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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1999) 19 (1): 46–52.
Published: 01 May 1999
...Vladimir Shubin © 1999: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1999 Digging in the Gold Mine:
The Mayibuye Centre Archive as a Source
on the History of the South Mkican
Liberation Movement...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (2): 336–363.
Published: 01 August 2014
... the text and the image. In these works, Kahlon augments the secular archive with alternate forms of remembrance and mourning in order to make the fact of these incarcerations and deaths gain greater significance in our cultural memory. Department of Defense redacted document #57759...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 196–211.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Salma Siddique Abstract This essay examines the missing national film archive of Pakistan against the politics of competing cultural memory. Sharing a common past yet existing in the shadows of the Indian film industry, cinema in Pakistan found itself in an unusual predicament after decolonization...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 541–564.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Ateya Khorakiwala Abstract This article argues that a fantasy of Indian road infrastructure was archived in official documentary films. It analyzes two 1960s road construction projects through three corresponding Films Division of India documentaries, which represented India's northern borders...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 517–530.
Published: 01 August 2022
... between revolutions and archives in their own practice. What does it mean, in practice, to unlearn the archive? What does it mean to do so from the global periphery, the still present specter of a third world? In gesturing to a “ghost archive” and probing the imperial archive, I was trying to disrupt...
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in Archive Filmaria: Cinema, Curation, and Contagion
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 May 2019
Figure 2. Prayer break at Guddu Film Archive. Photograph by the author, 2012.
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in Archive Filmaria: Cinema, Curation, and Contagion
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 May 2019
Figure 3. Film memorabilia and photo albums at Guddu Film Archive. Photograph by the author, 2012.
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in Introduction: Architecture as a Form of Knowledge
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 December 2020
Figure 4. The Sri Lanka Archive of Contemporary Art, Architecture and Design, Jaffna, 2014. House exterior. Photo courtesy of Sri Lanka Archive of Contemporary Art, Architecture and Design.
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in Introduction: Architecture as a Form of Knowledge
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 December 2020
Figure 5. The Sri Lanka Archive of Contemporary Art, Architecture and Design, Jaffna, 2014. Reading room. Photo courtesy of Sri Lanka Archive of Contemporary Art, Architecture and Design.
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in Introduction: Architecture as a Form of Knowledge
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 December 2020
Figure 6. The Sri Lanka Archive of Contemporary Art, Architecture and Design, Jaffna, 2014. Archived materials. Photo courtesy of Sri Lanka Archive of Contemporary Art, Architecture and Design.
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in Introduction: Architecture as a Form of Knowledge
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 December 2020
Figure 7. The Sri Lanka Archive of Contemporary Art, Architecture and Design, Jaffna, 2014. Artists' books. Photo courtesy of Sri Lanka Archive of Contemporary Art, Architecture and Design.
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in Introduction: Architecture as a Form of Knowledge
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 December 2020
Figure 8. The Sri Lanka Archive of Contemporary Art, Architecture and Design, Jaffna, 2014. Announcements and pamphlets. Photo courtesy of Sri Lanka Archive of Contemporary Art, Architecture and Design.
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in Introduction: Architecture as a Form of Knowledge
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 December 2020
Figure 9. The Sri Lanka Archive of Contemporary Art, Architecture and Design, Jaffna, 2014. Interior court. Photo courtesy of Sri Lanka Archive of Contemporary Art, Architecture and Design.
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in Engaging the Archival Habitat: Architectural Knowledge and Otto Koenigsberger's Effects
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 December 2020
Figure 3. Contents of the “hidden” archive: A newspaper cutting slams the prefabricated housing project as a waste of money. Photograph by the author.
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in Engaging the Archival Habitat: Architectural Knowledge and Otto Koenigsberger's Effects
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 December 2020
Figure 4. Contents of the “hidden” archive: A letter from Amrit Kaur to Otto Koenigsberger details his dismissal from government service. Photograph by the author.
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in Decolonizing History: Algeria, Palestine, and the Movement for Migrant Rights in Postcolonial France
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 August 2022
Figure 4. Collage of photographs from the archive of the militant theater collective, Al Assifa (1972–76). At the center of the table, a photograph of the recruitment scene in “Ça travaille, ça travaille et ça ferme sa gueule,” where migrant workers don cardboard boxes bearing the names
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (1): 204–212.
Published: 01 May 2016
... assemblage of the colonial archive points to its operation at multiple registers. It is a site of contested possibility and regenerative change and it belongs to the whole world for a world otherwise. As a response to Grovogui's book, this essay argues that open-ended, multiple engagements can disrupt...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (1): 6–20.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Sherene Seikaly Seikaly’s article reflects on a decade of research, contingent, accidental, and unconsciously autobiographical, to explore archival practices and the writing of history. She recounts her experience of stumbling across family papers that carried the story of Naim Cotran as a “man...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (1): 30–42.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Gil Hochberg This essay engages with two essay-films by the Palestinian artist Jumana Manna in order to advance a conversation about the politics of the archive and the role of creative engagement with “minor archives” in generating antihegemonic, antinationalist, and off-centered memory paths...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (1): 3–5.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Lila Abu-Lughod Abu-Lughod’s piece introduces the special section “Palestine: Doing Things with Archives.” The four essays in this forum explore the challenges and possibilities of archives. They not only do what historians excel at—uncovering or illuminating past moments that reframe our...
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