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Introduction: Area Studies, Diaspora Studies, and Critical Pedagogies
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (3): 580–590.
Published: 01 December 2007
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After Area Studies: A Return to a Transnational Africa?
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1996) 16 (2): 53–61.
Published: 01 August 1996
... of Area Studies Associations, Prospects for Faculty in Area Studies (Stanford, CA: American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies): 1 –18. Berger , Mark. T. 1995 . Under Northern Eyes: Latin American Studies and US Hegemony in the Americas 1898–1990 (Bloomington, IN: Indiana...
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South Asian Area Studies in Transatlantic Dialogue
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (3): 591–600.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Nalini Natarajan © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 South Asian Area Studies
in Transatlantic Dialogue
Nalini Natarajan
he following essay reflects my engagement with South Asian area studies as an out-
sider to the field, for I am primarily a literary critic.1 I...
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American Studies as Area Studies as Transnational Studies? A European Perspective
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (3): 633–640.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Heinz Ickstadt © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 American Studies as Area Studies as
Transnational Studies? A European Perspective
Heinz Ickstadt
hat old concepts may regain vitality when put to new uses can hardly be doubted. It
is therefore...
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Transcending Area Studies: Piecing Together the Cross-Regional Networks of Ibadi Islam
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 582–589.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Amal N. Ghazal The area studies model is an impediment to the historical analysis of linkages and connections not governed by its geographical and conceptual boundaries. Its shortcomings are even more pronounced in the historiography of the modern period, when interactions and exchanges between...
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Alfalfa field in the Al Kharj area, labeled “Water in the desert, Khafs Dug...
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in Desert Geopolitics: Arizona, Arabia, and an Arid-Lands Response to the Territorial Trap
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 3. Alfalfa field in the Al Kharj area, labeled “Water in the desert, Khafs Dugarah, Saudi Arabia,” slide photograph from SU professor's visit in the 1950s. Source: George Cressey Papers, University Archives, Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries ( slide
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Abandoned building in the area of Lepida, formerly used to host psychiatric...
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in The Surplus of Death: Asylum Management and the Affective Atmosphere of Complicity
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Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 1. Abandoned building in the area of Lepida, formerly used to host psychiatric patients. The sign “Η ɛλɛυθɛρία ɛίναι θɛραπɛυτική” (Freedom is therapetic) was written by the psychiatric patients in the 1980s, a period that marked the beginning of the psychiatric reforms as well
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Abandoned building in the area of Lepida, formerly used to host psychiatric...
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in The Surplus of Death: Asylum Management and the Affective Atmosphere of Complicity
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Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 2. Abandoned building in the area of Lepida, formerly used to host psychiatric patients. The signs “Fight for your Freedom” and “Hurriya” (meaning freedom/liberty in Arabic) were written by refugees of the hot spot opposite this building. Photo by the author, July 2017.
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (3): 260–263.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Asef Bayat Bayat’s essay examines the divide between area studies and the social science disciplines. A truly productive engagement with and critical reflection on the social sciences, Bayat argues, is possible only by intimate area knowledge, wide perspectives, a comparative lens, and a search...
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Fishing in an eviscerated sea. The shaded polygons indicate some areas in w...
Available to PurchasePublished: 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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Beginning with the Mediterranean: An Introduction
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (2): 364–367.
Published: 01 August 2014
... history and the discursive bounds of area and (post)colonial studies. More recently—and ostensibly as part of a larger turn away from area studies toward comparative, transcultural, transregional, and global studies—the burgeoning field of Mediterranean studies has put this resurgent category into massive...
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The Significance of the Rediscovery of Arabs in the Malay World
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (2): 296–311.
Published: 01 August 2011
... writing in print and on the Internet, conferences, and public occasions—to be a rediscovery. The article focuses on two areas, namely, the accentuation of Arabness and the concurrent identification of Arabs as a link in what some see as a global chain of political extremism. I delve into these areas...
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Is “Region” Still Good to Think?
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (3): 264–267.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Mrinalini Sinha This essay responds to the mission statement of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East and considers the place of region in the contemporary postnational and post-area studies moment of scholarship. In particular, it examines the possibilities of leveraging...
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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
...Mikiya Koyagi Abstract This article examines the making and unmaking of an infrastructural system in the Indo-Iranian borderlands, an area that is often overlooked in an area studies paradigm. In particular, it focuses on the infrastructural network that developed following World War I...
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Postcolonial Reverberations
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (1): 195–203.
Published: 01 May 2016
... theoretical directions that the book opens up, specifically as these may enrich interdisciplinary conversations in African studies. Of particular concern is the possibility of moving beyond postcolonial theory's founding critique of area studies scholarship. Beyond theory's critique of the geopolitics...
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“Tuni’r Ma”: From Nation to “Inter”-Nation
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (3): 492–501.
Published: 01 December 2012
...., the areas in East India including Bangladesh, where Bangla is the official language. Here the history of a popular song, “Tuni’r Ma,” is used to exemplify the holistic understanding of the dynamics involved in the process of cultural reconciliation. The song leads to a discussion of aesthetics and gender...
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The Complicating Sea: The Indian Ocean as Method
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (3): 584–590.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Isabel Hofmeyr Within the academy, as transnational and oceanic forms of analysis become more prominent, the Indian Ocean attracts attention, especially as a domain that offers rich possibilities for working beyond the templates of the nation-state and area studies. The Indian Ocean makes visible...
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How War Shaped Egypt's National Bread Loaf
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (1): 49–63.
Published: 01 May 2017
... the acceleration of income inequality in rural areas and a huge increase in wheat consumption in cities. The article argues the long-term success of this regime depended on both the improvement of surveillance and coercive technocracy mediated through the military courts and the naturalization of public attitudes...
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Nationalism, Internationalism, and Cosmopolitanism: Comparison and Commensurability
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (3): 455–464.
Published: 01 December 2016
... and decolonization of the Indian subcontinent. The goal of the exercise is to use the three concepts of nationalism, internationalism, and cosmopolitanism to arrive at a new kind of comparison, and perhaps a new kind of model of power in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries for areas that were not formally...
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Money, Peasant Mobility, Çiftliks , and Local Politics in Salonika: 1740-1820
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (1): 135–146.
Published: 01 May 2014
... relations in rural areas altered both the status of different social groups and the contours of local administration in an Ottoman provincial setting. It aims to show that the new rural-urban dynamics not only shaped the political alliances and the workings of state, but also set stage for the Ottoman...
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