Emilie Pasquier

PhD candidate
Urban hydraulic infrastructures, History of contemporary Egypt, Environmental history, Economic history, Informal imperialism

My thesis examines the drinkable water and wastewater pipes in Egyptian cities from the beginning of the 19th century to 1956. This study is at the crossroads between economic and environmental history, and aims to show what economic interests are at work in the transformation of Egyptian urban environments. The aim of this research is to put the Egyptian infrastructures in the context of the imperial economic networks that underlie them, and to understand hw a natural resource, water, becomes a financial one. In that sens, I am interested in the history of the companies managing these urban infrastructures, and in the careers of French, English and Egyptian engineers and businessmen in competition for this new water market.

Publication

Conferences and symposia

Awards

  • Prix Ithaque-Marquet du mémoire d'histoire économique, novembre 2021.
  • Bourse conjointe du Réseau Universitaire de Chercheurs en Histoire Environnementale (RUCHE) et de l'Association française d'histoire économique (AFHE), novembre 2020.

Supervision of PhD Thesis

David Todd and Giacomo Parrinello

"Water, networks and capital: A history of urban water infrastructure in Egypt (1817-1956)"

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