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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1995) 15 (1): 72–75.
Published: 01 May 1995
...Lungisile Ntsebeza © 1994: South Asia Bulletin 1995 Research Note
Land Demand, Availability and Use: Preliminary Reflections
on the Possibilities and Limits of the Land Reform Program
Lungisile Ntsebeza
The Government of National Unity...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (3): 455–472.
Published: 01 December 2018
... that the circulations that often characterize this postcolonial megacity should be thought alongside another set of circulations and flows: that of the ground itself. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 land reclamation infrastructure Anthropocene media studies coastal cities References...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (1): 160–175.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Nilay Özok-Gündoğan Özok-Gündoğan’s article examines the Ottoman state’s policy toward the hereditary yurtluk-ocaklik lands under the control of the Kurdish emirs in the mid-nineteenth century. Within the Tanzimat context, the Ottoman state set out to abolish this particular landownership pattern...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1981) 1 (2): 36–52.
Published: 01 August 1981
...Salman Aziz; Thomas Gray Copyright Regents of the University of California 1981 BIBLIOGRAPHY Adams , Dale W. 1973 “The Economics of Land Reform” Food Research Institute Studies In Agricultural Economics, Trade, and Development , Vol. XII , No. 2 . Allauddin , Talat...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 438–450.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Swagato Sarkar This essay engages with the commodification of land in an urban periphery of India. It argues against the tendency to reduce commodification of land to “primitive accumulation” or “accumulation by dispossession.” It presents an ethnography of the process of the commodification...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 275–292.
Published: 01 December 2023
... by focusing on the links between Ottoman property regimes, contemporary territorial claims, and legal pluralism. Using the case of a Palestinian camp built on land owned by the descendants of Ottoman Circassian refugees, the article illustrates how, on the one hand, Palestinians use hujaj to facilitate...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 434–448.
Published: 01 December 2010
... similarities between China and the Ottoman Empire may be a reflection of early attempts by Muslim Chinese to negotiate a distinct Chinese Islamic identity. Duke University Press 2011 Children of Cain in the Land of Error:
A Central Asian...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 249–261.
Published: 01 December 2023
... private property in land in the settler-colonial predicament as a process of double loss: of Indigenous land relations and ecologies, on the one hand, and national life and territory, on the other. To do so, the article privileges an actor-based history, which captures both the development of political...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (1): 137–155.
Published: 01 May 2015
... of Uganda kob made by his wife, Jimmie Buechner, Buechner was able to demonstrate the existence of a complex territorial breeding system in a mammal for the first time. The existence of such a system, like the ability of the Buechners to observe it, was in part a product of the colonial land regime, which...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 293–307.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Lucy Garbett Abstract This article is about an ownership dispute between two Palestinian families in the West Bank. The dispute moves between Palestinian and Israeli forums while drawing upon the legal patchwork of Ottoman, British, and Jordanian land laws, and Israeli military amendments...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1993) 13 (1_and_2): 134–147.
Published: 01 August 1993
...Bernard Hourcade; Afshin Matin-Asgari © 1993: South Asia Bulletin 1993 South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XI11 Nos. 1 & 2 (1993).
The Land Question and Islamic Revolution in Iran
Bernard Hourcade
(Translated from the French by Afshin Matin-Asgari)
Land reform...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1993) 13 (1_and_2): 23–34.
Published: 01 August 1993
... Development , 18 : 61 –75. Borgstrom , B-E. , 1980 . The Patron and the Panca: Village Values and Panchayat Democracy in Nepal (New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House). Caplan , L. , 1970 . Land and Social Change in East Nepal: A Study of Hindu-Tribal Relations (Berkeley: University...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 181–189.
Published: 01 August 2003
...KIMBERLY KATZ Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2003 Legitimizing Jordan as the Holy Land: Papal Pilgrimages—1964,
2000
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Pope Paul VI’s journey to the Holy Land in 1964, the associated with Muhammad’s “Night Journey and As-
first papal...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (1): 88–105.
Published: 01 May 2021
... and Bedouin farmers. 5 Important as this case is, it is just one part of a larger story of arid lands empire. 6 By developing a desert geopolitics approach to explain the history of ties between Saudi Arabia and Arizona, this article aims to open up a broader perspective on desert-to-desert connections...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 361–373.
Published: 01 December 2019
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in Muddy Waters: Coastal Property in India
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 2. Charles Hunt, Madras Landing , 1856. © British Library Board (P1551).
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in The Urbanism of Racial Capitalism: Toward a History of “Blight”
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 May 2020
Figure 3. “Ranking of races and nationalities with respect to their beneficial effect upon land value.” Hoyt, One Hundred Years of Land Value in Chicago , 316.
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 262–274.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Paul Kohlbry Abstract Palestinian Authority (PA) land titling began in 2005 as a means of creating property and sovereignty. Titling projects are extending government control over Palestinians, but they cannot secure their lands from Israeli state and private power. This article is an ethnography...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 51–56.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Debjani Bhattacharyya Abstract From the beginning of the twentieth century, new urban housing forms, including social housing, land pooling, and building syndicates, began to emerge as products of housing rights and labor movements. Yet this emergence cannot simply be accounted for by a history...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (2): 208–223.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Naz Yücel Abstract This article investigates the transformation of three coeval monarchs—Sultan Abdülhamid II (r. 1876–1909), Queen Victoria (r. 1837–1901), and King Leopold II (r. 1865–1909)—into private landed property owners in the late nineteenth century. In its comparisons, the article centers...
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