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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (3): 568–583.
Published: 01 December 2022
.... The author therefore turns to South Asia to theorize what she calls uncanny ecologies—that is, interspecies webs of care and commitment among animals, humans, and deities. The author also asks why these nonsecular multispecies worlds have not been taken up as viable models of relationality and Anthropocene...
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in What Makes a Natural Harbor?: Naturalizing Port Development along the Gulf of Kutch, Western India
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Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 4. Camels swimming in the mangrove ecologies of Kutch, 2020. Photography courtesy of Shanna Baker, “Where Camels Take to the Sea,” Hakai Magazine , https://hakaimagazine.com/features/where-camels-take-to-the-sea/.
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (1): 24–48.
Published: 01 May 2017
... food and politics ecological disasters political economy war and politics References Abbott Keith Edward . Cities and Trade: Consul Abbott on the Economy and Society of Iran, 1847–1866 . Edited by Amanat Abbas . London : Ithaca Press , 1983 . Abu-Lughod Janet...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (2): 204–221.
Published: 01 August 2015
... ways novel and unprecedented. They serve as a critique of dominant anthropocentric discourses of religion, and they point us toward possibilities of reimagining the relations between animals and humans, especially in the face of the ecological devastation we inhabit. © 2015 by Duke University Press...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 86–103.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Figure 4. Camels swimming in the mangrove ecologies of Kutch, 2020. Photography courtesy of Shanna Baker, “Where Camels Take to the Sea,” Hakai Magazine , https://hakaimagazine.com/features/where-camels-take-to-the-sea/. ...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (3): 584–602.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Megnaa Mehtta Abstract The current ecological crisis and its accompanying environmental consciousness has prodded many to reject Western dualism and instead embrace animism. Taking the Sundarbans forests of India as a starting point, the author shows how several animated, nonhuman agents...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 81–85.
Published: 01 May 2024
... of a country's geopolitical aspirations. Port constructions engineer rigid boundaries between land and sea, rendering coastlines vulnerable to sea-level rise. Port operations generate effluents from imports like coal and oil that contaminate coastal environments, with devastating consequences for ecologies...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (1): 25–39.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Leila M. Harris This article draws on recent interventions related to everyday states, state-natures, and political ecologies of the state, as well as Timothy Mitchell’s concept of “state as effect,” to detail and analyze ongoing changes in southeastern Turkey associated with the large-scale...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (3): 502–514.
Published: 01 December 2009
... that the participation in the mehndi ki majlis narrates a worldview connecting Hyderabad's Shias to the cosmopolitan Karbala through the vernacular ecology, aesthetics, and values of the local Deccani culture. Duke University Press 2009 Who Could Marry at a Time like...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (2): 233–240.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Uzramma Abstract Weaving on the handloom in India remains in the twenty-first century a large industry practiced by several million people, including, besides weavers themselves, others engaged in supporting activities. Indian hand weaving is a potentially viable ecological textile industry...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (1): 117–136.
Published: 01 May 2015
... for consumption in Britain extended a general distancing of live animal and dead meat on an imperial scale. The outcome of this was not only economic and ecological change throughout much of the Southern Hemisphere, but also the reformulation of colonial flocks to suit the new trade in frozen meat. © 2015...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (1): 112–133.
Published: 01 May 2016
... and the people who work and reside there are continuously abjected by civil society's propertied classes, which view them with anxiety and loathing, as a source of crime, nuisance and detriment. Thus, “waste” as concept-matter but also a locus where labor and ecology meet is a neglected but powerful site...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (2): 327–341.
Published: 01 August 2024
... and located Egypt “geobotanically” as the temporal and spatial origin for world flora; and transitions in botany as an arena of scientific expertise during postcolonial nationalism's reordering of the Egyptian academy. Building on extinction and destroyed landscape studies, this article explores ecological...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 249–261.
Published: 01 December 2023
... private property in land in the settler-colonial predicament as a process of double loss: of Indigenous land relations and ecologies, on the one hand, and national life and territory, on the other. To do so, the article privileges an actor-based history, which captures both the development of political...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 347–354.
Published: 01 December 2021
...- and intra-imperial domains were biologized and thus fastened to the material and technological systems these groups were part of. Parsis and their Muslim competitors naturalized this system and made it and themselves into parts of the landscape. Such ecologies of ethnicity and extrastatecraft flourished...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 565–583.
Published: 01 December 2020
... nonhuman ecologies as a materially diverse and ephemeral architecture and archive of landscape. It argues that, in helping assemble and modulate the society's efforts to model improvement, conduct plant testing, and develop an ornamental garden, plants, seeds, and soils become unlikely and sometimes unruly...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1993) 13 (1_and_2): 35–44.
Published: 01 August 1993
...: Chandler Publishers). Fisher , J. , 1990 . Sherpas: Reflections on Change in the Nepal Himalaya (Berkeley: University of California Press). Fricke , T.E. , 1989 . “Introduction. Human Ecology in the Himalayas,” Human Ecology , 17 ( 2 ): 131 –145. Friedmann , J. , 1981...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (3): 561–567.
Published: 01 December 2022
... Thanks to the posthumanist turn, theoretical work in the humanities and social sciences has been endeavoring for some time to imagine the shared ecologies of varied life-forms (and nonliving forms) with differing ontologies. This has meant going beyond the traditional human subject, the master work...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (1): 137–155.
Published: 01 May 2015
.... “ The Behavioral Ecology of Ungulates .” Ecology 46 , no. 38 ( 1975 ): 757 – 58 . Barrow Mark V. Jr. Nature’s Ghosts: Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2009 . Beadle L. C. “ The Nuffield Unit of Tropical...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (1): 86–102.
Published: 01 May 2017
...-Politics, Modernity . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2005 . Moore Jason W. Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital . New York : Verso , 2015 . ———. “Environmental Crises and the Metabolic Rift in World-Historical Perspective.” Organization...
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