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

IF 0.3 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Global Environment Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI:10.3197/ge.2022.150205

A. Abazeed, Yasmine Hafez

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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.

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想象尼罗河:19世纪人类世的知识与力量联系

尼罗河在民族主义者的回忆录和外国人的游记中都占有显著的地位。本文探讨了人类对尼罗河的干预，不是在景观的物理变化中，而是在19世纪欧洲和奥斯曼帝国的想象、话语和知识生产中。我们展示了“现代河流”的出现是如何通过尼罗河的想象和知识的两个关键菌株成为可能的。这篇论文研究了欧洲旅行者的作品和埃及现代主义者al ā Mubārak的民族主义作品。通过我们的分析，我们展示了尼罗河是如何由两个主要的讲述故事的冒险:欧洲游记和埃及现代主义写作共同构成的。

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Global Environment ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-

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0.50

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25.00%

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