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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (3): 568–583.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Mayanthi Fernando Abstract If secularity ushered in the notion of humans as buffered subjects immune to nonhuman agents, recent attempts to recognize the agency of nonhumans and to see humans as always in relation to nonhumans—the natureculture turn—may be understood as both a posthumanist...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (3): 603–619.
Published: 01 December 2022
... with a multiplicity of registers of the nonhuman—the nonhuman animal, the “natural” world (sky, stars, stream, rocks, etc.), the world of objects, and even organs disaggregated from the human body—and the human to shift the angle from which the relation of human and nonhuman becomes legible and supplement...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (1): 66–75.
Published: 01 May 2015
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from an understanding of the co-constitution of human and nonhuman interactions, stand to challenge
anthropocentric figurations of agency.
Nonhumans are not invisible, of course: in literary narratives they have been variously associated
with significant...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (3): 584–602.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of the current apocalypse is “Western” Cartesian separations between nature and culture and in order to “save nature” and reconstitute human and nonhuman relations, we should “reclaim animism.” 1 This article attempts to cast doubt on the latter certainty by surpassing the stratification between...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (1): 156–172.
Published: 01 May 2015
.... For Rebecca J. H. Woods,
sense it serves as an end refection to this collec- the relation between animals and humans, specif-
tion of essays, which have all discussed nonhumans cally around the meat trade from New Zealand to
and the way they impinge on the human in creat- Britain, has been a work...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (3): 561–567.
Published: 01 December 2022
... . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2015 . Dave Naisargi . “ Witness: Humans, Animals, and the Politics of Becoming .” Cultural Anthropology 29 , no. 3 ( 2014 ): 433 – 56 . Deb Roy Rohan . “ Introduction: Nonhuman Empires .” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 565–583.
Published: 01 December 2020
... in favor of relational, distributed, or assembled conceptions of agency, and which highlight the complicated politics of multispecies entanglements; the role of nonhuman actors as political subjects, collaborators, or knowledge producers; and the more-than-human construction of capitalist and imperial...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (3): 437–445.
Published: 01 December 2017
... of argument back toward life, attempting to outline how one apprehends the world via the perception of embodied ( liv- ing ) persons (human and nonhuman) within this field of being. In contrast, while agreeing with In- gold s claim that personhood is realized through relations, I will briefly suggest here...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (2): 246–262.
Published: 01 August 2015
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greedy plainspeople who have disenfranchised purpose but through embodied, intimate prox
paharis before, and, most humiliatingly, armies of imities between human and nonhuman bodies
bahar ke bandar (monkeys from elsewhere)? It is in who encounter one another as relational...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (3): 638–655.
Published: 01 December 2022
... take the provocative notion that there is nothing like a noncarnivore to signify precisely a metonymic range. If that be the case, a range of human sovereignties also arguably emerges in relation to the nonhuman animal, problematizing a fixed sovereign-nonsovereign opposition pegged to a veg versus non...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (1): 1.
Published: 01 May 2015
... disciplinary history’s investment in figurations of human agency as the sole or distinctive site
of struggle and resistance. Our contributors trace how empire constructed human agency by purifying
itself of entire continents of nonhuman imperial subjects and, by so doing, seek to bring the new imperial...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 237–253.
Published: 01 May 2022
... situatedness of race and racism in different geographical locations through abstraction. 9 The valorizations of virus as the unruly and incalculable nonhuman, wherein human is assumed to be the Man of colonial modernity, celebrations of virality in the virtual realm wherein computation rather than human...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (1): 137–155.
Published: 01 May 2015
... and 1970s, biologists began to argue that conservation was more than a “numbers game”; it also required taking into account nonhuman traditions and social structures. The theory of biological territoriality thus became a conceptual tool for asserting nonhuman claims to land, often in competition with human...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (2): 222–231.
Published: 01 August 2015
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al-Ghazali’s exclusion of the nonhuman, al-Jahiz vate enterprise, an interior commitment, and a
distinguishes between the natural capacity of ani- quiet personal journey — I take this as the received
mals for bayan and that of humans, the latter...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 440–453.
Published: 01 December 2014
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of the traits of their living elements (human and the working spinners whose combinations and
nonhuman alike) was not wasted on contempo- stoppages of work have often been extremely an-
raries. Observers like the French engineer Ber- noying to the masters.”32 Addressing labor...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (3): 620–637.
Published: 01 December 2022
.... In the wolf-children stories, whether anthropological or evangelical, certain questions rise persistently about the relations that obtain between human and nonhuman worlds, and about the nature and forms of sacrifice, whether within a human community, across species lines, or encompassing spiritual...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (2): 232–245.
Published: 01 August 2015
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is “the production of bare life,”1 namely the capacity to decide which bodies can be killed without the
killing counting either as homicide or as a sacrifice. Rather than arguing that humans necessarily have
sovereignty over nonhumans or that animals are simply bare life, we want...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 476–496.
Published: 01 December 2014
... of infrastructure-in-the-making sheds light on another, conceptual alliance. On one end, “thing theorists” argue for an understanding of infrastructures’ nonhuman, agentive capacity to assemble disparate people, things, and institutions. On the other end, political commentators propose, as many did, that meetings...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 211–214.
Published: 01 May 2020
... to retain the human/nonhuman binary. Were he here with us, I would like to push him on that—push him to reject that binary too, as overly constraining on our effort to make visible what is Islamic—or what is Catholic—overly constraining to what I think he is doing in this book. Rejecting the “downsizing...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 141–145.
Published: 01 May 2022
... across the globe. And now, with the deepening climate crisis and persistent growth of ecological disasters, we can soon expect to enter a new phase of large-scale death and displacement due to the growing presence of drought, floods, wildfires, and hurricanes. In fact, multiple nonhuman species have...
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