The early Egyptian army pioneered disciplinary techniques of power before civil society adopted them

Evidence

More than in other fields in the wider society, it was the army and the military institution in general that exhibited a clearer understanding of this new conception of power and it is by comparing the systems of punishment in the military and the civilian sectors that one can understand the logic that informed these new techniques of power. To see how the army differed from society at large in this respect, a number of civilian laws are compared below to a couple of military laws that were passed to regulate life in the military schools and camps. The aim of this comparison is to see how imprisonment, in particular, as the extreme case of punishment by internment, was used as a means of imposing discipline and how the military laws in general were different from civilian ones in stressing indirect, representational techniques of exhibiting power. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 692

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s stated interest in the birth of the modern Egyptian army: the army as the laboratory for modern power techniques.

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