nancy Y.

doi:10.1111/ciso.12119

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“…As Nancy Y. Reynolds (2017) has documented, Aswan's urban fabric underwent rapid development during a decade of construction. The population quadrupled because of the influx of Egyptian and European workers, experts, and engineers.…”

Section: Taming the Nilementioning

confidence: 99%

An Anthropology of Crosslocations

Green,

Lähteenaho,

Douzina-Bakalaki

et al. 2024

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An Anthropology of Crosslocations introduces a radical new approach to understanding location. The co-authors show that the question of where something is depends on how places are mutually connected and disconnected. The location of a place can be established by different logics, such as national borders, ecosystems, or economic zones. These different ways of classifying the relative value and significance of a place coexist and overlap: for example, national borders are regularly crosscut by ecosystems. By thinking of 'location' as a process defined by several different coexisting locating regimes, the book showcases a fresh way to think about the multiple and overlapping connections and disconnections between here and elsewhere. This approach can fundamentally revise ethnographic and anthropological views on the importance, value and significance of where people, things and animals are located and, as such, redefines the idea of ‘the field.’ The volume brings together seven anthropologists who have worked together for six years. The chapters take the reader through a series of journeys around the Mediterranean region—to North Africa, the East Mediterranean, and Southern Europe. Each chapter unfolds an ethnographic or historical account of the coexistence of different values and meanings of location in different places.

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Section: Taming the Nilementioning

confidence: 99%

An Anthropology of Crosslocations

Green,

Lähteenaho,

Douzina-Bakalaki

et al. 2024

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“…For instance, the Sahara Labor City, established around 1960 in Aswan, was designed to accommodate both Egyptian and foreign workers involved in the construction of the High Dam (Reynolds, 2017). Similarly, the Labor City for Aluminum Industries in Nag Hammadi was established around 1971.…”

Section: Egypt's Pre-nucp Post-colonially Influenced Citiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Revitalizing Urban Governance: Integrating Smart Growth and Decolonial Perspectives for Municipal Empowerment in Shaping Growth Across Egyptian Desert Landscapes

Alhowaily

2023

JCUA

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This article explores the connection between Smart Growth and the decolonization of urban growth management in Egypt, examining the impact of former colonial influence on present urban policy and practices. Drawing insights from the urbanization of Egyptian desert areas before and after the New Urban Communities Program (NUCP), it scrutinizes how historical influences adversely affect contemporary approaches, inducing socio-economic impacts. The primary objective is to identify the root causes of misguided urban growth management practices, arguing that mono-institutional and sectoral development is rooted in Egypt's quasi-colonial history preceding the NUCP. The research employs a comprehensive methodological approach, using descriptive qualitative methods to investigate the growth of emerging cities based on Smart Growth principles and quantitative analysis to assess population decongestion resulting from the NUCP. It evaluates the implementation of Smart Growth principles during the NUCP and pre-NUCP, offering insights into adverse management practices. Despite the NUCP's goal to alleviate congestion, only 1.6 percent of the population was decongested by 2017. The research highlights the need for a new municipally guided growth model, emphasizing indigenous and locally validated approaches. This model aims to rectify inefficiencies in current urban management practices, fostering a responsive and sustainable approach aligned with local community needs.

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“…Dams are usually more than just a pile of rocks and cement, of course, but some dams do more than plug a river; they are conceptually productive. Recent scholarship on dam building projects in the Middle East has acknowledged this feature (e.g., Derr, 2011;Reynolds, 2012;. Timothy Mitchell writes of dams as a means to "rearrange the natural and social environment .…”

Section: Primary Sourcesmentioning

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Transforming Socio-Natures in Turkey

İnal¹,

Turhan²

2019

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This book is an exploration of the environmental makings and contested historical trajectories of environmental change in Turkey. Despite the recent proliferation of studies on the political economy of environmental change and urban transformation, until now there has not been a sufficiently complete treatment of Turkey's troubled environments, which live on the edge both geographically (between Europe and Middle East) and politically (between democracy and totalitarianism).The contributors to Transforming Socio-Natures in Turkey use the toolbox of environmental humanities to explore the main political, cultural and historical factors relating to the country's socio-environmental problems. This leads not only to a better grounding of some of the historical and contemporary debates on the environment in Turkey, but also a deeper understanding of the multiplicity of framings around more-than-human interactions in the country in a time of authoritarian populism. This book will be of interest not only to students of Turkey from a variety of social science and humanities disciplines but also contribute to the larger debates on environmental change and developmentalism in the context of a global populist turn.

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City of the High Dam: Aswan and the Promise of Postcolonialism in Egypt

Cited by 8 publications

References 14 publications

An Anthropology of Crosslocations

An Anthropology of Crosslocations

Revitalizing Urban Governance: Integrating Smart Growth and Decolonial Perspectives for Municipal Empowerment in Shaping Growth Across Egyptian Desert Landscapes

Transforming Socio-Natures in Turkey

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