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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 428–432.
Published: 01 December 2024
... with some suggestions of a way forward to overcome these problems such as the democratization of data and funding transparency. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 political economy of research fieldnotes ethics data ownerships...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (1): 41–55.
Published: 01 May 2021
... to photograph satellites flying overhead to gather data to produce a new model of the Earth, one that Soviet scientists hoped would be an alternative to Western models. I argue that these technical artifacts in Africa, connected into a single global network, represented examples of “infrastructural irruptions...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (3): 502–514.
Published: 01 December 2009
... and martyred at the battle of Karbala in 680 CE. The mehndi ceremony, or majlis , is steadfastly observed on 7 Muharram by Hyderabadi Shias in defiance of pressures from the ulema in Iran and Iraq to eliminate practices deemed to be unauthentic and un-Islamic. Drawing on archival and ethnographic data, I argue...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 329–340.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Kazim Abdullaev The relationship between the sacred drink haoma and narcotic plants is a major focus in studying the religious and ritualistic traditions of the ancient people of Indo-Iran and Central Asia. This study addresses this question through an analysis of archaeological data gathered...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (1): 25–39.
Published: 01 May 2012
... Southeastern Anatolia Project (Guneydoğu Anadolu Projesi, or GAP). Using interviews and survey data, the essay details changing narrations and understandings of the Turkish state among villagers of Turkey’s southeast, revealing the importance of social and historical processes, as well as differentiated...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (2): 429–436.
Published: 01 August 2012
...Sondra Hale Using field data from Eritrea and Sudan, Hale’s essay interprets women’s political memory work in contemporary conflict situations as forms of resistance. Few approaches are more epistemologically generative in analyzing conflict than the politics of memory in which, by recounting...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (2): 364–367.
Published: 01 August 2014
... of the Mediterranean as a methodological trope, this essay draws attention to its liquidity in configuring geopolitical and discursive relations between Africa, Asia, and Europe and to its fungibility as conceptual currency and considers the Mediterranean as a source of both data and theory. © 2014 by Duke...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 423–427.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Sara Ababneh Abstract This reflection on the politics and ethics of social research in Jordan starts with the dynamics between individual researchers and then turns to the politics and policies of data ownership in funded projects. The power relations between individual researchers as well as those...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1983) 3 (2): 63–68.
Published: 01 August 1983
... during in their investigation. the process of data collection. Male The book under review is divided into research teams often focus on heads of four sections, with each section analyzing households, and given the strict rules...
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Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 3. Lines showing the “chords” of the Big Chord program whose most critical data was supplied by astronomical stations located in the African Sahel. The “cross” is centered at Khartoum in the Sudan while the dots in Africa show the location of camera sites (from left to right) in Mali, Chad More
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1990) 10 (2): 1–8.
Published: 01 August 1990
...Shahnaz Kazi; Bilquees Raza Copyright 1991: South Asia Bulletin 1990 References Afzal , M. , and Z. M. Nasir, 1987 , “Is Female Labour Force Participation Really Low and Declining in Pakistan? A Look at Alternative Data Sources”. Paper presented at the annual general meeting...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (3): 272–275.
Published: 01 December 2013
... collective marks a very impor- tant moment for reenergizing the relation between region as a source of data and a source of theory. As the mission statement declares, regions have always been a source of data and theory, Tbut at least within North American...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (1): 184–199.
Published: 01 May 2008
... legacy, the sheer scale of the holds.3 Such developments at first reduced fe- massive immigration of foreign labor makes the male participation in the non-household-based contemporary period distinct. Tables 1 and 2 workforce.4 Moreover, emerging legal systems provide data that make this point...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (2): 224–241.
Published: 01 August 2023
... assessment of resources, gathering and publishing compilations of information for local Ottoman consumption. The collation of diverse kinds of quantitative agricultural data into a series of charts that facilitated comparison across provinces was a means of demonstrating and asserting that agriculture...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 215–223.
Published: 01 August 2003
... the result of na- 1990s has been the subject of much controversy. Revi- tional pedagogical projects, but also of more diffuse sions of mainstream historical accounts were sparked expressions, common to foreign policy, media, and partly by the release of archival data on the early state popular culture...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (3): 680–690.
Published: 01 December 2007
... second great epidemic of 1859, the eastern coast In spite of their inaccurateness, diarrhea East of Africa, notably Mauritius, Zanzibar, and Nosy data show that it is a major cause of infant mor- Middle Be on the west coast of Madagascar, had already tality between six and fifty...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 547–551.
Published: 01 December 2019
... that acknowledges the historical and social specificity of these polities. Vaishnav's multidisciplinary insights about Indian politics, along with his meticulously collected data about criminality in politics, could provide the foundations for a novel theory of the Indian state, one that could present Indian...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1985) 5 (1): 27–34.
Published: 01 May 1985
... of the cultivator, he recommended nineteenth century Indian economic history. the introduction of a permanent settlement. Furthermore, he To establish her case, McAlpin draws upon aggregate suggested that land revenue should not exceed 50 percent of statistical data on rainfall, crop...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 413–417.
Published: 01 December 2024
... in the context of sectarian politics or ethnic conflicts. One article uses World Values Survey data to group the diverse minorities in the region into either linguistic or religious identities in order to explain their attitudes toward authoritarian regimes. 9 In lieu of the disciplinary desire to generate...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 17–23.
Published: 01 May 2020
... alongside deeply unequal social formations. Yet Indian policy makers, for instance, have continually rejected extant studies on the hazards of pollution by insisting on the need for indigenous scientific data. They do so despite knowing well that the resources and networks required for longitudinal studies...
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