On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo

by Julia Elyachar

Book Overview

On the Semicivilized by Julia Elyachar is a sweeping analysis of coloniality that shaped--and blocked--sovereign futures for those dubbed barbarian and semicivilized in the former Ottoman Empire. Drawing on thirty years of ethnographic research in Cairo, family archives from Palestine and Egypt, and research on Ottoman debt and finance to rethink catastrophe and potentiality in Cairo and the world today, Elyachar theorizes a global condition...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478031905
• ISBN13: 9781478031901
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.