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Did You Kiss the Dead Body?: Visualizing Absence in the Archive of War
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (2): 336–363.
Published: 01 August 2014
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Did You Kiss the Dead Body?
Visualizing Absence in the Archive of War
Rajkamal Kahlon
Did you wash the dead body
Did you close both its eyes
Did you bury the body...
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Introduction: Following Absence: Plotlines of Erasure and Ruination in the Middle East and North Africa
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (2): 277–286.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Anne-Marie McManus; Nancy Y. Reynolds Abstract The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) today is an epicenter for the theorization of absence. Scholars, in efforts to counter the politics that have erased and continue to erase humans and places from the region, frequently assert the microdynamics...
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Murmurs of Presence in Objects of Absence
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (2): 352–361.
Published: 01 August 2024
...—as central objects of consideration in reflecting on how objects of absence incorporate historical and personal loss as well as continuing presence. The use of the term “objects of absence” to describe these materials points to how they are more than repositories of memory. They record, preserve, and animate...
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Race, Time, and the Petrified Subject in Algeria: Reading Frantz Fanon's Algerian Writings and Kateb Yacine's Nedjma
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (2): 287–302.
Published: 01 August 2024
... this article's relational reading across anti-Black and anti-Algerian racializations, drawing on Sylvia Wynter's concept of rhythmic reading and scholarship on comparative racialization. Petrification seeks to capture subjective absence: a modality of living as a negated subject who is excluded from the category...
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The Urbanism of Racial Capitalism: Toward a History of “Blight”
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 57–65.
Published: 01 May 2020
... of “black”—in terms of an absence of the full rights of persons, from the era of enslavement, through the era of segregation, to the present—with the political definition of “blight” in terms of an absence of full rights to property from the era of urban renewal into present-day austerity urbanism...
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Vanishing Nubia: Following Botanists in Egypt
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (2): 327–341.
Published: 01 August 2024
... and the affective responses that surface along the margins of texts to show how debate over the potential absence or extinction of a “flagship” endogenous plant coincided with two important shifts in botanical knowledge production: transitions in botany as a discipline that employed new research methodologies...
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Forgettable Black and Amazigh Bodies: Boujemâa Hebaz and the Moroccan Racial Politics of Amnesia
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (2): 303–316.
Published: 01 August 2024
... in southeast/southwest Morocco. I argue that Hebaz's case reflects a wider history of absence, disappearance, and discrimination that impacts Black Amazigh Moroccans. Hebaz straddled identities that were simply disregarded throughout the Years of Lead (1956–1999). When the Moroccan police kidnapped Hebaz...
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Absenting as a Repertoire of Action: A Demolition, a Dump, and a Garden
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (2): 342–351.
Published: 01 August 2024
... Gender Roles .” Contemporary Arab Affairs 8 , no. 4 ( 2015 ): 488 – 504 . Darwish Mahmoud . In the Presence of Absence . Translated by Sinan Antoon . Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books , 2011 . Davis Diana K. “ Introduction: Imperialism, Orientalism, and the Environment...
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Imperialism, the State, and Ngos: Middle Eastern Contexts and Contestations
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (2): 238–249.
Published: 01 August 2010
..., namely, the all-encompassing role of the “director,” the lack of a grassroots base, and the absence of accessibility to ordinary people, constitutes another concern for some activists and academics alike. These are some of the ideas explored in this article. Duke University Press 2010...
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How Newness Enters the World: The Methodology of Sheldon Pollock
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (3): 533–557.
Published: 01 December 2008
... and postcolonial theory, in spite of its seeming empirical absence from contemporary thought. Duke University Press 2008 How Newness Enters the World:
The Methodology of Sheldon Pollock
Rebecca Gould
Der ächte Historiker muss die Kraft haben, das Allbekannte zum Niegehörten umzuprägen...
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Archive Filmaria: Cinema, Curation, and Contagion
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 196–211.
Published: 01 May 2019
.... The lack of a public film repository denied Pakistan not only its colonial heritage but also the systematic preservation of its postcolonial film culture. In the absence of a state archive, what has emerged in the country is a democratic archive consisting of independent collectors, magazine proprietors...
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Drivers across the Desert: Infrastructure and Sikh Migrants in the Indo-Iranian Borderlands, 1919–31
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 375–388.
Published: 01 December 2019
..., through the case of the rise and decline of Sikh migrant communities in eastern Iran, it examines how the borderlands came into being in the absence of strong state authorities. It argues that the prosperity of Sikh migrants depended on the new infrastructural system, which in turn depended...
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“There Is Never a Peace Time, It Is Just No War Time”: Ambivalent Affective Regimes on an Indian Borderland
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 475–489.
Published: 01 December 2019
.... How do we grasp the effects of securitization on the political subjectivity of citizen-subjects in the absence of visible violence and overt political critique? This article ethnographically tracks civil-military interactions in Kargil, located on the disputed India-Pakistan borderland, to analyze...
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Theory in the Mirror of Caste
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (3): 391–397.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Rajeswari Sunder Rajan Sunder Rajan’s essay responds to Gopal Guru and Sundar Sarukkai’s book The Cracked Mirror: An Indian Debate on Experience and Theory . Its primary focus is the authors’ arguments regarding the absence of original theory in the social sciences in India, and the case they make...
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Introduction: A Critique of Eurocentrism: Then and Now
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (1): 174–177.
Published: 01 May 2016
... “Europe alone as a site of reason” with “other cultures as violent,” thus setting up “Europe as a trustee” of human civilization. The darker side of European modernity, Grovogui argues, is the tendency to ignore the subjectivity of the rest; this “absence of critical comparative studies sustains...
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The Radical Instability of the Present
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (2): 362–377.
Published: 01 August 2024
... Railway and the land it was meant to transform. Examining how railway boosters, Ottoman officials, and engineers located the region's “truth” and future in a lost past, the article argues that making this connection depended on cultivating material and discursive absence in the “ruined” present...
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Editors’ Note
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (2): 217.
Published: 01 August 2024
... decolonialized knowledge. The special section “Following Absence” explores the problem of theorizing absence in the Middle East and North Africa, which the editors, Anne-Marie McManus and Nancy Y. Reynolds, note is a site of recurrent absences, erasures, disappearances, and destruction. Rather than...
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Civil Society and Democratic Change in the Arab World: Promises and Impediments
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (3): 674–685.
Published: 01 December 2012
... a stagnating political reality, shaking o
the political lethargy characteristic of much of the region, and facilitating transition toward
democracy.
Yet the absence of a genuine democratization process in much...
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“A Nonexistent Incapacity”: Tracing Chronic Injury through X-Ray Images in Colonial Tunisia's Gafsa Phosphate Mines (1920s–1930s)
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (2): 317–326.
Published: 01 August 2024
...’ bodies—creating images that existed only for the duration of the exam and were never inscribed onto static film. Gafsa's X-ray images open important avenues for analysis precisely because of their absence from the archive. With the X-ray images in hand, one would be tempted to seek the opinions...
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Phantom Limbs, Embodied Horror, and the Afterlives of the Armenian Genocide
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 182–195.
Published: 01 May 2022
...) hauntings, an absence that simultaneously invokes a presence and calls into question our ability to know it. 14 In other words, I use phantom limbs as a theoretical shorthand for the unusual affective experiences and hauntings that defy empiricism to register how horrors of the past have left traces...
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