TY - JOUR
T1 - Head-hunters and knowledge-gatherers
T2 - Colonialism, engineers and fields of planning
AU - Shamir, Ronen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2018/8/8
Y1 - 2018/8/8
N2 - An archival reconstruction of a 1930s engineering expedition to study the hydro-electric potential of the River Nile explores the investigative modalities of engineers. Contributing to an evolving anthropology of infrastructure and electricity the paper offers a material/relational analysis of an engineering field of planning and explores the relationship between ways of seeing and the drive to quantify (commensuration). Contributing to the study of colonialism, the paper finds that the engineering methods brought the African population into view either as a labour force or as politically troublesome but not as potential consumers of electricity.
AB - An archival reconstruction of a 1930s engineering expedition to study the hydro-electric potential of the River Nile explores the investigative modalities of engineers. Contributing to an evolving anthropology of infrastructure and electricity the paper offers a material/relational analysis of an engineering field of planning and explores the relationship between ways of seeing and the drive to quantify (commensuration). Contributing to the study of colonialism, the paper finds that the engineering methods brought the African population into view either as a labour force or as politically troublesome but not as potential consumers of electricity.
KW - East Africa
KW - Engineers
KW - anthropology of electricity
KW - colonialism
KW - hydropower
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85047319625&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/02757206.2018.1474352
DO - 10.1080/02757206.2018.1474352
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AN - SCOPUS:85047319625
SN - 0275-7206
VL - 29
SP - 469
EP - 492
JO - History and Anthropology
JF - History and Anthropology
IS - 4
ER -