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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 604–610.
Published: 01 December 2014
... fresh insights into its strategies of expansion and control. By highlighting the ways those strategies built on—and diverged from—the ones employed by the British Empire, the book provides a bracing challenge to claims of American exceptionalism. It is less illuminating or original, however, in its...
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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): 225–229.
Published: 01 August 2020
... justifying exception and ushering its expansion and normalization in steadily more realms of law and life. In so doing, this special section proposes at least three possible avenues of further inquiry, each of which builds on and into the other: First, by virtue of their geographic and temporal scope...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (2): 329–344.
Published: 01 August 2020
... that they constituted divine signs, al-Suyuti chronicled 130 earthquakes that occurred in the Muslim world. Curiously, Zalzala reemerged more than three centuries later in the modern world of colonial expansions. In the aftermath of the 1927 earthquake in Palestine, American seismologist and Stanford professor Bailey...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (2): 345–360.
Published: 01 August 2020
... that statements of the character of alterity became more significant. Through discursive analysis of the expansion of the telegraph and railway into Bijnor qasbah, alongside newspaper conversations and state documents, this essay suggests that the timescape of Bijnor was characterized by a sewing together of past...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 43–50.
Published: 01 May 2020
... the logic of neoliberal markets and legitimate capital gain, hence the tight connections between cultural heritage, industry, and tourism. While the concept developed as early as the nineteenth century in postrevolutionary France, its expansive political, juridical, and symbolic use has matured only after...
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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 (2017) 37 (1): 86–102.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Marion Dixon Literature on the global agrifood system largely overlooks the role of reclamation of arid and semi-arid lands in the industrialization of horticulture (fruits, vegetables, and ornamentals) worldwide in the neoliberal period. Why has the development and expansion of industrial...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (2): 220–223.
Published: 01 August 2010
... under war and occupation in Iraq, Palestine, or Afghanistan or in the marketplace of NGOs, continue to suffer from the rule of capital in its imperialist expansion. The amount of critical literature on the role of women's NGOs is limited and needs to be expanded, to delve deeper into questions of how...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (1): 2–10.
Published: 01 May 2021
... and the relatively discrete channels in which it materialized, which gave this mode of thinking a particular vitality and instability. African-Soviet entanglements unfolded in an expansive and uneven geography that incorporated diverse regions of Africa, the USSR, and beyond. Avoiding the temporal and spatial silos...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 526–540.
Published: 01 December 2020
..., and indeed fully in discourse with its users. The article argues for a more expansive and inclusive understanding of what constitutes an archive, designating the “archival habitat” as a place of active scholarly engagement. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 architecture architectural...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (3): 561–567.
Published: 01 December 2022
... and challenges that inhere in probing the secular limits of our received understanding of the other than human—a received understanding that typically undergirds the work even of those whose scholarly archive encompasses the nonsecular. Such an expansive, nonsecular sense of the other than human is a slippery...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (2): 229–245.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Sadia Saeed This article examines how a transnational religious movement that originated in British India, the Ahmadiyya movement, deployed the norm of religious freedom in the course of its expansion outside the British Empire. Ostracized by mainstream Muslims, Ahmadis used their position...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (2): 275–292.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Robin L. Turner Contemporary postapartheid South African land struggles are haunted by the long shadow of historical dispossession. While apartheid-era forced removals are justifiably infamous, these traumatic events were moments in the more extended, less frequently referenced, and more expansive...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1999) 19 (2): 53–60.
Published: 01 August 1999
...-sponsored oil price in- cretely manageable components which Arrighi calls creases in 1973 and 1975. The long expansion of the “systemic cycles of accumulation” (these are taken by Golden Age gave way to a period, a “long downturn” him to constitute hegemonic “long centuries” of about or Leaden Age...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1997) 17 (1): 67–80.
Published: 01 May 1997
... in Early Modern Europe . New York: Harper Torchbooks, pp. 11 –42. Cain , P.J. , and A.G. Hopkins. 1993 . British Imperialism: Innovation and Expansion, 1688–1914 . London: Longman. Curtin , Philip D. 1969 . The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census . Madison: University of Wisconsin Press...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 454–467.
Published: 01 December 2020
... © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 sovereignty borderlands environment Deccan Maoism indigeneity The Deccan plateau today is the site of multiple partial, incomplete, and overlapping sovereignties that make completing claims on authority in the region. Expansive spaces of political...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1997) 17 (1): 63–66.
Published: 01 May 1997
..., structurally, fore inhibited illumination of these global forces which and culturally by European expansion starting during deserve to be studied from as many angles as possible. the early modern period of the 15th and 16th centuries. To examine change in any modern society against the This has implied...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1985) 5 (1): 19–26.
Published: 01 May 1985
... their owners were traditional roles in the Presidency. In 1778, the abolition of unable to meet the revenue demands. Thus it is clear that the system of revenue collection through indigenous agencies the Chettiar expansion outside the Presidency was mainly affected that side...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (1): 222–224.
Published: 01 May 2016
... is the historical product of a peculiarly modern way of organizing knowledge and the disciplines, its expansion is the result not only of the GI Bill and Cold War – era ex- pansion, but also of demands for inclusion by those denied the benefits of education, whether African...