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Punjabi Immigration to California in the Context of Capitalist Development

Sucheta Mazumdar
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1982) 2 (1): 19–28.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-2-1-19
Published: 01 May 1982
... Immigration and Exclusion” Labor Immigration Under Capitalism (in press) Berkeley: University of California Press 1982 “U.S. Capitalist Development” Labor Immigration Under Capitalism (in press) Berkeley: University of California Press California Fruit Grower 1907 XXXVI. August 24 Calvert...
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The Limits of Maneuver: Caribbean States, Small Farmers and the Capitalist World Economy, 1940s–1995

Michaeline A. Crichlow
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1997) 17 (1): 81–98.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-17-1-81
Published: 01 May 1997
...Michaeline A. Crichlow © 1997: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa &amp; the Middle East 1997 The Limits of Maneuver: Caribbean States, Smal Farmers and the Capitalist World Economy, 1940s-1995 Michaeline A. Crichlow Most...
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Capitalist Divination: Popularist Speculators and Technologies of Imagination on the Hooghly River

Laura Bear
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 408–423.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-3426265
Published: 01 December 2015
... been dominant. Instead this article draws on the anthropology of divination to argue that capitalist action is provoked by technologies of the imagination that generate speculation. These issues are explored in the context of changing forms of governance of the Hooghly riverine economy by bureaucrats...
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Rethinking Postcolonial Capitalist Development: A Conversation between Kalyan Sanyal and Partha Chatterjee

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (1): 102–111.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-3482147
Published: 01 May 2016
... “Rethinking Postcolonial Capitalist Development” is a conversation between the political theorist and historian Partha Chatterjee and Kalyan Sanyal (1951–2012), author of Rethinking Capitalist Development: Primitive Accumulation, Governmentality, and Postcolonial Capitalism . In this interview...
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Jotirao Phule’s Satyashodh and the Problem of Subaltern Consciousness

Dominic Vendell
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (1): 52–66.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-2648569
Published: 01 May 2014
... be produced out of the variegated conditions of domination and subordination of capitalist modernity in the non-West. The educator and social reformer Jotirao Phule encountered similar issues in his efforts to transform lower-caste consciousness in late nineteenth-century colonial Maharashtra. Phule...
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Modernizing Peasants and “Master Farmers”: Progressive Agriculture in Early Independent India

Benjamin Siegel
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (1): 64–85.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-3821309
Published: 01 May 2017
... productivity would require an inequitable concentration of inputs, progressive farmers emerged as “bullock capitalists,” a demand group that would transform national politics but do little for the aims of equity and rural development. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 India agriculture Green...
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Imperialism, the State, and Ngos: Middle Eastern Contexts and Contestations

Nahla Abdo
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (2): 238–249.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-2010-010
Published: 01 August 2010
... or the result of external, more specifically, capitalist imperialist interest and pressures in the region, hence serving foreign agendas. At the macro level, questions are raised concerning the role of NGOs vis-à-vis the project of nation and state building, that is, whether this phenomenon plays a positive...
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Secularism and the Iranian Militant Left: Political Misconception or Cultural Issues?

Peyman Vahabzadeh
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (1): 85–93.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-2010-055
Published: 01 May 2011
... that a stark political dualism between the people and the shah's regime and its capitalist supporters caused the militant Left to advance a certain political binarism that later paved the way for the 1979 Islamic revolution, a phenomenon that indicates how the Left lost sight of the perils of political Islam...
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The Politics and Ideology of Urban Development in Iraq’s Oil City: Kirkuk, 1946–58

Arbella Bet-Shlimon
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (1): 26–40.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-2072703
Published: 01 May 2013
... worked for this foreign-owned enterprise, leading to labor organization and interventions by the company in order to promote capitalist ideals. Second, the fact that the oil industry had greater access to resources and materials than the Kirkuk municipality allowed the IPC to spearhead housing, water...
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Introduction: State and Society: Neither Lovers nor Haters

Berna Turam, Monica M. Ringer
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (3): 353–359.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-2009-023
Published: 01 December 2009
... the secularist discontent peak at a time when Muslim actors in Turkey seem to have secularized and integrated into the secular polity and capitalist market? The answer lies in the shifting patterns of interaction between the secular state and Muslim actors. While Islamists abandoned their radical edge...
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The Synergy between Neoliberalism and Communitarianism: “Erdoğan's Third Way”

