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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (3): 568–583.
Published: 01 December 2022
... distinction means attending to this third domain—the more-than-natural—still banished from our ontological horizons. This is especially important for any consideration of the Anthropocene, since climate crisis affects communities that do not live only in secular worlds nor abide only by secular categories...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (3): 455–472.
Published: 01 December 2018
... that the circulations that often characterize this postcolonial megacity should be thought alongside another set of circulations and flows: that of the ground itself. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 land reclamation infrastructure Anthropocene media studies coastal cities References...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 505–516.
Published: 01 August 2022
... Thought . New York : Viking Press , 1961 . Armitage David . Civil Wars: A History in Ideas . New York : Knopf , 2017 . Chakrabarty Dipesh . “ Anthropocene Time .” History and Theory 57 , no. 1 ( 2018 ): 5 – 32 . Chakrabarty Dipesh . The Climate of History...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (2): 199.
Published: 01 August 2015
... animal morality, to the ethics and politics of killing animals for meat, to con-
temporary concerns about monkeys and their movements in the Central Himalayas. As with our earlier
focus on the nonhuman, this issue expands the question of the anthropocene beyond the more familiar
associations...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (2): 231–232.
Published: 01 August 2019
... social action around environmental concerns in the age of the anthropocene. Next we turn to a set of essays that appear in our section “Intimacy and Extimacy,” where the authors consider the power of discourses and practices of social intimacy when confronted with forms of violence and domination...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (2): 327–341.
Published: 01 August 2024
... Deyo's call for “indwelling with tragedy” to create “ecological sensibilities and ethical orientations that are adequate to the demands of the Anthropocene,” 100 Ashlee Consolo Wilcox draws on Derrida and Butler to argue that mourning has the potential to be “a potent ethical and political force,” one...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (3): 561–567.
Published: 01 December 2022
... to keep the supernatural at bay, even though it is an inextricable part of the textile of the worlds they represent. The work of Amitav Ghosh offers a particularly striking manifestation of these constraints. As a novelist of climate fiction seeking to get the full measure of the Anthropocene...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 118–134.
Published: 01 May 2024
... attention to the slow violence through which the sea is being emptied and filled in the Anthropocene, 10 to make time spaces predictable and legible for capitalism's engines—oil and logistics—to flourish in port environments. This is a historical process of colonization—a colonization that continues...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 3–17.
Published: 01 May 2024
... of the Anthropocene and its species-level vision of combusted hydrocarbons and an altered earth. Scholars like Jason W. Moore, Donna Haraway, and others have troubled that narrative, looking instead for the particular histories by which widespread environmental change has been made. 22 This article attends to one...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (2): 277–286.
Published: 01 August 2024
... for absence in their writings and methods. Their resulting attention to neglected plot points of absence between Morocco and Iraq echoes the spirit of Donna J. Haraway's “staying with the trouble”—a refusal of “impatient” responses to “the horrors of the Anthropocene and the Capitalocene” and of cynical...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 81–85.
Published: 01 May 2024
... Peter . The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945 . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2016 . Sinha Pradip . Calcutta in Urban History . Calcutta : Firma KLM , 1978 . ...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 17–23.
Published: 01 May 2020
... and other outdoor activities within these domes, as air is constantly monitored and purified. For many, inhabiting the urban Anthropocene is coterminous with breathing toxic air. While the industrializing urban regions of the Western world were the epicenters of air pollution in the nineteenth...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (2): 233–240.
Published: 01 August 2019
..., in the Anthropocene Age, be a vehicle for both environmental and social health. I put forward this thesis for consideration as the fruit of my twenty-seven years of working with weaving families in the handloom cotton cloth industry in India, particularly of my current involvement, the Malkha enterprise, which...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (3): 584–602.
Published: 01 December 2022
... to animism that indigenous relational ontologies, which resist the strictures of monotheism and rational sciences, “are increasingly held out as our best hope for living in the ruins of capitalism, climate change, and the Anthropocene.” 49 Citing several scholars, such as Darryl Wilkinson and David Harvey...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (2): 222–231.
Published: 01 August 2015
... anthropocen- Turath, 2000.
trism, Derrida suggests instead making room for Hamdani, Abbas. “Religious Tolerance in the Rasa’il Ikh-
the other “I.” This may not be a speaking subject, wan al-Safa .” In Adaptations and Innovations: Studies on
but it is one...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 171–183.
Published: 01 May 2019
... an Ontological Politics of Heritage in the Anthropocene .” Heritage and Society 8 , no. 1 ( 2015 ): 24 – 42 . Hawkes Jacquetta . Mortimer Wheeler: Adventurer in Archaeology . London : Weidenfield and Nicolson , 1982 . Heritage Foundation . Build Back Safer with Vernacular Methodologies...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (1): 156–172.
Published: 01 May 2015
... humans and animals
as distinct, but that nevertheless brought them together as material remains.
The turn to the nonhuman apparent in the essays assembled here comes at a particular juncture.
First, there is an increasing awareness of the Anthropocene...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (2): 287–302.
Published: 01 August 2024
... of the Anthropocene , edited by Gan Elaine , Tsing Anna , Swanson Heather , and Bubandt Nils , 157 – 67 . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2017 . Robcis Camille . Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France . Chicago : University...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (3): 603–619.
Published: 01 December 2022
... appearance and eventual vanishing of the dew—day after day, season after season—undoes the centrality of anthropocentric destiny, both in the invocations of the Anthropocene and human mastery. 99 At the end of the poem, the dew itself becomes the condition of (im)possibility for glimpsing Guru Nanak...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (2): 204–221.
Published: 01 August 2015
... a proper decenters the anthropocentrism that, in no small
relationship with the earth and its life-forms.”54 measure, has got us to the age of planetary insta-
In contrast to Leopold’s simultaneous im- bility that we now know as the Anthropocene. They
mersion...
