Orban and Empire : An environmental history of Bedouin communities resistance against the French colonization attempt in Egypt, 1798-1801
(2019) Historical Materialism 16th Conference p.68-68- Abstract
- By applying the theoretical concepts of wilderness, and uneven and combined development, I provide a partial environmental history of the French invasion of Egypt (1798-1801). This history addresses how Egypt’s ecological settings influenced the resistance to the French colonization attempt, and how the French occupation sought to change the ecological settings of Egypt and why. By reconstructing two moments of the Bedouin communities’ resistance against the French invasion, the paper concludes that wilderness, which shaped the contours of uneven and combined development of sedentary and nomadic populations at that moment, granted the resistance combat technology and tactic. The French sought to change these same ecological settings by... (More)
- By applying the theoretical concepts of wilderness, and uneven and combined development, I provide a partial environmental history of the French invasion of Egypt (1798-1801). This history addresses how Egypt’s ecological settings influenced the resistance to the French colonization attempt, and how the French occupation sought to change the ecological settings of Egypt and why. By reconstructing two moments of the Bedouin communities’ resistance against the French invasion, the paper concludes that wilderness, which shaped the contours of uneven and combined development of sedentary and nomadic populations at that moment, granted the resistance combat technology and tactic. The French sought to change these same ecological settings by dispossessing mobile populations of their mobility, in order to create a different uneven and combined development in Egypt, more friendly to a colonial core-periphery extraction process. The study presents an attempt at an environmental historical approach to understanding Egypt’s history at the turn of the 19th century, and an attempt towards approaching the desert as wilderness, as a contribution to the theoretical discussion on wilderness in the sub-discipline of ecocriticism. (Less)
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- Ahmed, Amr LU
- publishing date
- 2019-11-07
- type
- Contribution to conference
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Environmental History, Egypt, Ecocriticism, Wilderness, Colonialism
- pages
- 1 pages
- conference name
- Historical Materialism 16th Conference
- conference location
- London, United Kingdom
- conference dates
- 2019-11-07 - 2019-11-10
- project
- Early encounters with coal: Retrieving views from below
- language
- English
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abstract = {{By applying the theoretical concepts of wilderness, and uneven and combined development, I provide a partial environmental history of the French invasion of Egypt (1798-1801). This history addresses how Egypt’s ecological settings influenced the resistance to the French colonization attempt, and how the French occupation sought to change the ecological settings of Egypt and why. By reconstructing two moments of the Bedouin communities’ resistance against the French invasion, the paper concludes that wilderness, which shaped the contours of uneven and combined development of sedentary and nomadic populations at that moment, granted the resistance combat technology and tactic. The French sought to change these same ecological settings by dispossessing mobile populations of their mobility, in order to create a different uneven and combined development in Egypt, more friendly to a colonial core-periphery extraction process. The study presents an attempt at an environmental historical approach to understanding Egypt’s history at the turn of the 19th century, and an attempt towards approaching the desert as wilderness, as a contribution to the theoretical discussion on wilderness in the sub-discipline of ecocriticism.}},
author = {{Ahmed, Amr}},
keywords = {{Environmental History; Egypt; Ecocriticism; Wilderness; Colonialism}},
language = {{eng}},
month = {{11}},
pages = {{68--68}},
title = {{Orban and Empire : An environmental history of Bedouin communities resistance against the French colonization attempt in Egypt, 1798-1801}},
year = {{2019}},
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