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Mediated Politics in the Middle East: Introduction
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (3): 509–512.
Published: 01 December 2007
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Music Mediating Politics in Turkey: The Case of Ahmed Adnan Saygun
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (3): 552–562.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Kathryn Woodard © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 Music Mediating Politics in Turkey:
The Case of Ahmed Adnan Saygun
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PLO Cultural Activism: Mediating Liberation Aesthetics in Revolutionary Contexts
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (2): 354–364.
Published: 01 August 2018
... strategized popular culture to enhance its image, create a new visibility for Palestinians, and mediate a Palestinian-centric liberation aesthetic rooted in real experiences of, and participation in, the Palestinian revolution. The PLO’s cultural activism combined an agential understanding of what it means...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (1): 2–7.
Published: 01 May 2015
... of hope and struggle, individual and collective, often lacking what movements are reckoned by: leaders, blueprints, manifestos, and cadre. Their performative and material practices of communication, and modes of mediation more broadly, are increasingly prominent, and increasingly difficult to separate...
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Gender, Performance, and the Politics of Space: Germany and the Veil in Popular Culture
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (1): 89–101.
Published: 01 May 2012
... as mediators between cultures. In spite of being rather prescriptive, the mediator role also opens up spaces for critical intervention in the German media landscape. Unless otherwise noted, all translations are my own. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012...
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Of Property and Propriety: The Role of Gender and Class in Imperialism and Nationalism : A Decade Later
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (2): 262–271.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Himani Bannerji; Shahrzad Mojab; Judith Whitehead This essay, written in reflection of earlier work, introduces the themes needed to analyze forms of gender and class oppression as these have been mediated through, and by, hegemonic projects of imperialism and nationalism. It argues that the gender...
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The Oil Town of Ahmadi since 1946: From Colonial Town to Nostalgic City
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (1): 41–58.
Published: 01 May 2013
... of Ahmadi’s expatriate population with a Kuwaiti one. As a result of this demographic shift, Alissa argues, the urban modernity experienced in Ahmadi by the Kuwaiti employees of KOC during the 1960s and 1970s mediated drastically new and modern lifestyles that rendered it a nostalgic city in the nation’s...
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“A Language Which Is Foreign to Us”: Continuities and Anxieties in the Making of the Indian Constitution
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (2): 228–242.
Published: 01 August 2014
... mediate a thoroughgoing transformation of social conditions in a controlled and deliberate manner. Therefore, they sought to maintain continuities with the executive apparatus of the colonial state for two reasons: one, to maintain a coherent state machinery that was capable of intervening...
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The Point of Nonreturn: The Reemergence of the Disavowed
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (3): 268–271.
Published: 01 December 2013
... mediating the views and needs of Western scholarship. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 References “Decolonising Our Universities.” Official Portal, Universiti Sains Malaysia . Last updated 13 June 2013 . www.usm.my/index.php/en/about-usm/making-a-difference/decolonising-our...
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How War Shaped Egypt's National Bread Loaf
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (1): 49–63.
Published: 01 May 2017
... the acceleration of income inequality in rural areas and a huge increase in wheat consumption in cities. The article argues the long-term success of this regime depended on both the improvement of surveillance and coercive technocracy mediated through the military courts and the naturalization of public attitudes...
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The Outside ( Kharij ) of Tradition in the Aftermath of the Revolution: Carl Schmitt and Islamic Knowledge in Postrevolutionary Iran
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (2): 296–311.
Published: 01 August 2019
... centered in a seminar in which seminarian-academics translate Carl Schmitt, among others, to make sense of, and intervene in, Islamic politics. It highlights how European concepts and forms of thought come to mediate the relation between seminarian-academics and the Islamic tradition, its forms...
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History in Pakistan and the Will to Architecture
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 171–183.
Published: 01 May 2019
... relationship to the past is mediated through architecture—as professional practice, as physical object, but also as metaphor for thought. Arguing that public history projects in the country evince a “will to architecture”—the desire to erect a stable edifice in the face of a vertiginous historicity...
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Birha : Approaching a Poetics beyond the Human
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (3): 603–619.
Published: 01 December 2022
..., challenges the overt focus on history, conquest, and vision that undergirds our understanding of the Punjabi literary scene by functioning as an impediment to mediation, translation, and recognition. The focus on the nonhuman is not to offer a more robust or precise recognition to Punjab but to disarticulate...
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Empowering the “Ecosystem”: The Coding School as a Foil for Markets in Lebanon
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (2): 249–262.
Published: 01 August 2024
... on a seemingly peripheral actor within this ecosystem, the coding school, both as a window into the ecosystem's political machinery and as a surprisingly important site through which its wider interests are mediated. This focus explores how the coding school generates so-called empowerment conceived largely...
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Precarious Songs: The Taṉippāṭal , Tamil Genre Theory, and Comparative Literary Criticisms of South Asia
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 492–507.
Published: 01 December 2024
... of using South Asian styles of literary criticism for both reading individual poems and theorizing genre. It proposes that continued research on comparative literary criticisms is productive for mediating the current methodological demands of area studies and comparative literary studies. 75. Bhavani...
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Voices from the African Diaspora in India: Lyric Poetry in the Sidi Sufi Devotional Tradition
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 508–520.
Published: 01 December 2024
... contexts to characterize the Sidi devotional tradition as Sufi. At the heart of this tradition is the Sufi practice of remembrance of God, the Prophet, and Sufi saints, especially the Sidi ancestor-saints. In Sidi ritual contexts, remembrance engenders ecstatic states through which devotees mediate...
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Populist Publics: Print Capitalism and Crowd Violence beyond Liberal Frameworks
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (1): 50–65.
Published: 01 May 2015
... it has focused on this paradox of mediation at the center of modern political life. Whereas liberal theories of the public sphere sought to distinguish a rational reading public forged through a dialectic self-abstraction from what Habermas once termed “pressure from the street,” recent work...
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On Inexactitude in Decolonization
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 627–635.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Arash Davari Abstract This essay extends themes in Adom Getachew's Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (2019) by introducing Iran as a mediating element in Cold War worldmaking. It recovers the story of Pahlavi Iran's diplomatic efforts during the Sixth Special...
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Televised Tears: Artifice and Ambivalence in Islamic Preaching
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (2): 153–165.
Published: 01 August 2021
... the mass-mediated artifice of preacherly weeping provokes expressions of religious ambivalence about an otherwise authoritative ritual practice. While televised tears facilitate the sense of intimacy that many viewers identify as key to their religious adherence, the preacher's lachrymose passion...
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Theorizing Law, Social Movements, and State Formation in India
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 20–35.
Published: 01 May 2022
... each other across this longue durée , and that this co-constitution has been both mediated by and inscribed in law. Crucially, we focus on the making and unmaking of compromise equilibriums between dominant and subaltern social forces in state-society relations in and through law and legal formations...
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