...MICHAEL C. GROSSBERG Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2003 Is There A Crisis in Middle East Academic Publishing? The View from a History Journal Editor MICHAEL C. GROSSBERG I would like to begin by addressing the central ques- ducing problems, but also...

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...Michael Beard Beard’s essay contends that specialized journals with limited readerships encounter similar problems. Independent of the subject there are material conditions that limit, shape, or color a journal’s possibilities. These conditions become especially vivid to editors. In the case...

...Walter D. Mignolo Mignolo’s essay responds to the mission statement published in the summer 2013 issue of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. The essay asks: How could a journal based in the United States “decenter” itself? Can CSSAAME transcend and transgress scholarly...

...Samera Esmeir Esmeir’s essay considers the mission statement of the Journal of the Society of Comparative Legislation (1896-97) alongside the 2013 mission statement of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Joining them, Esmeir contends, is the reference to the method...

... theory have with regional art and artists. The discussion is the first of a series of events that intersect ongoing concerns of the journal, even as they open new avenues for collective consideration of art and its curation that extends beyond the attention that an individual art historian or cultural...

...Susanna Ferguson Ferguson reads a 2009–11 debate over the proposed reissue of Syria's Personal Status Code in the Syrian feminist journal al-Thara to highlight the role women's rights discourse plays in disciplining and producing political subjects. She draws on Talal Asad's observation...

... in popular satirical journals such as Akbaba and Karagöz . Not only did these cartoons consistently imagine and present the Turkish nation as an extended family unit, but they also forwarded the message that the nation, in its child-like state, requires collective nourishment and protection. Likewise...

... further the opening that the journal created between area studies scholarship and the traditional academic disciplines. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 References Cheah Pheng . “ Universal Areas: Asian Studies in a World in Motion .” Traces 1 ( 2001 ): 37 – 70 . Hershatter...

..., lovingly described. Journalism is its closest analogue. Éden, Éden, Éden affects the nerves directly with the brutality of fact. If it is an ethical work, it offers an ethics of atrocity. Catastrophe is the subject of the book, and it is the fate of those subject to it. Duke University Press 2008...

...Partha Chatterjee In response to the discussion in this journal following the publication of “Nationalism, Internationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Some Observations from South Asian History”, this article looks closely at some methodological questions of comparative history. If the dissolution...

... in relation to postcolonial and literary studies, little is known about his connection to Arab American activism and scholarly production. Using the archives of the AAUG—including correspondence, position papers, memos, and the journal Arab Studies Quarterly —this article argues that the AAUG served...

... (1919–24). Focusing on alternative readings of Gandhi in Arabic, this piece explores the debates Gandhi’s thought instigated among three intellectuals affiliated with the Cairo-based Islamic modernist journal al-Manar (1898–1935): the Syrian-born Muhammad Rashid Rida (d. 1935), the Moroccan-born Taqi al...

... a surge of universalism in creation and criticism. It saw the rise of well-known professors of comparative literature who encouraged opening up African literature to other literature and also founded the first Nigerian journal of comparative literature. However, it was not until the beginning...

... of comparative literature in Iran. The second deals with the present state of comparative literature programs and journals at Iranian universities and academic centers. This section investigates the main challenges facing this discipline in Iran. The last part speculates on the future trends and directions...

... on the implications of revisiting the journal in relation to contemporary geopolitical realities. I wish to thank Ipshita Chanda and Bilal Hashmi for including this article in the special section of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East . I particularly appreciated Bilal’s unflagging...

... and teach about the Middle East. Lila Abu-Lughod, a member of the journal's editorial board, recently talked with the authors about the dynamics of the field. The book's final chapter examines the movement among anthropologists in support of a boycott of Israeli academic institutions. Just after the book's...

... factors, such as the hegemony of performance indexes and the journal impact factor, that are pushing the humanities (and sciences) in dangerous directions. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 humanities impact factor East Asia meritocracy References Craig Iain D. Ferguson Liz...

... . Boulder, CO : Paradigm , 2011 . Mitchell Timothy . “ Rethinking Economy .” Geoforum 39 ( 2008 ): 1116 – 21 . Mission Statement Responses see this new phase in the history of a well-­established scholarly journal as offering a major opportunity. That opportunity needs...