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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 143–158.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Jakob Krais Abstract During the 1920s and 1930s, French Algeria and Italian Libya witnessed spectacular motor-sports events: desert rallies as well as car races on closed circuits. Speed sports events, in this context, served three main purposes: they integrated or reconquered the colonial...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 1–2.
Published: 01 May 2019
..., and environmental pollution. Pascal Menoret traces the relationship between the Saudi desert and its association with (masculine) cultures of the car, adventure, and control. Jakob Krais's piece analyzes the spectacle of motor sports and desert rallies and closed-circuit car races in interwar French Algeria...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 518–531.
Published: 01 December 2014
... participate in, and depart from, automobility paradigms that take the global North as the primary site of historical research and interest by providing insights into the ways in which the motor vehicle not only served a utilitarian function, but also contributed to particular constructions of class, gender...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1994) 14 (2): 108–114.
Published: 01 August 1994
... on the fisheries sector,
panying move to improve the traditional crafts reported in 1989 that, of the total marine fish land-
which were found unsuitable for sporting motors. It ings in 1981-85, the non-motorized crafts ac-
was a non-government organization in Kerala that counted for 29 percent...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 159–169.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Mehdi Sakatni Abstract A conventional view of nomadic tribes is that motorization—the passage from animal to automobile transportation—brought about the transformation and eventually the obliteration of the nomadic pastoralist lifestyle in the long twentieth century. But through the example...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 541–564.
Published: 01 December 2020
...: A Freudian Impression .” Diacritics 25 , no. 2 ( 1995 ): 9 – 63 . Dimendberg Edward . “ The Will to Motorization: Cinema, Highways, and Modernity: For Wolf Donner, in Memoriam .” October 73 ( 1995 ): 91 – 137 . doi.org/10.2307/779010 . Edwards Penny . “ The Tyranny of Proximity...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2006) 26 (3): 476–490.
Published: 01 December 2006
... Bagan, a
team of Calcutta Bengalis, came to an end on 29 July 1911. So electrifying was the victory for
the Bengalis that many started tearing their shirts and waving them in the air. Even members
of the Moslem Sporting...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (1): 117–136.
Published: 01 May 2015
... and Chilled Meat Trade: A Practical Treatise by Specialists in the Trade , 1 : 31 – 100 . London : Gresham , 1929 . Griffin Emma . Blood Sport: Hunting in Britain since 1066 . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2007 . Harley C. Knick . “ Steers Afloat: The North Atlantic Meat...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (1): 81–100.
Published: 01 May 2004
..., when the
glamorous tie-ins to the world of film. In “Women’s government was encouraging but not compelling
Sports: Fifteen Minutes With Micheline Presle,” the unveiling, the use of feminine images in advertising
reader could read about the exercise routines of the or news coverage did not change...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (3): 656–667.
Published: 01 December 2022
..., the dog walked out into the street and was nearly hit, first by a motor scooter and then by a car. I screamed; Dipesh turned to look. He shrugged and said, “She's old.” One is the Gandhian ethic of “living by dying,” which entails foremost a break with the comforts of certainty and a commitment...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (3): 611–621.
Published: 01 December 2012
..., Khaza Akmal, and gang of the villain (Nasrullah), another land- Indigenization of (Post)ColonialCinema in South Asia:
Khaza Zahir. Ambuj Gupta, a sports instructor lord, kidnap Lolita. Azmal finds Lolita in Nas-
for most of these nawabs, played the directorial rullah’s bedroom...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 286–300.
Published: 01 August 2003
... in a mass sport like soccer in the
that the relative absence of Bengali capital in Calcutta 1930s.101 In fact, bhadralok initiative in such spheres
should be viewed as an indication that Bengalis were often overlapped, as in the case of Birendranath Sircar
responding to new opportunities...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (1): 20–37.
Published: 01 May 2008
... extreme sports, real- a frenzy of compulsion, repetition, and retribu-
ity shows, etc., which both embody and displace tion, the obscene and self-righteous desire to
this insatiable passion du réel). Such configura- raise the threshold of the desert beyond any
tions of the passion for the real...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (2): 318–340.
Published: 01 August 2005
... a report from Anzali in Anjuman (Council)
groups among constitutionalists who sported this
Tarikh-i Bidari-i Iranian: Moqadamih (The History (Tabriz), year 1, no. 64, 26 Safar AH 1325 (10 April 1907);
style of clothing. On other related Iranian discourses...
