... in point, Julia Verne and Markus Verne note, the special section “The Indian Ocean as Aesthetic Space” wants to contribute to such an understanding by exploring the Indian Ocean as an aesthetically constituted space. Aesthetic practices and experiences are crucial, they argue, for imaginations...

... transregional imaginative spaces that both Islam and feminism project? Deep regional knowledge and serious attention to particular vocabularies of women’s rights can expose the workings of dominant frameworks and disrupt their smooth lines. More than that, the work of anthropologists, sociologists...

...Dan Ojwang East African Indian fiction, or rather fiction by East African writers of South Asian origin, presents memorable images of ceaseless wandering through strange territory, flight from home-spaces, violent expulsions, and the networks—imaginative and literal—that link the resultant diaspora...

... both the person and society are aesthetically constituted, a way that is at once reflexive and imaginative, bodily and material. T he INDIAN OCEAN as AESTHETIC SPACE...

... of the representation of the city. This article examines the spaces where the map and procession intersect, arguing that when taken together, both suggest a model for the future of Lagos as a new city imagined as modern, colonial, and Christian. References Akinsemoyin Kunle Vaughan-Richards Alan...

... and the country, are an important site of entanglement, empirically and imaginatively. The dynamics of translocal householding in the oral histories of two migrants to Delhi reveal intermittent pathways of escape from and recuperation of normative hierarchies of social difference—especially of gender and caste...

... interconnected. This shared postcolonial space extended from the Soviet South to Africa. The glue for the transregional imagination was an engagement with the topos of backwardness. For many of the participants in the debate, the Soviet past was the African present. Focusing on the 1960s and 1970s, three...

... narratives bind experts across space and time. As a study in political geography and environmental history, this article uncovers a geopolitics of connection that has long linked the US Southwest and the Middle East, as well as the interlocking imperial visions advanced in their deserts. To understand...

...Kamilia Al-Eriani Abstract This article demonstrates how protests as modes of political action are not only about claiming public spaces and democratic rights. Essentially, they articulate a mode of claiming corporeal democratic bodies cultivated and inhabited by revolutionaries in their attempts...

... of a public opinion went hand in hand stitutional and imaginative space to conceptualize with other significant sociological developments, difference and identity as to identify those specific namely a renewed interest among immigrant elements that made up the agenda of most...

.... definition of feminism within and outside the In brief, the concept of the ideal public West, this essay draws on the broad definitions sphere, as theorized by Jürgen Habermas, refers of feminism that refer to organized women’s to an imagined space in which citizens can and movements and the wide...

... Lacanian psychoanalysis elaborates as the (political-theological) problem of evil. 13 Stefania Pandolfo's study of madness, Islam, and psychoanalysis demonstrates that the space of imagination and experimentation that lies beyond the ethical economies of conventional ways of being in the world...

... of Prayer also (literally) produces new spaces of political exclusion, as the contested creation of a Christian nation is worked out in images that both reflect and provoke the imaginations of those who create and see them. Seemingly mundane images of pillars, windows, and landscaping, then, constitute...

... that preserves barbaric practices (such as Jordan’s cosmopolitan elite imagine them- honor killings)22 while rejecting elements of selves to occupy a social space distinct from what 23   “modernity” (such as gender...

....” Outlook India , April 1 , 2002 . www.outlookindia.com/articlefullwidth.aspx?215045 . Masquelier Adeline . “Road Mythographies: Space, Mobility, and the Historical Imagination in Postcolonial Niger.” American Ethnologist 29 , no. 4 ( 2002 ): 829 – 56 . Menon Nivedita Nigam...

... intolerant state, this legacy is produced by a diversity of social groups that compete for different imaginations of Turkey's national identity. This essay argues that the Ottoman legacy, and the discourse of tolerance it represents, has two important geographic dimensions. First, the Ottoman legacy relies...

... connections between Buddhist mobilities and the broader global trend toward theorizing migration, transnationalism, and deep changes to the nation-state. Spaces, we are frequently reminded, are crucial to the imagining and self-representation of communities across the globe today. Given the contentious...

... of heteronormativity, for it is through the figure of apposition” “Here, then,” she comments, “is the mother that nationalisms access the underived a thinking without nation, space- names as shifters, private. The literary imagination can contest repro- in a mythic geography, because of the power of the ductive...

... of heteronormativity, for it is through the figure of apposition” “Here, then,” she comments, “is the mother that nationalisms access the underived a thinking without nation, space- names as shifters, private. The literary imagination can contest repro- in a mythic geography, because of the power of the ductive...

... of heteronormativity, for it is through the figure of apposition” “Here, then,” she comments, “is the mother that nationalisms access the underived a thinking without nation, space- names as shifters, private. The literary imagination can contest repro- in a mythic geography, because of the power of the ductive...