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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1995) 15 (2): 72–88.
Published: 01 August 1995
...David Johnson © 1995: South Asia Bulletin 1995 Urban Labor, World War II, and the Revolt
of the Working People in Colonial Zimbabwe
(Southern Rhodesia)
David Johnson
In times of war ruling classes the world over...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (1): 41–58.
Published: 01 May 2013
..., Mason and Partners, both responsible for forging the town’s first decade of urban existence under the aegis of colonial urbanism. Second, it analyzes how the nationalization of Egypt’s Suez Canal in 1956 and the growth of regional and local anti-British sentiments that also targeted the KOC compelled...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 565–583.
Published: 01 December 2020
... aesthetic and historical actors, furthering but also unsettling improvement discourse while relocating its historical effects from the region to the city, and providing new readings of the colonial urban landscape. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 architecture archive plants...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 51–56.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., “Interwar Housing Speculation,” 480 . 7. Beverley, “Colonial Urbanism and South Asian Cities,” 482–85 . 8. Housing speculation was rife not just in the colonies; recent work on Paris notes the emergence of speculators as a political force that transformed the fabric of the city during...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 73–79.
Published: 01 May 2020
... the technologies that drove their tandem growth, this essay also argues for a different view of urbanization in the developing world, as a part of and not distinct from the urbanization of the colonial metropole. 1. The Concrete Age: Devoted to Modern, Permanent Construction . 2. See Ricardo, Works...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (3): 443–454.
Published: 01 December 2018
... Religion: The Globalization of Yorùbá Religious Culture , edited by Olupona Jacob K. Rey Terry , 164 – 90 . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 2008 . Bigon Liora . A History of Urban Planning in Two West African Colonial Capitals: Residential Segregation in British Lagos...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (2): 248–255.
Published: 01 August 2020
... in North Africa. From a direct form of racialized violence leaving Muslim Tunisians on the low end of the colonial social ladder of worth, salaries, and the right to life, one moved to a more symbolic form of violence, with the south of the country quasi-racialized as less valuable than the urban coastal...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (3): 483–501.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Malek Abisaab Studies on colonial Lebanon explain social change and the engagement with the state from the perspective of the rural landed elites and urban notables. Lebanon is usually investigated as a place for exhibiting or reconciling diverse sectarian cultures that ultimately develop...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (3): 611–621.
Published: 01 December 2012
... the nationhood was always in mutation. This article thus elaborates how colonial rulers, non-Bengalis, as well as Bengali Muslims of colonial East Bengal appropriated cinema in different ways and later in postcolonial East Pakistan how both urban and rural Bengali Muslims indigenized film to construct...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (3): 465–482.
Published: 01 December 2016
... the urban land market in order to make it efficient by regulating the ways in which land and housing accrued value economically. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 speculation housing rights colonial economy urban land market South Asia Calcutta This article has greatly benefited...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 245–248.
Published: 01 December 2023
... because Palestine and the Palestinians share with the former a more direct and contemporaneous history of colonial rule and (post) colonial law. More important, they share similar precolonial agrarian and urban structures, shaped by long-standing linkages between peasant producers, merchants...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (3): 473–490.
Published: 01 December 2018
... progress in a unique way. In analyzing how the Lagos press utilized agricultural and technical associations to formulate and advertise their ideas for the future of Lagos society, this article also argues that the idealized depictions of skilled artisans and farmers by the urban, educated African elites...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 474–477.
Published: 01 December 2020
... full sovereign power over their citizens. Because most colonial states did not make any effort to extend administrative presence much beyond urban populations as well as a few sites of natural resource extraction, it is argued, their ability to control and administer territories and populations...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 35–42.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., especially Labor Zionism, eventually came to be defined in its very opposition to what it identified as nomadism. 26 Nonetheless, given Zionism's lateness as a colonial enterprise, something had to be done about a land not just populated but also built-up, even modernly urbanized. If nomadism...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 413–421.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Judith Surkis Abstract In contemporary France, the problem of “immigrant youth”—French citizens, born to migrant parents, often from former French colonies—symbolizes the question of minority and national belonging. The development and disciplining of immigrants have, for several decades, formed...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (2): 263–276.
Published: 01 August 2024
..., and the autonomous subject. Specifically, the article identifies key forces that produce this failure, including education, presence in the Westernized university, Westernized secularization, social class, family background, and urbanity, all situated within the larger structures of modernity/coloniality. Doing...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 118–134.
Published: 01 May 2024
... infrastructures currently being built in the sea in postcolonial India only intensify the expropriations of colonial projects that were staged in the sea. Second, urban fishers work not only at sea but also on the dry land of the city. As chances for making livelihoods at sea are steadily foreclosed, fishers...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (1): 117–136.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Rebecca J. H. Woods During the nineteenth century, efforts to feed Britain’s growing industrial and urban population enrolled vast swaths of the Southern Hemisphere in producing meat for British tables. This system relied on refrigerated shipping and was concurrent with efforts to improve...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (2): 313–327.
Published: 01 August 2019
...” of Israeli settler colonialism, Palestinians in Jaffa not only challenge the local realities of urban displacement and reclaim de-Arabized spaces, they also reject colonial fragmentation of historic Palestine and imagine liberatory geographies that are in the process of becoming, thus illuminating...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (2): 185–193.
Published: 01 August 2021
... public space in the city. But it also brought them into contact with an urban regulatory regime that, through a myriad of local power struggles, sought to control the sound of laïcité and the religious sphere of late colonial urban life more generally. 50 Independent Senegal's first heads of state may...
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