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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 135–139.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Laleh Khalili Abstract In this essay Khalili surveys the maritime as a space of commodification and of creation of new financial forms and instruments. Maritime transportation made possible the colonization of the Americas, Asia, and Africa and the enslavement and transoceanic commodification...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (2): 266–276.
Published: 01 August 2020
... in article III:17 of the Nomos Rhodion Nautikos, form the legal basis of the maritime qirad ? What legal features characterized the chreokoinonia and the qirad ? How did the chreokoinonia and the qirad agreements treat the transporting ship? And, which of the two commercial methods...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 86–103.
Published: 01 May 2024
... government transport official in 1952, however, the rationale that maritime trade would follow once maritime infrastructures were built was considered absurd: “There are no doubt a number of creeks and river mouths where Harbours could be constructed but what for is the question,” 52 wrote the transport...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 407–419.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Nidhi Mahajan Abstract Ever since 9/11, dhows , or Indian Ocean sailing vessels, have been viewed as inherently threatening to national and international security, as government authorities suspect that they are used to smuggle weapons and militants. Most recently, dhows that transport charcoal...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (2): 322–328.
Published: 01 August 2020
... “Indological” approach remained dominant both in intellectual and institutional terms. The Institute for Maritime Transport and World Economy in Kiel, founded in 1914, was one of the academic centers associated with the new tendency. 7 Its journal Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv ( Archive of the World Economy...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (2): 139–145.
Published: 01 August 2023
... dialogue between the maritime past and the present has, in the past two decades, called into question the anthropological assumptions that underlay traditional area studies in the Anglo-American academy. 7 It has led to a critical reexamination of what constitutes a “region” or “space” and how...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (2): 176–190.
Published: 01 August 2023
... terracentric views enable us to see media history differently? Is it worth asking whether oceanic transport transforms the value of the media good? How does the persistence of maritime colonialism infiltrate the structures of smuggling a new commodity form in film and media? In conducting this act...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 118–134.
Published: 01 May 2024
... In January 2021, article author Nikhil Anand used WhatsApp to send a historic map of Mumbai harbor to Ganesh Nakhwa, a young fisher from a fishing family in Karanja village, in Uran. Ganesh was active in fisher movements. Nikhil met him at the protests against the Ministry of Surface Transport's Sagarmala...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 565–573.
Published: 01 December 2014
... : Shoestring Press , 1961 . McDonnell Mary . “ The Conduct of the Hajj from Malaysia and Its Socio-Economic Impact on Malay Society .” PhD diss. , Columbia University , 1986 . Meloy John . Imperial Power and Maritime Trade: Mecca and Cairo in the Later Medieval Ages . Chicago...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1999) 19 (1): 122–136.
Published: 01 May 1999
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the 19’h century marked a period of unparalleled current invasions of cholera visitation into Europe.”28
growth in international trade and transport. The The delegates all agreed that epidemics of Asiatic
ubiquity of railroads and maritime links to the Middle cholera were endemic to the Ganges...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 107–117.
Published: 01 May 2022
.... More generally, texts like these formed part of the infrastructure through which circulation took place in the maritime marketplace. By thinking through these marketplace genres, we can gain a more textured sense of the processes of knowing, measuring, abstracting, and circulating that underpinned...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 91–106.
Published: 01 May 2022
... in which maritime potentates and influential merchants were able to co-opt imperial policies and profit from this transition. Over the course of the nineteenth century, violent coercion was expunged from the skillset of Arabian Sea merchants, but only after compensating merchants and coastal communities...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 118–134.
Published: 01 May 2022
... witnessed a fight between the British, on the one hand, and the nationalist Egyptians, on the other, who wished to challenge the carte blanche that the British had by virtue of managing these maritime conduits of goods. “Customs dues,” to borrow from a Balagh newspaper article, were “the main source...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 104–117.
Published: 01 May 2024
... notes, settler-colonial systems adopted the Torrens system of land registration and transfer, which was derived from maritime shipping registration. 13 Littoral property-making did not flow from sovereign right, nor could it rely on land settlement or seizure, or land acquisition law. Rather...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 81–85.
Published: 01 May 2024
... by the rise of containerized shipping, have radically transformed ports and the instruments that finance them. The logistics revolution introduced fast-paced transformations in automatizing labor. It also accelerated the potential of integrating transport through new technologies like the standard shipping...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 473–490.
Published: 01 December 2010
... simple that there
been previously transported. But in Asia the is not the least chance of their being put out of
previous centuries had seen only a maritime order, or liable to the least accident from wear.” 2 0
pattern of the diffusion...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1999) 19 (2): 9–15.
Published: 01 August 1999
... at
cut from the swamps of northern Pemba. This, Micheweni was one where East African, Arab, and In-
though, raised another concern. What would be the dian capital, labor, and transportation operated across
effect of extensive mangrove cutting in northern colonial political frontiers...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1999) 19 (2): 16–23.
Published: 01 August 1999
... generations. The story
huge contracts were issued to build docks, ware- they told was the fraternal one of understanding and
houses, and all the other infrastructure needed to trust, until I showed them photocopies of two court
serve British maritime and military interests. Pursuing cases from...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 492–504.
Published: 01 December 2015
... and
cal aspects of the United Arab Emirates and the advisers from Europe to depict India’s plants, ani-
global maritime trade. The technological advances mals, and architecture. In this ethnographic and
reflected in the recent animation work since 2010 anthropologically oriented...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2000) 20 (1-2): 138–152.
Published: 01 August 2000
... the Caspian Now that he is a vice president, Cheney is giving
governments and the western oil companies that are cover to our oilmen overseas who were convinced
reluctant to build the new expensive pipelines mapped several years ago that transporting the oil via Iran
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