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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (2): 396–411.
Published: 01 August 2018
... India’s resources under the logic of emerging markets. About a quarter of postcolonial India’s scheduled tribe population has been displaced by development projects, often through foreign loans and investments. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 environment indigenous people India...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (1): 110–121.
Published: 01 May 2023
... among Iraqi Jews while they lived in Iraq. 3 They also depict experiences of alienation and discrimination, exclusion and displacement. Forget Baghdad narrates the stories of four Iraqi Jewish men living in Israel—three of whom were members of the Iraqi Communist Party in the 1940s and emigrated...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (2): 474–486.
Published: 01 August 2011
... (1985), the Manhattan Trilogy (1993–2002), Sound Barrier (2005), and Vegas: Based on a True Story (2008). The analysis foregrounds continuities of displacement and confinement between Naderi’s films about Iran and his subsequent portraits of the United States. The journeys and paths undertaken...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (1): 58–68.
Published: 01 May 2010
... the way for a modern Arab ethnoscape, where the Arab subject experiences transnational movement in the global space without associating this experience with the negative aspects of exile. Ibn al-Arabi dismisses the negative effects of “geographic” displacement. According to his reasoning, an expatriate...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (1): 69–84.
Published: 01 May 2010
... Displacement and Memory: Visual Narratives of al-Shatat in Michel Khleifi’s Films May Telmissany They came. They were looking at the ruins, the surrounding plots of land, they seemed to measure something with their eyes, they tasted the air and the light on their tongues...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (1): 85–91.
Published: 01 May 2010
..., and multiple displacement fluxes. Through a collage of interviews, still photographs, old newspapers documents, and a rich array of archival film footage, Forget Baghdad interweaves a dialectic between three Arab diasporas. The first is that of four Arab Jews living with their families in Israel; the second...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 196–211.
Published: 01 May 2019
... resemblance, and embodied cultural memory, a condition caused by the displacements of Partition and the creation of national difference. The territorial tussles of a cross-border film market are evident in the way the timeline commemorates the Pakistani Urdu film Shahida (1948) as the “first film...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (2): 313–327.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Noa Shaindlinger Abstract The article, based on two years of fieldwork, examines the meaning of displacement for Palestinian citizens of Israel who live in Jaffa. Specifically, it focuses on one key site, the Clock Tower Square, historically a hub of Palestinian urban economy. The discussion...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (1): 130–146.
Published: 01 May 2012
... and North America. The specific works examined and the new narratives of the veil they bring forward reorient the gaze. By displacing the veil, a site of cross-cultural mistranslation, they remap the world and uncover the possible spaces of transnational literacy and communication. This article...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (2): 352–361.
Published: 01 August 2024
... University Press 2024 anthropology displacement Palestine photographs In October 1999 I visited a seventy-eight-year-old man in his home in the Rafah refugee camp at the southern end of the Gaza Strip. I was there to record an interview as part of my dissertation research. My interviewee, Abu...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (3): 619–624.
Published: 01 December 2017
... displacement, and the near collapse of the international humani- tarian and asylum systems as we know them. Bor- ders are at play in this historical telescoping: Arme- nians fled or were forced marched from Anatolia, or what is now part of modern- day Turkey, to Syria during the 1915 genocide and its immediate...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1995) 15 (2): 99–108.
Published: 01 August 1995
... the ways in which the structuring of and resettlement of those displaced by the construc- political power differs in the colonial and post- tion of this big dam. The ramifications of this proj- colonial state and to point to the fracture that these ect though, are much wider, and will have a pro...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1988) 8 (1_and_2): 106–115.
Published: 01 August 1988
.... RICH ON BE- displaced about 23,000 people; thousands of contract labor- HALF OF ENVIRONMENT DEFENSE FUND, ers are toiling in construction activities associated with the FRIENDS...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1990) 10 (1): 66–68.
Published: 01 May 1990
... they There is large-scale displacement also taking place nevertheless have a bearing upon it. in the name of nuclear installations which carry with In 1989 the National Fishworkers Forum (NFF), them the danger of radiation health hazards. We see India, undertook a month long national coastal...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 424–437.
Published: 01 December 2015
... Delhi.” International Social Science Journal 55 ( 2003 ): 89 – 98 . ———. “Breaking Homes, Making Cities: Class and Gender in the Politics of Urban Displacement.” In Displaced by Development: Confronting Marginalisation and Gender Injustice , edited by Mehta L. , 59 – 81 . London...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (2): 275–292.
Published: 01 August 2016
... of the twentieth century, circumscribing black property rights and displacing millions of people. Contending that twenty-­first-­century natural resource use and land rights conflicts are haunted by the long shadow of historical dispossession, this article examines the relationship between...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (2): 361–373.
Published: 01 August 2012
.... tion, and belief ” ( The story then ends with An example, wherein the subject’s re- 366 a description of how “people” (i.e., the Shi’is) lationality “displaces” him, causing him to express their love and allegiance to the ahl al- adopt pious norms, is found...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (1): 86–88.
Published: 01 May 2012
...   secularism and its tendency to displace rather through Lipovetsky and Heidegger,” Muham- Finn than eradicate violence. Through this displaced mad Velji maintains our tentative focus on art...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 462–474.
Published: 01 December 2019
... of my broader interactions with, and experiences of conducting, fieldwork among tribal Pashtuns who have been displaced from FATA. Since the US-led invasion of neighboring Afghanistan, Pakistan has experienced significant unrest and violence; it is estimated that since 2005 more than fifty-nine thousand...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (3): 446–455.
Published: 01 December 2017
... and the materiality of everyday life, particularly through the emo- tional and affective engagement with the world of things.6 Within this literature, Yael Navaro- Yashin s work on Turkish Cypriots living within the objects and ruins of a displaced community of Greek Cy- priots is particularly telling.7 Her concept...