... Surie von Czechowski, Julie Peteet, and Jared Manasek Bread from Stones: The Middle East and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism By Keith David Watenpaugh Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015 272 pp., $65.00 (cloth); $34.95 (paper) HUMANITY AS CONCEPT AND METHOD Reconciling Critical...

...Suriya Wickremasinghe Copyright 1988: South Asia Bulletin 1989 South Asia Bulletin, volume 9 number 1 (1989). Document: Civil Rights Movement of Sri Lanka (29 September 1989) CIVILIZATION AND HUMANITY IN PERIL Can we take the risk of killing innocent youth? Of course...

... University Press 2015 Women's Rights Human Rights Syria Feminism I have used pseudonyms in place of authors' names in this essay, as the status of the texts I used remains unclear at time of publication and given that ongoing events in Syria may pose a danger to activists and writers. While...

...Sujit Sivasundaram By reconsidering how race operates at the intersection of the human-animal divide, this essay looks back on the paths that have been opened by the special section “Nonhuman Empires.” Rather than interrogating the literary entanglement of animality and race, the argument considers...

... and literary expression existing at the time through their rhetorical use of a language of entitlement that universalizes feminine desire in humanist terms. They did so through the portrayal of female characters who express the desire to possess sexual freedom, economic independence, and human equality...

...Ariella Azoulay Azoulay argues that human rights discourse is based on a separation between a closed past, in which what was robbed is no longer contested because the violent dispossession has been legalized and naturalized, and an indefinite future in which the rights of “everyman,” as it were...

... 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...

..., this article argues that the optimistic analyses of virus and virality are predicated upon the abstraction of the human, thus overlooking race and geopolitics. sshakhsa@umn.edu Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 coronavirus human Iran geopolitics race sanctions virality...

...Rajbir Singh Judge; Parama Roy Abstract This special section, “Other Than Human: Rethinking Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia,” speaks to the ways in which the other than human puts pressure on our sense of the secular contours of imperial rule and the postcolonial condition. Shifting from...

... driver of the social: accumulation. To argue for love as a new ground for the political, however, he must argue first against Hannah Arendt, who drove a stake into all bleeding hearts forever in The Human Condition . For Arendt, love and politics are antithetical because love is unworldly : love expels...

...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...

... on contextual reasoning that undergirds our understanding of the Punjabi artistic scene. Yet the nonhuman in this article does not emerge as a new object of inquiry, a new placement for the text. I do not seek to replace the human with the nonhuman, nor do I wish to resolve the tensions between the two...

... 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 “scientific” disciplines. While pervasive across the academy, this battle has been fought...

...Jean H. Quataert This article pieces together a complex genealogy of the multiple contexts that helped reshape women’s international organizing and create a global women’s human rights movement following the United Nations (UN) Decade for Women, 1975–85. It maps a multilayered history consisting...

...Suad Joseph © 1993: South Asia Bulletin 1993 References Nedelsky , Jennifer , 1990 . “Law, Boundaries, and the Bounded Self,” Representations , Spring (30), pp. 162 –189. United Nations , 1993a . “Final Document on the Women's Human Rights Session at the Asia NGO...

...Henry F. Carey Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2003 The Postcolonial State and the Protection of Human Rights Henry F. Carey Take up the White Man’s burden— and conquered (South Africa).10 There were also English The savage...

... n h oiiso Memory of Politics the and Trials, Rights Human Commissions, Truth n oteCueo utc,”pesrlae ac 2003, March 4 2003). release, March 14 press (accessed Justice of pr040303a.pdfok www.un.org/Depts/dpko/missions/unmiset/ Cause Mas- the Church to Reconciliation “Suai...

...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...

...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...