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 traces the co-development of new public health and urban planning regimes in late 19th- and early 20th-century Egypt, arguing that they worked to construct new territorialities and social hierarchies, including racial hierarchies and gender and familial norms. It explores how interventions like burning dwellings, warehousing people in quarantine camps, and implementing new building standards functioned to surveil and police spaces and bodies that were rendered non-normative— unnatural, unhealthy, or unproductive.
Self-Determination under Occupation? Formation of the Modern Egypt, 1879–1956
Egypt, as an internationally intertwined part of the British Empire, the Arab world, the Islamic reform movement and the (post-)Ottoman space, was a meeting point of mobile actors as well as globally circulating concepts in the early 20th century. The sub-project based at the IEG investigates how global concepts of health and nationalisation policies were translated into local contexts.