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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (1): 83–93.
Published: 01 May 2023
...-seated assumption prevalent among the ranks of Arab nationalists according to which one must disown their past traditions in order to become modern. The advent of cultural thinkers posed a grave challenge to this cherished evaluation, calling into question the agenda of political decolonization that Arab...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 385–390.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Lila Abu-Lughod Abstract Sampling from the “Indigenous turn” in anthropology, this article asks what might be relevant for our thinking about the politics and ethics of social research practices in the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region from the decolonizing efforts of those working in New...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 309–321.
Published: 01 December 2023
... and other campaigns. The Muslim elites’ care for the poor played out on a global stage, albeit one mapped in the reconfigurations produced by decolonization. It is striking that Muslim Northern Nigerians negotiated so far and wide to gain influence before Nigeria's oil boom in the 1970s, when affinities...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 541–545.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Christopher J. Lee Abstract This roundtable intervention applies the concept of cruel optimism , as formulated by Lauren Berlant, to situations of decolonization with the purpose of understanding the myths and fantasies of political self-determination. It also examines the idea of a Jacobin spirit...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 627–635.
Published: 01 December 2020
.... These limits invite a revised approach to writing histories of anticolonial worldmaking. An alternate approach focuses on statecraft (exactitude) and popular politics (inexactitude) at once, echoing the simultaneous affi rmation of nation building and worldmaking in Getachew's theory of decolonization...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 340–346.
Published: 01 December 2021
... the Arab-Asian group, a predecessor of the Afro-Asian bloc, and constructed an anti-imperial project that directly engaged with the making of the new international human rights system. However, the Arab-Asian group did not advance minority rights in their struggle for decolonization at the UN. Instead...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 381–384.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Mayssoun Sukarieh; Lila Abu-Lughod Abstract Rethinking research practices and querying knowledge production have emerged as part of a popular movement in the academy to “decolonize” the social and human sciences. This introduction to a forum suggests that if decolonizing has become something...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 407–412.
Published: 01 December 2024
... . Hammoudi Abdellah . “ Decolonizing Anthropology at a Distance: Some Thoughts .” Journal of Ethnographic Theory 11 , no. 1 ( 2021 ): 281 – 90 . Hannoum Abdelmajid . Living Tangier: Migration, Race, and Illegality in a Moroccan City . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (2): 443–451.
Published: 01 August 2018
... to bring about a more rigorous decolonization of the conceptual structures of secularity. Central to this effort is the recognition, inspired by Gilles Deleuze, that secularity’s “conceptual matrix” can be seen as a very particular “image of thought.” Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 3–19.
Published: 01 May 2022
..., defended, and claimed as though the trusteeship system had universalized a decolonized international law. Contributing to emerging scholarship on the relation of international law to global inequality in the decolonizing age, this article gives an account of a decolonizing worldmaking at the grassroots...
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Decolonizing History: Algeria, Palestine, and the Movement for Migrant Rights in Postcolonial France
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 454–469.
Published: 01 August 2022
... of decolonization. Before analyzing the mobilization of the Algerian and Palestinian revolutions by migrant activists in the 1970s, I situate the emergence of antiracist movements in contemporary France in a transcolonial, rather than strictly national, history of decolonization. What happens to the notion...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 418–422.
Published: 01 December 2024
... an obsession for research. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 politicizing ethics decolonizing research Iraq Once while attending a major Middle East studies conference in the United States, I tried to imagine how American studies as a field might look...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 149–151.
Published: 01 August 2003
...ISSAM NASSAR Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2003 Remapping Palestine and the Palestinians: Decolonizing
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 391–395.
Published: 01 December 2024
... of silence in the social sciences today. Finally, it proposes an alternative view on decolonizing the social sciences and historiography and on decentering future ethical research. This article presents a history of fascist genocide in Libya and Italy based on the agency and a narrative of the Libyans who...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (3): 455–464.
Published: 01 December 2016
... and decolonization of the Indian subcontinent. The goal of the exercise is to use the three concepts of nationalism, internationalism, and cosmopolitanism to arrive at a new kind of comparison, and perhaps a new kind of model of power in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries for areas that were not formally...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 343–357.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Marral Shamshiri Abstract This article analyzes the material networks, connections, and solidarities formed between revolutionary Iranian and Arab organizations in the Persian Gulf in the 1970s. In the context of decolonization and the Cold War, it explores how the Iranian Left engaged...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (1): 24–51.
Published: 01 May 2014
...” and “non-West.” Through its reading of Tawāḍuʿ Pang’s China and Islam , it also attempts to recall a now unfamiliar world in which the nation-state did not yet enjoy the dominance it achieved once decolonization was fully underway. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 This essay originated...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (2): 320–334.
Published: 01 August 2016
... and that of the anticolonial national movements. In the period of the Cold War and decolonization, a movement among nonaligned countries sought to preserve the legacy of anticolonial internationalism. Until the 1960s, the violation of human rights was largely seen as related to the persistence of colonial rule and racial...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (1): 117–120.
Published: 01 May 2017
... of location, race, culture, identities, and alterity. South Africa, which has been inflicted by a vicious racial discrimination and economic exploitation, is leading the discussion, picking up the flag of the decolonization of knowledge. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 humanities social sciences...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 406–411.
Published: 01 August 2017
... to understanding the history of decolonization and is a useful reminder today of the importance of thinking creatively about political action in a world that both rigidifies and destabilizes borders and both fosters interaction across space and reifies distinctions among peoples. References “Autour d'un...
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