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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (1): 71–87.
Published: 01 May 2021
.... These intellectuals and businessmen invoked environmental determinism to claim that trade, tourism, and services were Lebanon's national vocation. This article reveals that engineers formed an influential and underexamined countercurrent advocating statist developmentalism. Engineer-bureaucrats saw...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 476–496.
Published: 01 December 2014
... environmental assessments were
The announcement’s “public” had been pre- evaluated and the standards of evaluation negoti-
fgured by the EIA’s determination of stakehold- ated within the civil administration, the sense in
ers. Among other things, AYGL’s second...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1985) 5 (2): 8–13.
Published: 01 August 1985
... at present, representing potassium and rare metals, became the obfects of intensive
primarily an urban elite. Those involved in the environmental exploitation and removal by corporate contractors. The
movement, however, are primarily indigenous subsistence blasting of mountainsides and felling...
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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
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Scenario; the forced relocation caused by the Bank-financed
SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF power plant and coal mine, as well as the appalling human
LARGESCALE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS environmental and public health conditions to which...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1995) 15 (2): 109–118.
Published: 01 August 1995
... of paddy in Kerala tural research (operating at the national and interna-
only marginally due to environmental factors. As a tional levels) which determines funding patterns, the
result, other factors like the demand for rice straw, nature of training, the factors of recognition and
and wage...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 454–467.
Published: 01 December 2020
... In van Schendel's account, environmental conditions are the critical factor, enabling nonstate spaces and providing venues for the articulation of “tribal” ethnicity. Scott contended that centralizing states overcame environmental difference and integrated these spaces by the mid-twentieth century...
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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
... of the project and those ries, large and culturally diverse populations, and
studies produced voluminous reports on socioeco- complex terrain. The determination of project size
nomic and environmental conditions in the zone’s has been a difficult issue for applied development
five districts-Rukum...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1994) 14 (1): 7–13.
Published: 01 May 1994
... to
national, intermediate and local self-determination, and
social justice. Sub-themes: globalization and national self-
determination; notions of development; globalization,
environmental sustainability, and justice...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 463–472.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Arash Khazeni This essay examines the environmental history of the Afghan frontier city of Balkh and its decline in the Central Eurasian caravan trade in the early nineteenth century. Situated on the frontier between the steppe and the sown, with the Hindu Kush to the south and the Oxus River...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1993) 13 (1_and_2): 5–22.
Published: 01 August 1993
... surprising, therefore, that
to “civilize” the indigenous peoples referred to as pseudo-scientific theories (e.g., social Darwinism
“savages,” “inferiors” and many other expletives. and environmental determinism) were propounded
Equipped with such psycho-linguistic phrases and as natural laws...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (2): 241–248.
Published: 01 August 2019
..., and ethical postindustrial society customers offer as hope or count as response to the scale of unsustainability—both social and environmental—the planet faces today? Hierarchies that keep millions of handloom weavers and craftspeople in the global South at the bottom of the financial, social, and epistemic...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1986) 6 (1): 47–50.
Published: 01 May 1986
... fights agalnst c.8telsm, and women's
JUNGLE PARISHAD. BHUTE- struggles for their rights. But In Dhule district as in much of India it Is
AKASPUR (DHULE DISTRICT, becoming clear that environmental issues...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1986) 6 (1): 45–46.
Published: 01 May 1986
... and/or endo-cyv/dtb. other problem6 ware
and environmental protection against such disurters occuning, (3) OOCV/CI(
SPedlJc to pregnant or lactating women. Among thek symptmm were
community and government preparedness to respond to disastm...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (2): 293–306.
Published: 01 August 2016
... This national political allegory confounds itself at many points — the histories of capitalism and apart-
heid in South Africa have significant transnational determinants and environmental legacies, to name
two of the most obvious factors that move the allegories I find outside the frame of the nation...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (1): 137–155.
Published: 01 May 2015
... . Agrawal Arun . Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2005 . Alagona Peter S. After the Grizzly: Endangered Species and the Politics of Place in California . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2013...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (1): 88–105.
Published: 01 May 2021
.... Given that dairy and alfalfa farms both require an immense amount of water to maintain, what explains these developments in the deserts of Arizona and Arabia? The answers are historical and contemporary, demanding an approach to “desert geopolitics” that explains how environmental and political...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (2): 275–292.
Published: 01 August 2016
... Jane . “A Synthesis of the Recent History of Mapungubwe.” Pretoria : South African Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism , 2003 . Braun Lindsay Frederick . “Spatial Institutionalisation and the Settler State: Survey and Mapping in the Eastern Transvaal, 1852–1905.” South...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (1): 117–136.
Published: 01 May 2015
... , 2003 . Belich James . Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Anglo-World, 1783-1939 . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2009 . Brooking Tom Pawson Eric , eds. Seeds of Empire: The Environmental History of New Zealand . London : I. B. Tauris...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1995) 15 (2): 99–108.
Published: 01 August 1995
...-
social and political power. The expansion out into
tivation and the power of the sugar barons have been
agro-industries, the tightening of control over labor
critical in determining the economic and political...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1981) 1 (2): 36–52.
Published: 01 August 1981
..., based on studies that predict severeenergy shortages and environmental problems
in the near future and is well worth serious consideration.
There is no generally accepted arrangements or voluntary transfers of
definition of what constitutes "Land Kefom land are doomed...
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