Marcie J. Patton
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (3): 438–449.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-2009-030
Published: 01 December 2009
... that accommodates Islamist values while privileging the neoliberal capitalist economic order. Duke University Press 2009 The Synergy between Neoliberalism and Communitarianism: “Erdo˘gan’s Third Way” Marcie J...
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World as Commodity: Or, How the “Third World” Became an “Emerging Market”

Ravinder Kaur
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (2): 377–395.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-6982145
Published: 01 August 2018
.... The world-as-commodity captures and encloses entire territories to be transformed into branded sites of unlimited commodification and exchange and actualize the capitalist dream of unending growth. A world grasped and imagined in commodity form is what eventually can be put at the disposal of investors...
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The Two Economies, Primitive Accumulation, and the Government of the State: or, Reflecting on the Politics of the Governed from South Africa

Ahmed Veriava
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 24–36.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-7493744
Published: 01 May 2019
..., with implications for how we think about the state, its relationship to capitalist development, and the political practices of subaltern classes. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 popular sovereignty governmentality primitive accumulation political society Thabo Mbeki This article...
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The Visual Economy of “Precious Books”: Publishing, Modern Art, and the Design of Arabic Books

Zeina Maasri
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 95–114.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-8186104
Published: 01 May 2020
..., and the political economy of transnational Arabic publishing in late 1960s Beirut. Relations between these three fields are analyzed through a multifaceted lens, focusing on the book as at once a product of intellectual and artistic practice, a commodity in a capitalist economy of publishing, and a translocal...
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Speculation: Futures and Capitalism in India

Laura Bear, Ritu Birla, Stine Simonsen Puri
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 387–391.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-3426241
Published: 01 December 2015
... emerging market and dense arena of capitalist promise and failure, provides the foundations for our approach. The speculative practices we focus on challenge the distinction between formal and informal, the licit and illicit, because they fuel rationalized market regimes, as well as worlds of precarity...
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Speculation Illicit and Complicit: Contract, Uncertainty, and Governmentality

Ritu Birla
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 392–407.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-3426253
Published: 01 December 2015
... by colonial authorities and vernacular capitalists, a process that informs histories of and dynamics across the colonial rule of law, the idea of informality, and neoliberal thought. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 contract colonialism futures markets gambling informality neoliberalism rule...
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The Economy of Anticipation: Hope, Infrastructure, and Economic Zones in South India

Jamie Cross
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 424–437.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-3426277
Published: 01 December 2015
... the capitalist future as much as sites of speculative investment in financial futures. This essay sets out to broaden our engagement of the diverse futures invested in these large-scale industrial infrastructure projects by examining the economy of anticipation upon which they are built. © 2015 by Duke...
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The Waste-Value Dialectic: Lumpen Urbanization in Contemporary India

Vinay Gidwani, Anant Maringanti
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (1): 112–133.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-3482159
Published: 01 May 2016
...Vinay Gidwani; Anant Maringanti Capitalist value making is underwritten by the production and disposal of waste through a complex, often invisible economy of informal waste recycling. This infra-economy is anchored by nodes that process and circulate variegated forms of waste generated in cities...
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On Ottoman, British, and Belgian Monarchs' Ownership of Private Property in the Late Nineteenth Century: A Comparison

Naz Yücel
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (2): 208–223.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-10615674
Published: 01 August 2023
... of landed property as private individuals. This article not only joins the extended scholarly literature criticizing characterizations of an unproblematic capitalist “West” or “Europe” whose market society is underpinned by development of “private property” against a stagnant and undifferentiated “East...
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“A Nonexistent Incapacity”: Tracing Chronic Injury through X-Ray Images in Colonial Tunisia's Gafsa Phosphate Mines (1920s–1930s)

Rebecca Gruskin
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (2): 317–326.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-11233128
Published: 01 August 2024
... disappearance, constructing visibility and invisibility within capitalist relations of production and exploitation. Read this way, Gafsa's X-ray images ultimately outline a political economy of (in)visibility. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 X-ray photography...
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