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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
... With discussions around “decolonizing” methodologies developing, the autoethnographic reflections from this project's fieldwork argue that presence in the field itself as an embodied experience can form a key site of unlearning and, perhaps in some ways, alternative learning against epistemic coloniality. 38...
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The Ethics of Decolonization: What MENA Social Research Can Learn from the Indigenous Turn
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 385–390.
Published: 01 December 2024
...: Moving Further Toward an Anthropology for Liberation ,” edited by Faye Harrison. These anthropologists used ethnography for “political and epistemic decolonization” and interrogate “their own subjectivity as field-workers conducting research in hotbeds of American political and military hegemony” ( Allen...
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Cultural Decolonization: On the Rise of the Margins in Arab Thought
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (1): 83–93.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., for instance, attacked Arab thinkers' “uncritical view” of Europe: “How did European philosophical thinking become the only thinking of all humanity?” 29 Starting in the 1970s, they began to refer to European epistemic privileges and focused their attention on how political decolonization was informed...
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Reckoning with God: Divine-Human Relations after the Arab Spring
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2025) 45 (1): 83–90.
Published: 01 May 2025
... of California Press , 2019 . Moll Yasmin . “ Can There Be a Godly Ethnography? Islamic Anthropology, Epistemic Decolonization, and the Ethnographic Stance .” American Anthropologist 125 , no. 4 ( 2023 ): 746 – 60 . https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13911 . Moll Yasmin . “ Television...
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The Making and Closing of Eurocentric International Law: The Opening of a Multipolar World Order
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (1): 182–195.
Published: 01 May 2016
... . The Nomos of the Earth in the International Law of the Jus Publicum Europaeum . New York : Telos Press , 2003 . Smith Linda T. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous People . London : Zed Books , 2012 . Trouillot Michel-Rolph . “North Atlantic Universals: Analytic...
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Losing Freud
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 282–286.
Published: 01 May 2022
... constellations and texts that have never been read before or not in this way. In fact, they bring in these texts and devise reading practices directed at them that could not be reduced to the imposition of or resistance to Western concepts and methods and to the hegemonic place of the modern episteme...
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Unlearning History: Europe in the Wake of African Political Thought
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (1): 177–182.
Published: 01 May 2016
... to Quijano, Aníbal. “Coloniality and Modernity/Rationality.”
deliberate global democracy and its future: the Cultural Studies 21, no. 2 – 3 (2007): 168 – 78.
principle of democracy was going to be weak in Wilder, Gary. Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and
international affairs especially...
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Editors’ Note
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 379.
Published: 01 December 2024
... Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 As we write, encampments are springing up at universities around the world as students, staff, and faculty advocate for justice in Palestine. The special section we publish here on “Decolonizing Research/Politicizing Ethics” asks us...
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Introduction: A Critique of Eurocentrism: Then and Now
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (1): 174–177.
Published: 01 May 2016
... Eurocentrism.” Against this backdrop, Grovogui presents decolonization as a confrontation with historicism. Grovogui's larger point is that the neglect of non-Western traditions hinders the capacity of theorists to envision different futures. To correct this bias, he presents the thought of three African...
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Postcolonial Reverberations
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (1): 195–203.
Published: 01 May 2016
... — called up by such potent po-
litical signifiers as decolonization, nonalignment,
Schmitt, Carl. The Nomos of the Earth in the International
arms race, and nuclear détente — is thus very much
Law...
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Politicizing Ethics: Decolonizing Research on Iraq
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 418–422.
Published: 01 December 2024
..., “University Systems” ; Arvanitis and Hanafi, “Marginalization of the Arab Language.” 13. Tuck and Yang, “Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor.” 14. See also Hanafi, “University Systems” ; Arvanitis and Hanafi, “Marginalization of the Arab Language.” References Abu-Lughod Lila...
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Introduction: Third World Historical: Rethinking Revolution from Ethiopia to Iran
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 422–429.
Published: 01 August 2022
... theories of decolonization from oppositional politics, pure and simple, to a need for demystification, for anti-colonial reframing, and for “a substantive political re-imagination.” When Ethiopians worked on questions of representation, especially among Black Americans, this was itself revolutionary action...
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Subject to Colonialism: African Self-fashioning and the Colonial Library
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 356–358.
Published: 01 August 2003
... Desai examines a range
critique of origins, as Condé becomes, in Suk’s reading, of texts from roughly the first half of the 20th century.
witness to the trauma of failed African decolonization Chapter 1 is devoted to discourses of racial difference,
and its ever-deferred promise (115). so...
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Practices and Metaphysics of Knowledge: Notes on Nationalism, Internationalism, and Cosmopolitanism
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 226–234.
Published: 01 August 2017
... may not always be the same even after im-
point: that there are practices of cosmopolitanism perialism, and particularly during decolonization.
and internationalism that occurred organically in These predicates, which were attained in specific
West Africa even before the advent of the state sys...
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Boys Will Be Boys: Gender and National Agency in Frantz Fanon and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1991) 11 (1_and_2): 79–83.
Published: 01 August 1991
... apt phrase, uneven in the peacefbl groves of (post-colonial Western)
decolonization. This paper, however, has a limited academe, but also in some killing fields of the third
objective: in it, a relationship is posited between gender, world. And not in the sense that his texts provide some...
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Ali Shariati and Cosmopolitan Localism
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (2): 282–295.
Published: 01 August 2019
... and Shariati's return to the self both entail an epistemic turn to the local sources of knowledge, and they both internalize the logic of engaging with the world from the vantage point of local attachments. It is the same logic that sustains Mignolo's embrace of pluriversality in place of universality...
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Decolonizing History: Algeria, Palestine, and the Movement for Migrant Rights in Postcolonial France
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 454–469.
Published: 01 August 2022
... Notwithstanding the overly zealous interpretations of The Wretched of the Earth as a manual for violent—read, bloody—revolution, the violence of decolonization as a program of total disorder is fundamentally epistemic, as becomes clear when Fanon introduces the question of historicity in his diagnosis...
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Modernity from Elsewhere: Psychoanalysis, Ethnography, and Speculative Horizons of Self-Assertion
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 270–277.
Published: 01 May 2022
... breaks with both these tendencies in an archaeological study that situates the Muqaddima in the divergent, discontinuous, and yet interrelated history of philosophy across Islamic and Christian civilizations. Tabatabai sets Ibn Khaldun's “social” science in the epistemic world of the Islamic West...
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The Humanities to Come: Thinking the World from Africa
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (1): 121–131.
Published: 01 May 2017
... and conceptions of development and neoliberalism after the Cold War. It further takes up the debates in South Africa, the last African country to confront the dilemmas of decolonization in the sphere of knowledge production, most acutely expressed through the Rhodes Must Fall movement and other student movements...
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The Place of Political Membership: Abul Kalam Azad's Critique of Borders and Nations
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 378–388.
Published: 01 December 2021
..., the concept of place could become a shared epistemic field from which a plural politics or a diverse justificatory discourse for political institutions and ideas could proceed. With this concept of place, Azad, as a systematic political thinker, culled out a powerful counter-concept to narrow ideas...
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