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...Sucheta Mazumdar © 1998: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1998 Symposium on “Nationalism, Heterotopia, and Homeless Texts” Locating Modernity in World History* Sucheta Mazumdar In this very interesting and provocative essay Mo- tempts...

...Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi © 1998: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1998 Modernity, Heterotopia, and Homeless Texts Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi “The motto of enlightenment is therefore: Supere uude modernity has been at the center of recent historical...

... consider the circulation of literary tastes across the colonial divide and recognize the production of forgetfulness and ignorance that accompanied modern narratives of languages and literary histories, both colonial and Indian, and that made a host of texts “homeless” (Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi...

... and values following World War I that we might get a fuller understanding of how we arrived at our contemporary “residential capitalism” and landscapes of accumulation and homelessness. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 speculation accumulation homelessness Calcutta Bombay...

... and more categories of people inhabit camps than ever before, from refugees and migrants to the homeless and detainees, but the camp form today proliferates at the heart of urban space and across the global North/global South divide. Camps are no longer temporary sites of emergency management...

... homeless and underclass people, victims of honor crimes, disowned members of blood families, premature babies, and more recently, unaccompanied refugees. They also contain the bodies of political detainees who have been “disappeared” under police interrogation and state violence, along with radical...

... in moment accommodated easily be “unhomely” the norcan homeless, be not to is To unhomed be The most notable example of the debates concerning the perils of representing Iran...

...Vasant Kaiwar © 1998: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1998 Swposium on “Nationalism,HeterotoRia. and Homeless Texts” 15 for the better part of tlhy years since independence? written documents from antiquity, were integral...

... and on the streets. Vancouver studies have revealed ans searching for work; that unemployment is Neoliberal that homelessness doubled in that city between extremely high in many hard-hit resource com...

..., and Homeless Texts,” in (feminine) creative spirit. That road is still open to us. which Tavakoli-Targhi lays out the assumptions under- But what are the political-social-economic conditions pinning a conventional understanding of modernity as a under which this becomes a possibility for all...

... and control. Forms of enclaving also stigmatize such spaces, leaving them open to association with economies of precarity and disposability such as homelessness, street hawking, domestic labor, contract work, and illicit trade. The contributors to this section thus work with such keywords as ephemerality...

... Sinhalese was enshrined and national culture re- engagk is one of the important consequences of Tamil defined. This triggered a cultural revivalism in the Sin- militantism. “Rifles, machine guns, grenades and ar- halese literature but had adverse effects on English and mored trucks, and homelessness...

... fwmni hostels” in women ( of illegality position the of marginalizes still notion apartheid-inspired an because authorities contemporary by situated homeless rendered similarly be will women These other Africa. South of throughout women displacement thousands immediate literally the and of in women...

... . Higate Paul R. “ Tough Bodies and Rough Sleeping: Embodying Homelessness amongst Ex-servicemen .” Housing, Theory and Society 17 , no. 3 ( 2000 ): 97 – 108 . Hockey John . “ ‘Head Down, Bergen On, Mind in Neutral’: The Infantry Body .” Journal of Political and Military Sociology 30...

... to forget the past. Feeling “guilty,” the of Vienna and a suicide attempt upon return to protagonist changes the news channel when it Iran. In Vienna, Marjane’s crisis, as is evident covers the Iran-Iraq war, because it is “unbear- in her two months of homelessness...

... hostels” in women ( of illegality position the of marginalizes still notion apartheid-inspired an because authorities contemporary by situated homeless rendered similarly be will women These other Africa. South of throughout women displacement thousands immediate literally the and of in women result...

... was to individualize book begins with a theoretical first chapter entitled everyday events through an exercise of one’s own “Modernity, Heterotopia, and Homeless Texts,” in (feminine) creative spirit. That road is still open to us. which Tavakoli-Targhi lays out the assumptions under- But what are the political...

... this was felt of authorizing their government also rendered ex- as well. Writing to the CAS in December 1948 to istent the idea of “the people.” 122. Letter from the Undersecretary of CAS to some administrators during the time of the homeless person...

...- together with the Calcutta and Kidderpore Muslim dered them homeless them twice: in 1947 and 1971 League wrote to Jinnah in May 1947 that the Muslims That both the Stranded Pakistanis General Repa- of West Bengal and the Bihar refugees settled in Burd- triation Committee and the Muhajir Qaumi Move...

... Shah Ghazi, both structures etching a distinctive profile against the horizon ( fig. 1 ). They have been forced together through suspicious real estate deals, kickbacks, and the sale of public property. 1 The sacred precincts of the shrine have been encroached on, and the homeless and indigent have...