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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (3): 437–445.
Published: 01 December 2017
... Press Force, Dwelling, and the Personhood of Things in Urban Malaysia Richard Baxstrom Vertigo Nothing ever holds still in Kuala Lumpur. The effect of this fact is that one gets the sense that everything in the city, including the built environment itself, can potentially act as an agent...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 488–493.
Published: 01 December 2020
... Asia and elsewhere described in the special section “Rethinking Sovereignty” afford us a more differentiated view of the symbolic force of sovereignty—as a promise and a claim to inalienable property. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 violence jurisdiction ritual property...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1998) 18 (2): 73–81.
Published: 01 August 1998
...Pedram Partovi © 1998: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1998 Authorial Intention and Illocutionary
Force in Jalal Ali-i had’sGburhzadigi
Pedram Partovi
During the early 1960s, Jalal Al-i Ahmad (1923...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1981) 1 (1): 17–22.
Published: 01 May 1981
...”. Demography . Vol. 8 , no. 4 , pp. 427 –440. 1971 . Patel , R. “Cultural Transition and the Employment of Women” , in Sociology of Development in Pakistan, ed. A. Kiani. Karachi, 1971 . Youssef , N. H. “Social Structure and the Female Labor Force: The Case of Women Workers in Muslim...
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in In the Shadow of the Silk Road: Border Regimes and Economic Corridor Development through an Unremarkable Pakistan-China Border Market
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 December 2019
Figure 2. Afiyatabad is home to a migrant labor force that live in rooms that are either adjacent to or above shops, or clustered into hostels such as the one in this photograph. Photograph by the author, 2016.
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in The Urbanism of Racial Capitalism: Toward a History of “Blight”
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 May 2020
Figure 1. “Blight Is . . .” Detroit Blight Removal Task Force Plan , 13.
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in The Urbanism of Racial Capitalism: Toward a History of “Blight”
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 May 2020
Figure 4. Cover, Detroit Blight Removal Task Force Plan .
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in An Archive of Development: The Road Film's Tyranny of Proximity
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 December 2020
Figure 5. A plaque dedicated to a General Reserve Engineering Force officer killed in a landslide. Still from Road to Leh (dir. Gopal Datt, 1968).
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in An Archive of Development: The Road Film's Tyranny of Proximity
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 December 2020
Figure 9. Unshod local laborers, hired by the General Reserve Engineering Force, sheltering along the side of the road during the dynamiting of the mountain face. Still from Border Roads (dir. P. B. Pendharkar, 1965).
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 77–79.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Nikolas Kosmatopoulos Abstract In its will to tame the sea, its routes, and people, capitalism unleashed three intertwined forces: novel networks of circulation, refurbished regimes of violence, and new epistemic disciplines and lexicons, all twirled together into an embrace of forceful conquest...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1986) 6 (1): 3–16.
Published: 01 May 1986
... & McGreevy (ed) Women and Poverty in the Third World . Johns Hopkins Univ Press. SOUTH ASIA BULLETIN, Vol. VI No. 1, Sprlng 1986.
WOMEN: WORK, WELFARE AND STATUS.
FORCES OF TRADITION AND CHANGE...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (2): 214–226.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Samuel J. Hirst Between 1920 and 1922, Moscow dispatched guns, grain, and gold to Ankara. The obvious paradox of collaboration between Bolshevik internationalists and the Turkish National Forces has frequently been dismissed as pragmatic union born of necessity, with necessity defined in terms...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (1): 147–159.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Nurcin Ileri Assembling the complexities and problems associated with public order and security in fin-de-siècle Istanbul, Ileri’s article presents a brief institutional history of the modern police forces and provides a vivid picture of the everyday lives of police officers through interrogation...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (1): 184–199.
Published: 01 May 2008
...John Willoughby The key argument of this essay is that the increased educational attainment of women who are citizens of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries is leading to noticeable increases in female labor force participation. As a result of this development, the emergence of new labor...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 116–130.
Published: 01 May 2019
...On Barak Abstract Anwar Sadat's “open door” policy involved the forceful promotion of an American-inspired car society. This essay traces the development of Egypt's motorscape by recounting the first eight decades of automobility in Egypt. Focusing on the 1970s, it suggests that the increasing...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 440–453.
Published: 01 December 2014
...On Barak The abstraction of “energy” emerged in the second third of the nineteenth century amid attempts to disentangle human, animal, hydro, and carbon powers, seeking to thereby transform them into manageable and docile forces. This simplification still animates the notion of “energy regimes,” so...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (1): 42–43.
Published: 01 May 2016
... constitution in 1950. They show that, far from being the product of clear political settlement, these moments were shaped by historical contingency and, often, conflict. In so doing, the articles offer new ways of thinking about state institutions in this period, not as monolithic forces located outside...
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Published: 01 May 2020
Figure 4. Predicted number of months per year in 2051–2100 that will exceed the maximum absolute temperature found across all months from 1951–2000, under a high climate-forcing scenario (RCP8.5). From Harrington et al., “Seasonal Cycles.”
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in Decolonizing History: Algeria, Palestine, and the Movement for Migrant Rights in Postcolonial France
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 August 2022
Figure 2. Rally to protest racist crimes at an unspecified location in France. Protestors hold up giant portraits of slain migrant workers alongside Palestinian flags. Screen shot from Compter sur ses propres forces , directed by Yannis Tritsibidas (1973). Courtesy of Yannis Tritsibidas.
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (2): 396–411.
Published: 01 August 2018
... increase. Apart from direct funding for new projects, new investments pay for a large increase in the deployment of security forces, multilayered briberization, and protection money that also funds Maoist outfits, in yet another unending war that is fundamentally a resource war around mineral and metal...
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