TY - BOOK AU - Callon,Michel AU - Mellott,Noal TI - Egypt and the experts PY - 2010///. N1 - 5 N2 - Reading Timothy Mitchell’s abrasive Rule of experts: Egypt, techno-politics, modernity forces us to change our way of looking at development policies, experts from international organizations, the social sciences, Egypt’s history following independence... Everything is interrelated; nothing is neutral. Mosquitos are more dangerous than tanks; the system of land tenure is a war machine; cartography underlies the economy; the CIA manipulates anthropology; “Egyptian peasants” have been invented simply to justify the West’s “mission” in the Mid-East. To obtain a clearer view, we must decompartmentalize the social sciences and draw the natural sphere closer to the social one, and technology closer to politics UR - https://shs.cairn.info/revue-gerer-et-comprendre1-2010-2-page-82?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -