TY  - CHAP
AU  - Chircop, John
AB  - This chapter investigates the setting up of a network of lazarettos along the southern and eastern littorals of the Mediterranean during the nineteenth century. The fundamental thesis is that these lazarettos, constructed and frequently directed by Europeans, sustained the expansion of Western colonialism in the region. Starting with an investigation of the workings of the first Sanitary Councils – in North Africa and Ottoman-ruled ports – which preceded the International Sanitary Conferences, the study then goes on to show how maritime quarantine catered for the European powers’ commercial, shipping and imperial interests in the region. By examining the regulations and the actual practices of disinfection adopted in these lazarettos, this chapter also shows how these institutions constructed and/or consolidated stereotypes of the ‘Muslim Arab’ as a ‘threatening contagious body.’
ID  - OAPEN ID: 645514
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1030816307
KW  - arab body
KW  - 19th century
KW  - european colonialism
KW  - muslim identity
KW  - sanitary councils
KW  - islamic mediterranean
KW  - arab body
KW  - 19th century
KW  - european colonialism
KW  - muslim identity
KW  - sanitary councils
KW  - islamic mediterranean
KW  - Arabs
KW  - Cholera
KW  - Hajj
KW  - Hejaz
KW  - Hygiene
KW  - Lazaretto
KW  - Mecca
KW  - Public health
KW  - Quarantine
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/ba62c12b-7130-4850-88b6-d70702553ce2/645514.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30515
PB  - Manchester University Press
PY  - 2018
TI  - Chapter 8 Quarantine sanitization, colonialism and the construction of the ‘contagious Arab’ in the Mediterranean, 1830s–1900null
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