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Introduction: The Ethics of Embodied Life
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (3): 378–380.
Published: 01 December 2013
...: The Ethics of Embodied Life
The editors of CSSAAME envision Kitabkhana (lit. repository of books) as a space for scholarly discussion
about books whose critical perspectives reshape our understanding of the regions under the journal’s
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Embodying Solidarity in the Heart of Empire
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 182–187.
Published: 01 May 2024
... conceptual thread tying these themes together is affect theory. As such, there is a considerable focus in the book on questions of subjective motivation. Throughout her text, Moradian asks why ISA activists made the choices they did, and she recurringly attributes their political decisions to their embodied...
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Phantom Limbs, Embodied Horror, and the Afterlives of the Armenian Genocide
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 182–195.
Published: 01 May 2022
..., geographically, and bodily because they are visitors to haunted spaces or what Roma Sendayka has called “non-sites of memory.” How do communal memories of horrific bodily violence sometimes result in embodied hauntings? How have visitors historically enacted rituals—including collecting bones of martyrs...
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Iconic sculpture of a fort flanked by canons and embodying an Omani village...
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in Nizwa Fort: Transforming Ibadi Religion through Heritage Discourse in Oman
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Published: 01 August 2019
Figure 7. Iconic sculpture of a fort flanked by canons and embodying an Omani village, with its typical whitewashed look and palm gardens; built at al Fatah National Stadium in Muscat for Oman's Fortieth National Day Festival in November 2010. Photograph by the author.
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Yoga in Asia—mimetic History: Problems in the Location of Secret Knowledge
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (2): 213–229.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Joseph S. Alter On one level, and with reference to a specific frame of reference, embodied forms of practice that have come to be associated with Yoga and Taoist philosophy appear to be very similar if not identical in terms of form, structure, and purpose. However, there is no clear-cut history...
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Skill as Problem-Space in the Contemporary Mumbai Construction Industry
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 80–85.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., semiskilled, and unskilled labor shape the everyday work of building, yet these terms only partially map onto hierarchies of embodied capacities and know-how. At least two vectors are producing what I term a “problem-space” concerning skill. On one hand, long-standing patterns of informal learning by doing...
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Knowledge Production in the “Arab-Majority” World and Unlearning in the Field: Autoethnographic Reflections from Lebanon toward Alternative Research Politics
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (2): 263–276.
Published: 01 August 2024
... of unlearning and relearning—disrupting this failure—through immersive embodied listening fieldwork within the material space of the Arab world, undoing the formation of an alienated, fractured, Westernized self. Moving beyond the cognitive and theoretical to the material, experiential, and embodied...
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Introduction: Animals, Ethics, and Enchantment in South Asia and the Middle East
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (2): 200–203.
Published: 01 August 2015
... a site of embodied philosophical engagement with questions regarding the bounds of self and community and our ethics toward others. We turn to these rich traditions, both textual and embodied, to confound and erase the sharp boundaries between the human, the animal, and the environment that have been...
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Of Reciting and Reading
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 666–671.
Published: 01 December 2015
... conceptual tool: the notion of the human being as a “walking Quran.” As Diagne discusses, many Islamic traditions insist on the fact that the Quran is truly written in the heart of the believer who thus becomes an embodiment of the Word of God. As the being chosen to be the bearer of the Word spoken by God...
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Rereading the Past, Reshaping the Present
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 671–678.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Ousseina Dioula Alidou This article uses Rudolph T. Ware III's original and compelling book, The Walking Qur'an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa , as a window through which to reflect on the contribution of West African clerisy of the classical Quran tradition...
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Creeping Secularism
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (1): 46–52.
Published: 01 May 2011
... propaganda, the use of revolutionary violence, and organized terror, embodied in the very structure of a state, addressed itself to the world as a new militant ideological and political power aiming, once again, to change the world. How could this extremely unexpected event happen? Explanations are various...
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“A Language Which Is Foreign to Us”: Continuities and Anxieties in the Making of the Indian Constitution
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (2): 228–242.
Published: 01 August 2014
...Sandipto Dasgupta Dasgupta’s essay revisits the long-standing debate about colonial continuity in postcolonial India’s constitutional system. The Indian constitution makers sought to produce a system embodying a transformational constitutional vision—that is, a constitutional structure that could...
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A Return to Which Self?: ʿAli Shari’ati and Frantz Fanon on the Political Ethics of Insurrectionary Violence
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (1): 86–105.
Published: 01 May 2014
... involved alterations within a shared framework. Most notably, Shari’ati emphasized the prospect of a return to a religious self, redefined as political ethics. Whereas Fanon privileged an embodied experience of racialization as the most fundamental constraining and enabling factor in the realization...
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Tragedy Made Flesh: Constitutional Lawlessness in Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (1): 106–125.
Published: 01 May 2014
... as an anomalous deviation from an American constitutionalism thought to embody the realization of immanent reason at the end of history, Du Bois demonstrates that the forms of barbarism, custom, and status posited as prior in this telos of constitutional progress to be products of the American juridico-political...
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The (Non)Governance of Divided Territories: A Comparative Study of Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Palestine
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (3): 467–472.
Published: 01 December 2008
.... This article analyzes the (non)governance of divided territories, drawing on the analogy of divided Pakistan. The case of East Pakistan/Bangladesh serves as an example of the difficulties embodied in governing geographically separated territories. This article proposes that autonomous Palestine is seemingly...
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A Divine Madness: The Secret Language of Trauma in the Novels of Bessie Head and Calixthe Beyala
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (1): 93–108.
Published: 01 May 2008
... that force the reader to renegotiate the intersection of the personal and political as they are embodied in African women's lives. Modernistic narrative strategies play a key component in recreating the subjective reality of women on the verge, or in the midst, of psychic collapse. Simultaneously...
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Unmoored: On Oceanic Objects in Coastal Eastern Africa, circa 1700–1900
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 355–367.
Published: 01 August 2017
... traders, is not just the backdrop for diaspora and migration, for trade networks and imperial formations. Rather, this landscape actively creates tactile and embodied experiences of these phenomena. Monsoons, long-distance commerce, and even faraway places are not just symbolic imaginaries but very much...
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The Aesthetic Constitution of Space: Mimetic Appropriation of Foreign “Styles” and the Creation of Transoceanic Connections on the Swahili Coast
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 368–390.
Published: 01 August 2017
... Swahili coast as an example, Ivanov argues that the translocal space of the Indian Ocean evolves from practices of mimetic appropriation, in which aesthetic properties of partners in transoceanic exchange are embodied. In doing so, translocal Swahili culture reveals a nondichotomous, complex way in which...
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Introduction: Multilingual Locals and Textual Circulation before Colonialism
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 63–67.
Published: 01 May 2019
... and curricula were embodied in individuals or coexisted within the same social space. A third approach is an analysis of circuits and circulation. Finally, multilingualism can be turned into the plural as a study of comparative multilingualisms. Through these and other approaches, we can trace how colonial...
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Violence, Democracy, and the Major-Minor Question
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 49–62.
Published: 01 May 2019
... offices in other African states. The continuous competition to defeat opponents, obtain victories, secure majorities, occupy the place of power, and embody its force—which liberal democracies institute—is central to this argument about the violence that South Africa has witnessed in recent times...
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