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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 86–103.
Published: 01 May 2024
... into a singularly tidal space, creating the conditions for the development of a large-scale, high-technology shipping port. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 ports ecologies coastal landscapes Indian Ocean infrastructure The Mundra Port on the northern...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 368–390.
Published: 01 August 2017
... Vumba.” In Materializing Colonial Encounters: Archaeologies of African Experience , edited by Richard François G. , 155 – 75 . New York : Springer , 2015 . ———. “It's What You Do with It That Counts: Performed Identities in the East African Coastal Landscape.” Journal of Social...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 104–117.
Published: 01 May 2024
... and fluid landscape. Therefore, meanings of protection changed. Until the beginning of the nineteenth century, protection afforded significant avenues for littoral societies to build alliances and thereby assert and share coastal guardianship. In the absence of territorial and sovereign jurisdiction over...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 164–166.
Published: 01 May 2024
... of the dynamism of historical change and transformation. 2 In our climate-changed world, the urban coasts are being reshaped through the encroaching sea, the collapse of marine environments, and the politics emerging in a landscape where certain coastal livelihoods are undergoing critical transformations...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 355–367.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Prita Meier This article examines what happens to objects once they stop being mobile and come to rest on specific bodies and in specific buildings. The material landscape of Indian Ocean port cities, including their mosques, merchant mansions, and even the houses of people who are not powerful...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 135–147.
Published: 01 May 2024
... to sixteen in 1914. The industrial transformation of South Asia's port landscape was spread around a number of ports during a vast reorganization of coastal economies and environments. In 1820, villages within a one- or two-day walk from ports included weaving communities that produced most...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 118–134.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Nikhil Anand; Lalitha Kamath Abstract Contemporary infrastructure projects in the sea reterritorialize port environments, continuously discarding historic occupants and coastal occupations in their wake. In this article the authors dwell on the ongoing histories through which fish and fishers...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (2): 176–190.
Published: 01 August 2023
... of audio and video, shipping agents, and contemporary periodicals, the article resurrects a history of confluence of media technologies, ocean movement, and coastal media markets. Through tracing such practices and the infrastructural narratives of the dhow, this article argues for a history of film...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 81–85.
Published: 01 May 2024
... of a country's geopolitical aspirations. Port constructions engineer rigid boundaries between land and sea, rendering coastlines vulnerable to sea-level rise. Port operations generate effluents from imports like coal and oil that contaminate coastal environments, with devastating consequences for ecologies...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (2): 396–411.
Published: 01 August 2018
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, “ Mining and Sacred Landscapes of Eastern India .” In Heritage in Asia: Converging...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (2): 328–343.
Published: 01 August 2019
...), constructed after defeating the Portuguese. Deeply influenced by the defensive architecture of the Portuguese forts of coastal Muscat, the Nizwa qalʽa provided a circular gunnery platform, surrounded by a high, thick wall with viewing openings and musketry positions that shielded twenty-five cannons. 3...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 314–320.
Published: 01 August 2017
... ): 245 – 65 . Horton Mark Middleton John . The Swahili: The Social Landscape of a Mercantile Society . Oxford : Blackwell , 2000 . Ivanov Paola . “The Aesthetic Constitution of Space: Mimetic Appropriation of Foreign ‘Styles’ and the Creation of Transoceanic Connections...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 518–531.
Published: 01 December 2014
... car and motor transportation. Thus, in its break-
hobbies. Moreover, traveling by car away from the ing down of geographical constraints, automobil-
coastal cities, the bourgeois urban resident tra- ity in interwar Lebanon, as happened elsewhere
versed the country’s landscape, engaging in new...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 7–16.
Published: 01 May 2020
... and unequal. For instance, the cities established through colonialism have been largely sited on coasts, in defiance of threats from tropical cyclones and coastal flooding, indeed often on landfill. The localness of climate change is perhaps most salient in these vulnerable and exposed places. Yet climate...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 424–437.
Published: 01 December 2015
... for market activity, free from lated tract of heavily farmed land on a coastal
the frictions of politics and culture. The launch plain some 60 km south of Visakhapatnam City.
party for the APSEZ in New York was the first in Neither the blueprints that were unveiled in New
a series of roadshows held...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 226–234.
Published: 01 August 2017
... of disparate kingdoms and communities
a semblance of normalcy to imperial folly, from expanding to the coastal Atlantic regions of West
whence have derived accounts of “human nature” Africa. Morocco, Algeria, Libya, and Tunisia were
and “the human condition...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 143–158.
Published: 01 May 2019
... conquered in the first decade of the twentieth century, remained under military administration and did not become part of metropolitan France like the coastal regions, while major resistance in Libya was not definitively crushed until 1932. What was the special place of car racing in the colonial context...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (1): 26–40.
Published: 01 May 2007
... of Thailand, is
includes the vast infl uence of the Tabligh on by any meaning a marginal place for the Muslim
people’s lives and actions. Muslims, especially community. It is hard to imagine that the coastal
members of the Tabligh, support...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (2): 327–341.
Published: 01 August 2024
... and located Egypt “geobotanically” as the temporal and spatial origin for world flora; and transitions in botany as an arena of scientific expertise during postcolonial nationalism's reordering of the Egyptian academy. Building on extinction and destroyed landscape studies, this article explores ecological...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (2): 545–546.
Published: 01 August 2011
... of Mocha’s gov- © 2011 by Duke University Press
was the true coffee entrepôt for which Mocha ernors in an attempt to challenge long-held
along with other coastal cities served as mari- views about the Qasimi imamate as a parochial
time outlets. The characterization of Mocha as polity...
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