Volume 35 Issue 3 | Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East

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Speculation
Shahzia Sikander
The Politics of Feminist Politics
The Name of Catastrophe
Kitabkhana
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Editors' Note

Timothy Mitchell; Anupama Rao

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Speculation

Speculation: Futures and Capitalism in India

Laura Bear; Ritu Birla; Stine Simonsen Puri

Speculation Illicit and Complicit: Contract, Uncertainty, and Governmentality

Ritu Birla

Capitalist Divination: Popularist Speculators and Technologies of Imagination on the Hooghly River

Laura Bear

The Economy of Anticipation: Hope, Infrastructure, and Economic Zones in South India

Jamie Cross

Beyond Dispossession: The Politics of Commodification of Land under Speculative Conditions

Swagato Sarkar

Fuzzy Numbers: The Productive Nature of Ambiguity in the Hindi Film Industry

Tejaswini Ganti

Betting on Performed Futures: Predictive Procedures at Delhi Racecourse

Stine Simonsen Puri

Afterword: The Dreamwork of Capitalism

Arjun Appadurai

Shahzia Sikander

On Artists and Artisans: The Experimental Worlds of Shahzia Sikander

Casey Primel; Anupama Rao; Susanna Ferguson

Drawing in the Digital Field: Shahzia Sikander's The Last Post (2010)

Claire Brandon

The Politics of Feminist Politics

Introduction: The Politics of Feminist Politics

Lila Abu-Lughod

Scandals of Seduction and the Seductions of Scandal

Dina M. Siddiqi

Arab Revolutions: Legible, Illegible Bodies

Zakia Salime

Reading Malala: (De)(Re)Territorialization of Muslim Collectivities

Shenila Khoja-Moolji

Listening to Rights Talk in Damascus: Women's Rights, Human Rights, and the State in Syria, 2009–11

Susanna Ferguson

The First Lady Phenomenon: Elites, States, and the Contradictory Politics of Women's Empowerment in the Neoliberal Arab World

Mayssoun Sukarieh

Islamist Women and the Arab Spring: Discourse, Projects, and Conceptions

Merieme Yafout

Civil and the Limits of Politics in Revolutionary Egypt

Frances S. Hasso

The Name of Catastrophe

Al-Nakbah in Arab Thought: The Transformation of a Concept

Anaheed Al-Hardan

Kitabkhana

The Walking Qur'an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa

Introduction: Epistemology and Corporeality in West African Islam

Mamadou Diouf

Islam in Black and White

Robert Launay

Salafi Theology and Islamic Orthodoxy in West Africa

Zachary Wright

Dehistoricizing Islam in Africa

Wendell Hassan Marsh

Of Reciting and Reading

Souleymane Bachir Diagne

Rereading the Past, Reshaping the Present

Ousseina Dioula Alidou

Traditions of Innovation

Rudolph T. Ware, III

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