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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1992) 12 (2): 96–103.
Published: 01 August 1992
... , Cry the Beloved Narmada , Chandrapur: Mabarogi Sewa Samiti. D'Monte , Darryl , 1985 , Temples or Tombs? Industry vs. Environment: Three Cases , Delhi: Centre for Science and Environment. Doria , R.S. , 1990 , Environmental Impact of the Narmada Sagar Project , New Delhi: Ashish...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (3): 680–690.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Hénock Blaise Nguendo Yongsi; Ndi Humphrey Ngala; Remy Sietchiping © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 Infant Diarrheas in a Sub-Saharan
Urban Environment (Yaound
An Epidemio...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 275–292.
Published: 01 December 2023
.... This legal plurality challenges the trope of “informality” in contested Palestinian camps by demonstrating that “formal” and “informal” statuses are not opposed or contradictory; rather, processes of making claims to land and the built environment are more complicated than that dichotomy can encompass...
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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 (2024) 44 (1): 164–166.
Published: 01 May 2024
... and their environments from the knee-deep muddy waters of its littorals? Where do we take urban histories, which have remained landlocked till very recently, when we see the ports from their environmental edges? What does the port, its harbors, and its hinterlands look like from the bobbing waves of the ocean...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 476–496.
Published: 01 December 2014
... like this one index “environmental citizenship” premised on the recognition of common responsibility for a vulnerable environment. Both suggest nature’s physical properties—e.g., aquifers’ vulnerability to toxic wastes—seemed to have brought sworn enemies together, thereby exceeding or bypassing...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 595–609.
Published: 01 December 2010
... (TNSM) and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Acknowledging the importance of the wider geopolitical environment, I argue that the rise of the TNSM and TTP is a function of the historical salience of Islamic (jihad) idiom in Pashtun society, localized sources of discontent, and historical-structural...
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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 (2013) 33 (3): 345–359.
Published: 01 December 2013
...)definitions of revolutionary and reformist trade unionism explicit, and it situated both in an international environment and on divergent international trajectories. During the Meerut case, trade union politics were debated inside and outside the courtroom. This worsened the tensions between reformist...
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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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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (3): 674–685.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Mohamed Zayani The advent of civil society in the Arab world, the proliferation of nongovernmental advocacy organizations, and the expansion of civil society activism have been heralded as promising developments with significant implications on the region’s immutable political environment. While...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (1): 73–88.
Published: 01 May 2018
... a centrifugal expansion, without any preplanned direction. In so doing it is not only incorporating fields previously unimagined under its domain, but also it produces circuits, which are made up of elements and events that form an environment (milieu) where individuals are expected to govern through...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (2): 322–328.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Ravi Ahuja Abstract This afterword to “The German Connection” comments on the ideological context that South Asian intellectuals encountered in interwar Germany. “Toxic entanglements” with this highly charged, combative, and diverse intellectual environment provided them, in particular, with a wide...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 454–467.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of Hyderabad's borderlands, as well as the way political boundaries articulate with environmental conditions and cultural claims, however, is perhaps most clearly visible in the history of Maoist movements in old Hyderabad borderlands. Radical Marxist militancy in the environs of Hyderabad State, first...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 463–472.
Published: 01 December 2010
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environs. Travelers observed that following repeated outbreaks of cholera in the first half of
the century, the city was abandoned for the nearby shrine town of Mazar-e Sharif. This essay
examines the environmental history of nineteenth-century Balkh and its decline as a center
of Central...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (1): 27–33.
Published: 01 May 2011
... and humanist, and there are two types of secularism, a rigid and fundamentalist one that denies any role for religion in society and a flexible and tolerant one that only restricts religion from interfering in the state. In this “post-secular” environment, the rationalist religious intellectuals...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 135–147.
Published: 01 May 2024
... environments connecting Europe, Africa, India, and China since prehistoric times. Indian Ocean ports grew in number, size, wealth, and permanence over the centuries and anchored the rise of seaborne empires connecting Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Modernity traveled among industrial port cities along...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 118–134.
Published: 01 May 2024
... decoupled from what the infrastructure space is doing—the unequal burdens it visits on coastal communities, labor, and the environment, and the deep contestations it invites in response to environmental injustices. As we have described in this article so far, fishers have been made to occupy...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (1): 71–87.
Published: 01 May 2021
... to the natural world. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 Lebanon engineering environment environmental determinism political economy nationalism On a balmy Beirut summer night in 1951 Ibrahim Abd-El-Al began a lecture to an audience of ministers, businessmen, and intellectuals...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (1): 117–136.
Published: 01 May 2015
... by Duke University Press 2015 empire animals agriculture environment New Zealand colonialism meat I am grateful to the editors of this special section, Rohan Deb Roy and Sujit Sivasundaram, and the participants of the “Nonhuman Empires: Between Agents and Actants” conference...
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