Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity

By Timothy Mitchell. 2002

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The Origins of Fossil Capital: From Water to Steam in the British Cotton Industry* (2013, neutral): “Mitchell 2011, pp. 12–15; compare p. 238; Mitchell 2002.”
Producing the Climate: States, Scientists, and the Constitution of Global Governance Objects (2016, background): “Latour 1987; Mitchell 2002.”
How to Read the Future: The Yield Curve, Affect, and Financial Prediction (2009, background): “In particular, Timothy Mitchell (1998, 2002) and Janet Roitman (2004) have argued that economic technologies like the yield curve make the economy and its future visible, intelligible, and governable.”
Territorialization, enclosure and neoliberalism: non-state influence in struggles over Madagascar's forests (2011, background): “The implications of this form of ‘rule of experts’ (Mitchell 2002) are as serious as they are new.”
Economization, part 1: shifting attention from the economy towards processes of economization (2009, background): “National governments and international organizations, usually advised by economists, play an essential role in managing selection (Babb, 2001; Mitchell, 2002; Valdes, 1995).”
The incursions of extractivism: moving from dispersed places to global capitalism (2019, neutral): “These no longer appear primarily in the form of a central power intervening to initiate change, but as local practices of regulation, policing and coercion that [ … .] are themselves a site of struggle and reversal ’ (Mitchell 2002, 167 – 168; italics added).”
Do economists make policies? On the political effects of economics (2014, background): “Rarely can it be shown to matter at the level of realigning electoral politics, for example, thoughwork like Mitchell (2002) does make the case that political consequences can be quite broad.”
The Anthropology of Credit and Debt (2010, background): “Even outside a classic colonial power structure, others have highlighted the colonizing capacity that results from clashing regimes of credit/debt or the international movement of gifts (Gregory 1997, Mandel & Humphrey 2002, Mitchell 2002, Pedersen 2002, Rausing 1997).”
Everyday tactics and spaces of power: the role of informal economies in post-Soviet Ukraine (2008, background): “This disengagement with the informal is obviously not going to occur as people need to operate in this manner in order to survive, thus as Mitchell (2002) points out, the discourse of the dominance of the market economy remains unchallenged at a state level.”
Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land (2013, background): “…post-colonial art of government is embodied in scientific experts (Buckley, 2013: 429–450) who provide expertise and infrastructure (Grandia, 2013: 233–260), creating a ‘technocracy’ that disciplined individuals to internalize, accept and perpetuate the conditions of their rule (Mitchell, 2002).”