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Women's Causes in Spozhmai Zaryab's Narrative Works
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (2): 260–272.
Published: 01 August 2008
...Faridullah Bezhan © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Women’s Causes in Spozhmai Zaryab’s
Narrative Works
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The Indian Nuclear Tests: Causes, Consequences and Portents
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1998) 18 (1): 52–63.
Published: 01 May 1998
...Achin Vanaik © 1998: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1998 REFRAMING POLITICAL DEBATES
The Indian Nuclear Tests:
Causes, Consequences and Portents
Achin Vanaik
On May 11, 1998 India became the sixth entrant...
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On the State of the Humanities in Taiwan
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (1): 177–180.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Fan-sen Wang This article discusses various aspects of the current status of the humanities in Taiwan. First, the “indicator frenzy” that has prevailed in East Asia over the past twenty years has caused a major problem in humanities in Taiwan's academia. Second, in the past twenty years...
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Anointing with Rubble: Ruins in the Lebanese War Novel
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (1): 50–60.
Published: 01 May 2008
... preempted secular and Cold War imperatives. For literature, wartime chaos punctured the myth of progress and along with it realist literature predicated on a knowable world. After a half century of serving the Arab cause, realism became an overnight anachronism and from its grip emerged the Lebanese war...
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A Divine Madness: The Secret Language of Trauma in the Novels of Bessie Head and Calixthe Beyala
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (1): 93–108.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Caroline Brown “A Divine Madness: The Secret Language of Trauma in the Novels of Bessie Head and Calixthe Beyala” examines Head's A Question of Power and The Sun Hath Looked upon Me , by Beyala. In both novels, trauma serves as a metaphor for the disruption caused by gendered and/or racialized...
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Ideology and Political Action in the Iranian Revolution
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (1): 53–68.
Published: 01 May 2011
... and challengers that participated in the revolutionary process. It concludes that although segments of Iranian intellectuals and students fought for an Islamic government, the vast majority of the Iranian people never fought for a theocracy, established by Khomeini and his allies. The causes, processes...
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Secularism and the Iranian Militant Left: Political Misconception or Cultural Issues?
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (1): 85–93.
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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Egyptian Views of Ottoman Rule: Five Historians and Their Works, 1820–1920
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (1): 149–163.
Published: 01 May 2011
... (which preceded the Ottomans) is related to Egypt's identity in these works, how the Ottomans are positioned in the flow of Egyptian and Islamic history, and how their conquest and rule over Egypt is characterized. The article also reviews these authors' reflections on the causes of Ottoman “decline...
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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
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 24–36.
Published: 01 May 2019
... returns to a South African metaphor—Thabo Mbeki's “two economies” thesis—focused on the problem of poverty, its causes, and the governmental approach to combating it. This discussion shows how the work of Partha Chatterjee helps us understand the governmental problems Mbeki's representations reframe...
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The Price of Blood: Counterinsurgency, Precarity, and the Moral Discourse of Loyalty in Kashmir
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 166–179.
Published: 01 May 2020
... of causing her husband's death. The woman's decision accompanied moral turmoil in her village, and rumors of her “betrayal” circulated. However, the turmoil threatened to go beyond this localized setting. It brought to fore the fraught implications of “loyalty” shaped by India's occupation in Kashmir, its...
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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
... resemblance, and embodied cultural memory, a condition caused by the displacements of Partition and the creation of national difference. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 filmaria Pakistan archives Guddu Film Archives Nigar Weekly Pak Films South Asian cinema intercultural cinema...
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Introduction: Port Environments in South Asia
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 81–85.
Published: 01 May 2024
.... They generate debates about the future of the world, where futures of economic growth through technological revolutions in shipping and logistics clash with ecological collapse caused by such mega-infrastructures on already vulnerable coastlines. This interdisciplinary special section, “Port Environments...
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South Korean Labor and Infrastructure in Saudi Arabia during the Late Cold War
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 471–484.
Published: 01 December 2023
... from the Saudi elite in finding alternative non-Western partners and in leveraging oil to promote the Palestinian cause in East Asia; and the preexisting ties between Korean business actors and their Saudi counterparts. Such migration infrastructure included direct transplantation of militarized...
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The Means and Ends of Empire
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 604–610.
Published: 01 December 2014
... assessment of the causes and chronology of British imperial collapse, and it challenges his claim that the United States entered a similar stage of inexorable decline in the 1970s. It notes that the preoccupation with imperial decline often says more about the political and intellectual anxieties of its...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 36–50.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Biriz Berksoy Abstract This article explores the sociopolitical causes behind the proliferation of the apparatuses of denunciation in Turkey in the 2010s, and the escalation in the number of citizens denouncing their fellow citizens. These developments have taken place within an international...
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The Black Winter of 1860–61: War, Famine, and the Political Ecology of Disasters in Qajar Iran
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (1): 24–48.
Published: 01 May 2017
... and the Middle East in the nineteenth century. He contends that the causes of the 1860–61 famine were a series of interlocking issues that had affected the political economy of the Qajar state. The longer-term economic and political developments in the run-up to the crisis had an important role in setting up...
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Experience and Dalit Theory
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (3): 398–402.
Published: 01 December 2013
... and other marginalized groups to play the role of a new generation of scholars committed not only to scholarship but also to social causes. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 References Dirks Nicholas B. Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India . Delhi : Permanent...
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Marcus Garvey's Speech to the U.n.i.a. on the Occasion of Gandhi's Arrest, March 1922
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1985) 5 (2): 35–38.
Published: 01 August 1985
... as follows News
organized stirrings of anti-colonialism in the countries of has come to us that India's great leader, Mahatma Gandhi,
Asia, Africa and the Caribbean. In this broad context, the has been arrested for advocating the cause of 380,000,000
Indian nationalist movement launched by the Indian...
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Global Revolution Starts with Palestine: The Japanese Red Army's Alliance with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 358–369.
Published: 01 December 2023
... to jump-start global revolution, as it represented in their literature the culmination of capitalist and imperialist contradictions. The JRA linked the Palestinian resistance movement against imperialism to other concurrent causes in Asia such as protests in Japan, the Vietnam War, the Cultural Revolution...
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Embodying Solidarity in the Heart of Empire
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 182–187.
Published: 01 May 2024
..., many of them became revolutionaries espousing the very causes they were meant to negate, affiliating generally with the Left. In 1979, thousands of these students went back to Iran, participating in its great social and political revolution. Ironically, the success of that revolution marked...
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