On Barak
Biographic Data
| ID | 5443269 |
|---|---|
| NAME | On Barak |
| GIVEN NAMES | On |
| FAMILY NAME | Barak |
| SIGNATURE | BARAK O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Infrastructures of Minoritization
Figurations of body, community, and politics traversed India and the Ottoman world along the artificial coaling archipelago that connected both via legal islands of extraterritoriality and other technologies in the Red Sea. Examining this system and the ethnic groups that operated and subverted it reveals how minority formation and other forms of making community and autonomy were linked to processes of anatomization and a rearticulation of ideas…
Powering Empire
Archives and/as battlefields
For a short window of time between the deposition of Hosni Mubarak and the resumption of authoritarianism, Egyptian archives have become turbulent arenas in the struggle for governmental transparency and for democratic politics. This essay examines how attempting to access historical records pertaining to the Arab-Israeli 1973 war—arguably the most significant event reinforcing the reign of the Free Officers and their acolytes and a moment that e…
Gridlock Politics
Anwar Sadat's “open door” policy involved the forceful promotion of an American-inspired car society. This essay traces the development of Egypt's motorscape by recounting the first eight decades of automobility in Egypt. Focusing on the 1970s, it suggests that the increasing number of vehicles on the road and consequent congestion were the result, and apparently also the driving force, of politics at every level: from class and gender to geopoli…
Outsourcing
During the long 19th century, British coal proliferated throughout the Ottoman Empire in increasing quantity, rapidity, and regularity via junctions and political arrangements that became evermore stable and dominant. The British used coal export to project their power elsewhere, offshoring the Industrial Revolution by building an infrastructure that could support it overseas and connect it to existing facets of the imperial project. Examining th…
Three Watersheds in the History of Energy
The abstraction of “energy” emerged in the second third of the nineteenth century amid attempts to disentangle human, animal, hydro, and carbon powers, seeking to thereby transform them into manageable and docile forces. This simplification still animates the notion of “energy regimes,” so prevalent in analytic attempts to make sense of historical shifts involving these powers. Barak’s essay probes the development of this abstraction as well as t…
On Time
Westerners and non-Westerners alike tend to agree that the colonial and postcolonial worlds are characterized by “elastic” conceptions of time, whose origins are primordial. Such dispositions toward time, this book provocatively argues, were, in fact, a nineteenth-century creation, one that was every bit as technological and modern as their European and American temporal counterparts. Surprisingly, it was the introduction of the steamer, railway,…
Outdating
October 01 2013 Outdating: The Time of “Culture” in Colonial Egypt On Barak On Barak On Barak is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University, specializing in the social and cultural history of science and technology in non-Western settings. He is the author of several articles and two books, Names Without Faces: From Polemics to Flirtation in an Islamic Chat-Room (Almqvist & Wiksell, 2006) and …
Scraping the surface
(Product of workshop No. 7 at the 8th MRM 2007)
Outsourcing
During the long 19th century, British coal proliferated throughout the Ottoman Empire in increasing quantity, rapidity, and regularity via junctions and political arrangements that became evermore stable and dominant. The British used coal export to project their power elsewhere, offshoring the Industrial Revolution by building an infrastructure that could support it overseas and connect it to existing facets of the imperial project. Examining th…
Scraping the surface
(Product of workshop No. 7 at the 8th MRM 2007)
Three Watersheds in the History of Energy
The abstraction of “energy” emerged in the second third of the nineteenth century amid attempts to disentangle human, animal, hydro, and carbon powers, seeking to thereby transform them into manageable and docile forces. This simplification still animates the notion of “energy regimes,” so prevalent in analytic attempts to make sense of historical shifts involving these powers. Barak’s essay probes the development of this abstraction as well as t…
Archives and/as battlefields
For a short window of time between the deposition of Hosni Mubarak and the resumption of authoritarianism, Egyptian archives have become turbulent arenas in the struggle for governmental transparency and for democratic politics. This essay examines how attempting to access historical records pertaining to the Arab-Israeli 1973 war—arguably the most significant event reinforcing the reign of the Free Officers and their acolytes and a moment that e…
