Fung Public Book Talk | Julia Elyachar: On the Semicivilized Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo
- When
- Wednesday, Dec 9 · 4:30 PM
- Where
- Princeton UniversityLouis A. Simpson International Building, 144
- Admission
- Free
- Organizer
- Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS)
Princeton anthropologist Julia Elyachar discusses her new book On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo. Drawing on thirty years of fieldwork in Cairo, family archives from Palestine and Egypt and research on Ottoman debt, she examines how coloniality shaped and blocked sovereign futures in the former Ottoman Empire.
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