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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (1): 151–152.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Paul Sedra The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt Omnia El Shakry Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007 xiii + 328 pp., $55.00 (cloth) Duke University Press 2010 The Crypto-Jewish Mashhadis: allow the small...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 663–666.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Valerie J. Hoffman Philosophising in Mombasa: Knowledge, Islam, and Intellectual Practice on the Swahili Coast Kai Kresse Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, for the International African Library, London, 2007 xvi, 288 pp., $120.00 (cloth), £70.00, (paper) Duke University Press 2011...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (3): 272–275.
Published: 01 December 2013
... in the name of a feeling ethics; (2) the production of knowledge at different institutional sites that might stand in a tense relation to authorized institutional discourses; and (3) dangerous developments in the rise of new subdisciplines such as global health, which have had serious consequences for freedom...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1996) 16 (1): 122–124.
Published: 01 May 1996
...Joseph E. Inikori © 1996: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1996 Inequalities in the Production of Historical Knowledge' Joseph E. lnikori Talking about inequalities presupposes the exis- raw material is selectively...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (2): 19–21.
Published: 01 August 2004
...Sheldon Pollock Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2004 - Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern South Asia: Introduction SHELDON POLLOCK The study...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 335–344.
Published: 01 August 2003
...AGBENYEGA ADEDZE Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2003 In the Pursuit of Knowledge and Power: French Scienctific Research in West Africa, 1938-65 AGBENYEGA ADEDZE As agents of scientific colonization, the governors of modality, the survey modality...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (2): 239–256.
Published: 01 August 2013
... . The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2005 . “We Unite with Knowledge” The Peoples’ Friendship University and Soviet Education for the Third World Abigail Judge Kret n February 1960 the Soviet...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (2): 213–229.
Published: 01 August 2009
... that is itself structured by modernity. Second, secret knowledge transforms what is in fact impossible—immortality, transcendence, enlightenment—into a historical vortex that is both local and global. Mimetic history is the recursive pattern, structured through the paradox of secrecy, whereby the impossibility...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (2): 296–311.
Published: 01 August 2019
... Islamic activists perceive as the destructive effects of Western culture and to align the production of knowledge with the teachings of Shi'i Islam. The effort to produce modern Islamic knowledge, however, has paradoxically intensified the translation of European thought and invested it with the ethos...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 513–527.
Published: 01 December 2019
... the experience of elders who had lived in Mecca and their knowledge of the Ka‘ba's positioning vis-à-vis stars and winds. 8 In each case, the jurists' impulse, and indeed their dominant practice, was to privilege observation, perception, and sensory participation in the world over mathematics and abstract...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (2): 309–321.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Heike Liebau Abstract This essay explores networks of knowledge exchange and practices of knowledge production between South Asian Muslims and academic circles in Germany between 1915 and 1930. It centers on the brothers Abdul Jabbar Kheiri and Abdul Sattar Kheiri and foregrounds their interaction...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (3): 676–680.
Published: 01 December 2022
.... Female same-sex cultures thrived on a tacit knowledge that operated in the absence of a public discourse of sexual orientation. It was thus a struggle to find women who do not recognize themselves in the “grand identarian schemes” of feminist or queer solidarities that “assume a joint identity or engage...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 386–397.
Published: 01 December 2023
..., whether at Bandung (1955), Belgrade (1961), or Cairo (1964), events that receive the bulk of scholarly interest in nonalignment's trajectory and significance, nonalignment occurred at a different scale. Scrutinizing nonalignment's intellectual history can reveal forms of knowledge that can be salvaged...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (2): 263–276.
Published: 01 August 2024
... this, the article grates against the assumption that researchers who share a “race,” citizenship, language, or ethnicity and who are “from” the Arab region are de facto well placed to pursue decolonial knowledge production alongside the region and its dwellers. The article consequently posits the possibility...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 402–406.
Published: 01 December 2024
... the implications of these discriminatory practices for Palestinian students and staff with regard to psychological well-being, experiences of acquiring and producing knowledge, and the ethics of the research in which they participate as assistants, surveyors, or local informants have received little attention...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 423–427.
Published: 01 December 2024
... between foreign donors and local researchers indicate who is considered the producer of knowledge and who the owner of it. The essay draws on personal experiences from the author's work in Jordan to think through what this means in terms of power/knowledge structures on the ground and what can be done...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 226–234.
Published: 01 August 2017
... Practices and Metaphysics of Knowledge Notes on Nationalism, Internationalism, and Cosmopolitanism Siba Grovogui n reflecting on Partha Chatterjee’s essay “Nationalism, Internationalism, and Cosmopolitanism,” I would like to offer...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (1): 204–212.
Published: 01 May 2016
... strategies of bifurcation problematizing asymmetrical zonings and scale making, thereby redefining the nature and terms of science (itself a naturalized modern knowledge formation) without fantasizing a greater sense of knowing or transcendence from ontological specificities and multiplicities. © 2016...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 526–540.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Rachel Lee Abstract Drawing on experiences of researching India's architectural history, this article explores the affect generated by architectural archives as a source of knowledge. It traces the affective life of the archives and practices of a singular historical figure: Otto Koenigsberger...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 495–506.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi Abstract Drawing from histories of art and architecture, urbanism and planning, landscape, infrastructure, and media, this themed section is premised upon framing architecture beyond the terms of aesthetics or technology toward its agency as a form of knowledge...
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