Search Results for displacement

... (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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... and the Politics of Representation . London : I. B. Tauris , 2010 . Shohat Ella . On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings . London : Pluto , 2017 . Shohat Ella . Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2006 . Snir...

...Meghna Chaudhuri Abstract Standard accounts of South Asian developmentalism render invisible the very conditions that make it possible: the successive displacement of land, both historiographically and historically. The author argues that by the late nineteenth century, there was a critical shift...

..., 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...

... 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...

... resemblance, and embodied cultural memory, a condition caused by the displacements of Partition and the creation of national difference. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 filmaria Pakistan archives Guddu Film Archives Nigar Weekly Pak Films South Asian cinema intercultural cinema...

...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...

... their diversity of location, class, ethnicity, religion, social capital, political power, living conditions, and possibilities, not to mention experiences of displacement, coercion, and violence—how would the decolonial impulse translate? [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024...

... Ministry for Industry and Supply in 1948, and a documentary film on displacement for open-cast coal mining in the 2010s. This article argues for an interpretive framework of mining photography that looks beyond fixed visual identifications of what counts as a “mine,” and instead uses photographic archives...

... 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...

... on time and waiting in contexts of displacement most often place human agency at the center of analysis, attending to people's understandings of waste of time ( daya‘ al-waqt ) in relation to divine power allows for moving beyond secular, materialistic understandings of time. Placing God at the center...

...- first- century conflict with its tremendous civilian casualties, mass 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...

... 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...

.... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...