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Criminal Law of French Origin and Criminal Behavior of African Occult Origin: The Modernity of Witchcraft Trials in the West of the Republic of the Ivory Coast
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2006) 26 (2): 191–202.
Published: 01 August 2006
...Veerle Van Gijsegem Duke University Press 2006
Criminal Law of French Origin and
Criminal Behavior of African Occult Origin:
The Modernity of Witchcraft Trials
in the West...
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Criminal Injustice and Mimic Democratization in Pakistan
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1996) 16 (2): 101–113.
Published: 01 August 1996
...Henry F. Carey © 1996: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1996 Criminal Injustice and Mimic Democratization
in Pakistan
Henry F. Carey
Pakistan, what one scholar calls “one of the most century of existence. Imran Khan, the star...
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Criminalizing the Criminal Tribe: Partition, Borders, and the State in India’s Punjab, 1947–55
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (3): 557–572.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Sarah Gandee This article explores the postcolonial criminalization of a so-called criminal tribe in the borderlands of East Punjab in the years following independence and Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. A small proportion of the Rai Sikhs had been notified by the colonial government...
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The Criminal and the Corrupt
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 563–565.
Published: 01 December 2019
... on viewing corruption as historically contingent and as simultaneously a moral discourse, legal category, and material practice. In this way, my argument dovetails with Vaishnav's account of the interanimation of criminality and politics in India. Sunila Kale and Sandipto Dasgupta describe...
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Wresting Riches, Marginalizing the Poor, Criminalizing Dissent: The Building of the Narmada Dam in Western India
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1995) 15 (2): 99–108.
Published: 01 August 1995
...Parita Mukta © 1995: South Asia Bulletin 1995 Wresting Riches, Marginalizing the Poor,
Criminalizing Dissent: The Building of the
Narmada Dam in Western India
Parita Mukta
The relationship between state power and agrar...
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Crime, Corruption, and Political Order in Nigeria and India
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 547–551.
Published: 01 December 2019
... choices in Vaishnav's account of India's criminal politicians. In discussing each author's contributions, rather than providing a comprehensive account, Kale focuses on the parts of their arguments that are useful for comparative discussion. Moral Economies of Corruption: State Formation and Political...
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Crime, Politics, and the Future of India's Democracy
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 562–563.
Published: 01 December 2019
... of theoretically interesting questions about corruption, criminality, and their historical embeddedness. In particular, they force a rethinking of the commonly accepted notion that in many contexts the state, far from being seen as the remedy to citizens' core grievances, is the very source of the grievance...
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Speculation Illicit and Complicit: Contract, Uncertainty, and Governmentality
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 392–407.
Published: 01 December 2015
... of vernacular speculative activities in a period of global financialization, demonstrating how market engagements with uncertainty that were previously criminalized were slowly folded into legality and governance. It illuminates a range of informal, localized practices participating in global financial flows...
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Sanitary Passports and the Birth of the Immunized Self
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 300–311.
Published: 01 December 2021
... surveillance of criminals and vagabonds as well as a scientific context marked by a key mutation: the birth of the immunized self. 22. Protocoles et procès-verbaux de la conférence sanitaire internationale de Dresde , 47 . 23. Protocoles et procès-verbaux de la conférence sanitaire...
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The Power of Corruption
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 558–562.
Published: 01 December 2019
... the contrasting poles of righteous anger and resigned acceptance. This cohabitation of anger and resignation point to a paradox that informs much of social scientific inquiry into the widespread phenomenon of corruption and criminality in the democracies of the global South. Corruption is widely acknowledged...
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Rebellion, Dacoity, and Equality: The Emergence of the Constitutional Field in Postcolonial India
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (2): 260–278.
Published: 01 August 2014
... and Development of the Special Criminal Court, 1922-2005 . London : Four Courts , 2007 . De Rohit . “ The Federal Court and Civil Liberties in Late Colonial India .” In Fates of Political Liberalism in the British Post-Colony: The Politics of the Legal Complex , edited by Halliday Terence...
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Virginity Violated: Sexual Assault and Respectability in Mid to Late-Nineteenth-Century Egypt
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (1): 214–226.
Published: 01 May 2005
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Introduction Shari’a Law: Islamic in Responsibility Criminal and Crime...
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Terrorism Prosecutions, Material Support, and Islamophobia
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (2): 243–247.
Published: 01 August 2020
.... 1 In it, I documented what I believe to be a kind of “terrorist exception” to the normal rules and procedures that govern criminal prosecutions. Essentially, I articulated the argument that where criminal defendants ordinarily received a certain modicum of rights and protections when prosecuted...
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Sovereignty, Law, and the Politics of Forgiveness in Colonial India, 1858–1903
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (3): 385–401.
Published: 01 December 2018
... 2018 sovereignty pardon legal history crime violence colonialism References Agamben Giorgio . State of Exception . Translated by Attel Kevin . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2003 . Anagol Padma . “ The Emergence of the Female Criminal in India...
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The Urgency of New Historiographies in International Relations
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (1): 213–219.
Published: 01 May 2016
... work has set the stage for these transformations. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 democracy ontology international relations postcoloniality Africa References Clarke Kamari M. “Refiguring the Perpetrator: Culpability, History, and International Criminal Law's Impunity...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 36–50.
Published: 01 May 2022
... Criminal Code (no: 5237) and the Criminal Procedure Code (no: 5271) in 2005. It altered key laws such as the Police Duties and Authorities Act (no: 2559) in 2007. With the emergence of the security state, one of the primary governmental goals became the pre-emption of “risks.” Therefore, the dual judicial...
View articletitled, Apparatuses of Denunciation, Neoliberal Governmental Rationality, and the Potential for a Fascist Turn: The Case of Turkey in the 2010s
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“The Love That Muslims Have for Mary”: Secularism and Christian-Muslim Coexistence in Lebanon
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 51–62.
Published: 01 May 2022
... as Lebanese criminal law stipulates, they are released by a “Christian” judge (as an Arab newspaper stressed) on condition that the young Muslim men memorize verses from the Quran; the judge justifies her order to spare the young men by her intention to set an example of “forgiveness among religions...
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Wahhabis without Religion; or, A Genealogy of Jihadis in Colonial Law, 1818 to 1857
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 404–419.
Published: 01 August 2022
... to “paramountcy.” Despite its imposition of a military-fiscal despotism, or likely because of it, a “crisis of criminality” famously also erupted from the 1820s. Attempts to demobilize irregular mercenaries and steady agrarian taxes meant cowing and corralling traditionally mobile bodies, many of them recently...
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Persecution of the Ahmadis: Prisoners of Conscience and Political Prisoners Convicted by Special Military Courts: Excerpts from Amnesty International Report on Pakistan, May 1990
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1989) 9 (2): 72–74.
Published: 01 August 1989
... for North West Frontier
International’s knowledge. Province and Baluchistan and cannot assess what proportion
Many political prisoners convicted by special military may have been wrongly charged with criminal offenses on
courts were among those released under thc amnesty...
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Rule, Misconduct, and Dysfunction: The Police Forces in Theory and Practice in Fin-de-Siècle Istanbul
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (1): 147–159.
Published: 01 May 2014
... , 1947 . Cörüt İlker . “ Social Rationality of Lower Class Criminal Practices in the Late Nineteenth-Century İstanbul .” MA thesis , Boğaziçi University , İstanbul , 2005 . Crawford Francis Marion . Constantinople 1895 . New York : C. Schribner’s Sons , 1895 . Demirel...
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