Marianne Dhenin
Member of the academic staff, collaborative project HISDEMAB
Time at IEG: 2020-2024
Research projects:
Hygienic Enclosure and the Construction of Modern Egypt, 1883–1936
This project traced the co-development of new public health and urban planning regimes in late 19th- and early 20th-century Egypt, arguing that they have worked to construct new territorialities and social hierarchies, including racial hierarchies and gender and familial norms. It explored how interventions like burning dwellings, warehousing people in quarantine camps, and implementing new building standards functioned to surveil and police spaces and bodies that have been rendered non-normative— unnatural, unhealthy, or unproductive.
Self-Determination under Occupation? Formation of the Modern Egypt, 1879–1956
Ägypten war als international verflochtener Teil des britischen Empires, der arabischen Welt, der islamischen Reformbewegung und des (post-)osmanischen Raumes ein Treffpunkt mobiler Akteure sowie global zirkulierender Konzepte im frühen 20. Das am IEG angesiedelte Teilprojekt untersucht, wie globale Konzepte der Gesundheits- und Nationalisierungspolitik in lokale Kontexte übersetzt wurden.