Outdating
October 01 2013 Outdating: The Time of “Culture” in Colonial Egypt On Barak On Barak On Barak is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University, specializing in the social and cultural history of science and technology in non-Western settings. He is the author of several articles and two books, Names Without Faces: From Polemics to Flirtation in an Islamic Chat-Room (Almqvist & Wiksell, 2006) and …
Infrastructures of Minoritization
Figurations of body, community, and politics traversed India and the Ottoman world along the artificial coaling archipelago that connected both via legal islands of extraterritoriality and other technologies in the Red Sea. Examining this system and the ethnic groups that operated and subverted it reveals how minority formation and other forms of making community and autonomy were linked to processes of anatomization and a rearticulation of ideas…
Gridlock Politics
Anwar Sadat's “open door” policy involved the forceful promotion of an American-inspired car society. This essay traces the development of Egypt's motorscape by recounting the first eight decades of automobility in Egypt. Focusing on the 1970s, it suggests that the increasing number of vehicles on the road and consequent congestion were the result, and apparently also the driving force, of politics at every level: from class and gender to geopoli…
Scraping the surface
(Product of workshop No. 7 at the 8th MRM 2007)
On Time
Westerners and non-Westerners alike tend to agree that the colonial and postcolonial worlds are characterized by “elastic” conceptions of time, whose origins are primordial. Such dispositions toward time, this book provocatively argues, were, in fact, a nineteenth-century creation, one that was every bit as technological and modern as their European and American temporal counterparts. Surprisingly, it was the introduction of the steamer, railway,…
Outdating
October 01 2013 Outdating: The Time of “Culture” in Colonial Egypt On Barak On Barak On Barak is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University, specializing in the social and cultural history of science and technology in non-Western settings. He is the author of several articles and two books, Names Without Faces: From Polemics to Flirtation in an Islamic Chat-Room (Almqvist & Wiksell, 2006) and …
Three Watersheds in the History of Energy
The abstraction of “energy” emerged in the second third of the nineteenth century amid attempts to disentangle human, animal, hydro, and carbon powers, seeking to thereby transform them into manageable and docile forces. This simplification still animates the notion of “energy regimes,” so prevalent in analytic attempts to make sense of historical shifts involving these powers. Barak’s essay probes the development of this abstraction as well as t…
Outsourcing
During the long 19th century, British coal proliferated throughout the Ottoman Empire in increasing quantity, rapidity, and regularity via junctions and political arrangements that became evermore stable and dominant. The British used coal export to project their power elsewhere, offshoring the Industrial Revolution by building an infrastructure that could support it overseas and connect it to existing facets of the imperial project. Examining th…
Archives and/as battlefields
For a short window of time between the deposition of Hosni Mubarak and the resumption of authoritarianism, Egyptian archives have become turbulent arenas in the struggle for governmental transparency and for democratic politics. This essay examines how attempting to access historical records pertaining to the Arab-Israeli 1973 war—arguably the most significant event reinforcing the reign of the Free Officers and their acolytes and a moment that e…
Gridlock Politics
Anwar Sadat's “open door” policy involved the forceful promotion of an American-inspired car society. This essay traces the development of Egypt's motorscape by recounting the first eight decades of automobility in Egypt. Focusing on the 1970s, it suggests that the increasing number of vehicles on the road and consequent congestion were the result, and apparently also the driving force, of politics at every level: from class and gender to geopoli…
Powering Empire
Infrastructures of Minoritization
Figurations of body, community, and politics traversed India and the Ottoman world along the artificial coaling archipelago that connected both via legal islands of extraterritoriality and other technologies in the Red Sea. Examining this system and the ethnic groups that operated and subverted it reveals how minority formation and other forms of making community and autonomy were linked to processes of anatomization and a rearticulation of ideas…
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