Egypt's geographical tradition
The post‐independence moment and shifting regional imaginations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8963686 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aya Nassar (0000-0002-9801-1503, Durham University Durham UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/tran.70032 |
| OpenAlex | W4414072999 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 26 |
The aim of this intervention is to respond to the provocation of how different worlds and regions are imagined from the non‐west. This ‘non‐west’ is often regarded as the object of area studies, rather than an author of geographical knowledge and cannons. Egypt represents a classic example of this. The concomitant aim of this task is not to package these ‘other’ traditions as useful additions that diversify the histories of geography (as this reinforces the centrality of Anglocentric questions through an add‐and‐stir approach), but to acknowledge these traditions as evolving, and possibly problematic but always already in conversation with worldly intellectual and geopolitical traditions. To do this from the vantage point of Egypt, I start with the specific moment of post‐independence to show how it was complex and imbricated in intellectual inheritances, shifting geopolitical orders, national revisions of worldly orientations and geopolitical ambitions. For many, an Egyptian regional geographic imagination finds its bedrock in the post‐independence moment. It was at this time that Egypt, as an anticolonial world actor, sought to redefine its geopolitical global and regional commitments. Indeed, the post‐independence moment saw a strong and forceful regional geographical imagination and praxis, in politics as well as in intellectual geography
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |