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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1992) 12 (2): 57–69.
Published: 01 August 1992
..., 28 –31. DeVilliers , Rend , 1980 . ‘South African Politics: the Rising Tide of Colour,’ in Ellen Hellman and Henry Lever, eds., Race Relations in South Africa 1929–1979 , London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 28 –54. Drew , Allison , 1991a . ‘Social Mobilization and Racial Capitalism...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (1): 11–26.
Published: 01 May 2021
... the Cold War superpower confidently guiding its impact, it appears here as an intimate part of an African-managed infrastructure of political exile. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 Gwambe's move to Ghana opened a path for Soviet and other Eastern bloc aid. Indeed, his time in Accra...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (1): 177–182.
Published: 01 May 2016
... Grovogui African political thought References Adu Boahen Albert , ed. The Role of African Student Movements in the Political and Social Evolution of Africa from 1900 to 1975 . Paris : Unesco , 1994 . Amin Samir . A Life Looking Forward: Memoirs of an Independent Marxist . New...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 455–468.
Published: 01 December 2021
.... But after India left its post in Salisbury in 1965, Indian public rhetorical support for African nationalist movements in Rhodesia was not matched by its private support for British settlement plans that were largely opposed by the leading African political parties in the country, colored by private...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 401–406.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Richard Drayton Frederick Cooper's Citizenship between Nation and Empire: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945–1960 is a masterwork on the high politics of the end of the French empire in Africa. His elucidation of the attempts by some African political leaders to find a path out of colonial...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 3–7.
Published: 01 May 2019
... governmentality and the diverse practices of political society on the continent today. The vivid ways in which various African states have combined and/or moved between liberal and authoritarian modalities of power, attended to biopolitical concerns while also exercising strong coercive force, and dealt...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (1): 174–177.
Published: 01 May 2016
... activist scholars at a time when the French Republic had collapsed under the Nazi assault and the African colonized elite was in revolt, intellectually and politically. Mahmood's introduction is followed by an assessment of the Grovogui's book by a number of scholars...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 49–62.
Published: 01 May 2019
... bearers of different political parties (especially the ruling African National Congress). Popular protest for basic goods and services, negrophobic and xenophobic 4 violence against lower-income migrants, and deadly competition for party and municipal positions are all distinct phenomena...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 532–537.
Published: 01 August 2022
... radicals sought an African-grounded sovereignty, an alternate future now forgotten. jesse.w.shipley@dartmouth.edu Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 coup d’état Ghana neo-imperialism revolution sovereignty African politics Between 1979 and 1983 soldiers, workers...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (2): 155–170.
Published: 01 August 2009
... of the African renaissance have been driven as much by Afro-optimism as by Afro-pessimism, by both the positive and the negative political and economic changes that have taken place in postcolonial Africa. The essay is divided into four parts. It begins with a brief survey of the resurgence of the idea...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (1): 2–10.
Published: 01 May 2021
..., these articles recover a global entanglement that was energized by unbounded political, economic, and technological aspiration, but that produced an uneven material footprint in newly independent African states. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 Africa the Soviet Union Cold War socialism...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (1): 27–40.
Published: 01 May 2021
... perspective on Soviet-African connections as explicit claims regarding women's political and civic rights occupied a central place in socialism, in conceptions of modernity, and in nationalist organizing across the African continent. Socialist states and national movements both sought the participation...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 8–23.
Published: 01 May 2019
..., liberal, and legal-juridical conceptions of citizenship and political practice are ineffective analytics in the context of Africanization efforts and racialized expulsion in Uganda; and (2) the tendency to erase people of South Asian descent from the study of normative state-society relations...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (1): 61–77.
Published: 01 May 2008
... tend to constitute and perpetuate the social and political death of the African citizen to build Western communities of humanitarianist sentiment. In contrast, Odenbach's installation presents a rare exception to this tendency in that it refuses an immediate access to and consumption of the displayed...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 24–36.
Published: 01 May 2019
... of Johannesburg and Orange Farm .” PhD diss., University of KwaZulu-Natal , School of Development Studies , 2009 . Naidoo Prishani . “ Struggles around the Commodification of Daily Life in South Africa .” Review of African Political Economy 34 , no. 111 ( 2007 ): 57 – 66 . Netshitenzhe...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (1): 133–146.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Litheko Modisane This essay examines the public life of the South African film Mapantsula (1988), an overtly antiapartheid engagé film about a petty gangster in the context of the 1980s political unrest in South African townships, from the moment of the film's inception to the history of its...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (2): 256–262.
Published: 01 August 2016
... : Duke University Press , 2015 . Mamdani Mahmood . Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 1996 . Mbembe Achille . “Achille Mbembe on the State of South African Political Life.” Africa...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (2): 354–360.
Published: 01 August 2015
... the striking themes of this study are slow reading, which Hofmeyr works out at length, and Gandhi's racial prejudices toward Africans at a time when Africans' own political activism was developing in parallel with those of Gandhi, within a context of the militarized consolidation of white power. Slow reading...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1999) 19 (1): 66–82.
Published: 01 May 1999
... and Habib. Work in Progress , 74 (May): 25 –28. Davidson , B. , and A. Bronda. 1980 . Crossroads in Africa . London: Spokesman. Davies , R. , and D. O'Meara. 1984 . “The Workers' Struggle in South Africa: A comment.” Review of African Political Economy , 30 : 109 –116. Desai...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (3): 477–483.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Aduke Grace Adebayo Adebayo’s article examines the diffcult road that African literature had to take toward becoming acceptable in its own right between the 1930s and the 1950s. In the 1960s, after political independence in most African states, African literature found a central place in world...