Egyptian reforms worked on bodies and space at a minute physical scale

Evidence

Drawing heavily on Foucault’s work and especially on his Discipline and Punish, Mitchell shows how so many of these “reforms” were informed by ideas of power, order and progress that worked on physical bodies and material space in a minute, exact and meticulous manner, exhibiting what Foucault called disciplinary, microphysical power. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 652