... that emphasize quantity over quality. I suspect, however, that the absence of quantitative methods is also driven by a feeling among many historians that we must choose sides in a battle in which the value of the humanities is continually called into question by disproportionate investment in more...

...Sheldon Pollock The past fifty years have seen a profound endangerment of the world's humanities capacity. While the crisis is far from unknown in the United States it is acute across the global south. Columbia University's Global Humanities Project assembled a group of scholars and administrators...

...Mamadou Diouf Since independence, African scholars from different traditions (African, Islamic and Western), intellectuals, and politicians have been actively engaging with humanities and social sciences originating from the West and received through the conduit of colonial rule and imperial...

...Suren Pillay This article offers a few vignettes on the humanities in contemporary Africa. It suggests that the different fates of the humanities and social sciences have corresponded to changes in political conjunctures, particularly in relation to nationalism in the wake of independence...

...Rashid Khalidi Khalidi introduces the essays of two contributors to the roundtable on the global humanities, Ahmad Dallal and Khaled Fahmy, who focus on the state of humanities in the Arab world. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 humanities Egypt Arab world GLOBAL HUMANITIES...

...Ahmad Dallal Available evidence suggests that the crisis of the humanities is more critical in the Arab world than it is in the West. This article provides a provisional sketch of the state of arts and humanities scholarship within university settings in the Arab world. The article also examines...

...Khaled Fahmy This article studies the difficulties that befall the teaching of the humanities in Egyptian universities. It argues that as is the situation globally, the humanities are in crisis in Egypt. This crisis stems from a complete lack of support by public figures, antiquated pedagogical...

...Sheldon Pollock Pollock introduces the essays of two contributors to the roundtable on the global humanities, Sundar Sarukkai and Syed Nomanul Haq, who focus on the state of humanities in India and Pakistan, respectively. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 humanities South Asia India...

...Sundar Sarukkai There has been much written about the crisis in humanities education. Most of this published debate arises from scholars in Western universities and, at some level, can be seen as a reflection of a crisis about the nature of education and the role of universities in contemporary...

... identifies three salient features of these policies: one, that the HEC considers all education to be reducible ultimately to a pragmatic process of systematic vocational training that promises employment; two, that the study of the humanities is expressly discouraged as a matter of policy target; and three...

...Lydia H. Liu Are the humanities in trouble in China and Taiwan, such as we witness elsewhere in the world? In her brief commentary, Lydia H. Liu reflects on the contributions by Wang Hui and Fan-sen Wang, who offer illuminating analyses of the state of the humanities in contemporary China...

...Wang Hui Wang Hui's article, which is part of the author's larger project on the multiple origins of the Chinese humanities, examines the impact of the modern Western education system on disciplinary divisions in China. The article looks specifically at the development of humanities in China after...

...Fan-sen Wang This article discusses various aspects of the current status of the humanities in Taiwan. First, the “indicator frenzy” that has prevailed in East Asia over the past twenty years has caused a major problem in humanities in Taiwan's academia. Second, in the past twenty years...

... Copyright 1991: South Asia Bulletin 1990 Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 3 Article 25 When.au iccugnitivti of tlic inherent Everyone has the right to life...

...C. M. Naim Copyright 1992: South Asia Bulletin 1992 South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XI1 No. 2, Fall 1992. Minority Rights or Human Rights? C. M. Naim Though a concern with human rights in universal newed Galaration of the original spirit. In his percep- terms was expressed...

...Bonny Ibhawoh © 1999: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1999 Structural Adjustment ,Authoritarianism and Human Rights in Miica Bonny Ibhawoh The effects of Structural...

... Copyright 1992: South Asia Bulletin 1991 South Asia Bullein, Vol. XI, NOS.1 8c 2 (1991). Human Rights in Sri Lanka: An Interview with Barnett Rubin Barnett Rubin, Associate Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, member of the Asia Watch Committee and author...

... , No. 23 (June 7): 1002 –1003. Desai , A. R. 1987 . ‘Rural Development and Human Rights in Independent India,’ Economic and Political Weekly 22 , No. 31 (August 1): 1291 –1296. Economic and Political Weekly . 1986 . ‘Arwal Massacre: A Government Conspiracy? Report...

...Valérie Orlando The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco Susan Slyomovics Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005 271 pp., $55.00 (cloth), $24.95 (paper) Duke University Press 2006...

...William A. Munro Measuring Democracy and Human Rights in Southern Africa Henning Melber, comp. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2002 (Discussion Paper no. 18) 49 pp., $15.95 (paper) Duke University Press 2006...