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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 80–85.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Rachel Sturman Abstract The ubiquity of building construction in contemporary Mumbai is transforming everyday urban life and landscape. This article examines one facet of the building construction industry: its organization of labor through distinctions of skill. Distinctions among skilled...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 497–517.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Lisa Björkman This article turns ethnographic attention to the everyday practices involved in managing the ever-present possibility of water shortage in contemporary Mumbai. Drawing on research carried out in a few different neighborhoods—both popular as well as “world class”—that are supplied...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (2): 263–276.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Rachel Dwyer Ganesh is a popular deity all over India, invoked before all Hindu ceremonies as the Lord of Beginnings and Remover of Obstacles (Vighnaharta). His close association with Mumbai is well attested through the Ganapati Utsav, the Ganesh festival, not least because images of his immersion...
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Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 5. Tarballs wash up on Aksa Beach, Mumbai. April 6, 2022. Images posted on Twitter, Oil Spill Monitoring Network of India, @IndianOilSpills, April 13, 2022.
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Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 7b. Fishers from many parts of the state, and particularly the Mumbai metropolitan region, attended this meeting. Photo by Nikhil Anand.
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Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 2. Ports in a muddy creek. Mumbai's ports have been situated in relatively shallow, muddy waters of Thane Creek/Mumbai Harbor. Map by Siddharth Chitalia.
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 118–134.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Figure 5. Tarballs wash up on Aksa Beach, Mumbai. April 6, 2022. Images posted on Twitter, Oil Spill Monitoring Network of India, @IndianOilSpills, April 13, 2022. ...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 298–299.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Harris Solomon Abstract This short story set in Mumbai imagines the enduring legacies of pandemic sickness and immunity. Everyday labors, pleasures, demands, and relations must be navigated across the fault lines of health, illness, and state surveillance. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2000) 20 (1-2): 1–62.
Published: 01 August 2000
... of the Mumbai Sangh, or RSS (National Organization of Volunteers)3,
(formerly Bombay) government at the time of writing founded in 1925 in Nagpur, which functioned for sev-
(M. Joshi of the Shiv Sena) promised radical meas- eral decades without directly intervening in the politi-
ures to encourage...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 407–419.
Published: 01 December 2019
... the Indian Ocean, the siege of Mumbai, India, by armed gunmen on November 26, 2008, implicated mobility in the Indian Ocean in large-scale violence, as reports indicated that the maritime movement of weapons and people were crucial in planning these attacks. 1 Amid these events, governments and media...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2000) 20 (1-2): 88–112.
Published: 01 August 2000
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Leela Fernandes
Introduction sumer choice. Such processes have been particularly
The policies of economic liberalization, initiated in acute in metropolitan urban centers such as Mumbai
India in the 1990s,1 have been accompanied by a set (Bombay...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (1): 113–116.
Published: 01 May 2017
..., the Arab world, South Asia, and China and Taiwan, in Mumbai, India, in March of 2014.1 Our goal was to discuss the state of the humanities in the different regions; share thoughts about causes and prospects; and determine whether and if so, under what modalities to seek to undertake a larger...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 451–465.
Published: 01 December 2015
... finance, gambling, and
Mumbai, April 29, 1996. The lack of knowledge tainment and Media Industry, 3. governance have discussed how uncertainty is
that Barjatya is referring to is a consequence a generative feature of contemporary life. See...
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Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 3. Fishing in an eviscerated sea. The shaded polygons indicate some areas in which fishing is not permitted on account of oil wells, pipelines, and ship traffic in the Mumbai region. Fishing is also not permitted near the shaded oil pipelines that join these oilfields to their processing
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 466–480.
Published: 01 December 2015
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a friend of a big trainer in Mumbai, who appar- tinguish between a reality that was naturally deter-
ently owed Chipper’s friend’s brother a favor, and mined and one that was manipulated. There was
for which reason he provided him with informa- no objective future, just a future...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 437–439.
Published: 01 December 2014
... and moral ties. The city’s garbage col-
ity, or breakdown. In her article on the politics of lection operates through both a municipal labor
water supply in Mumbai, Lisa Björkman explores force and an informal system of recycling, dispos-
the way communities negotiate the ever-present ing...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 81–85.
Published: 01 May 2024
... once colonial presidencies. This means that port developments in small rural port towns like Mundra in the Gulf of Kutch, Western India, now compete with and have the potential to overshadow established ports like Mumbai, throwing up new questions for port environments in the twenty-first century...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (1): 52–66.
Published: 01 May 2014
... . In Mahatma Phule Samagra Vangmaya , edited by Keer Dhananjay Malshe S. G. , 69 – 154 . Mumbai : Maharashtra Rajya Sahitya Ani Sanskruti Mandal , 1980 . ———. Sarvajanik Satya Dharmapustak . In Mahatma Phule Samagra Vangmaya , edited by Keer Dhananjay Malshe S. G. , 357 – 458...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (1): 122–136.
Published: 01 May 2023
...-Seeking Society). Ambedkar's education was famously international, but once he returned to India in 1924, his early professional, political, and activist life was shaped by the thriving, turbulent, increasingly industrial city of Bombay (now Mumbai). Here, Ambedkar witnessed two intertwined trends...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (1): 112–133.
Published: 01 May 2016
... , 1 – 20 . New Delhi : Macmillan India , 2005 . Björkman Lisa . “Becoming a Slum: From Municipal Colony to Illegal Settlement in Liberalization-Era Mumbai.” In Contesting the Indian City: Global Visions and the Politics of the Local , edited by Shatkin Gavin , 208 – 40 . Oxford...
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