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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (2): 250–261.
Published: 01 August 2010
... that Afghan women are caught on the frontlines of this “aid battlefield,” both as “nation builders” celebrated by the U.S. administration as examples of liberal-imperial victory and as “nation betrayers” of their culture and traditions for their participation in internationally facilitated programs. I suggest...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (3): 492–501.
Published: 01 December 2012
... Ma”: FromFrom Nation Nation to to “Inter”- “Inter”- Nation Nation Animesh Baidya n the subcontinent was partitioned into India and West and East Pakistan...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (1): 125–126.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra The Nation Writ Small: African Fictions and Feminisms, 1958–1988 Andrade Susan Z. Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2011 272 pp. , $89.95 ( cloth ); $24.95 ( paper ) © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 BOOK REVIEWS The Nation Writ Small...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (3): 279–294.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Tahir H. Naqvi Pakistan’s first military dictatorship launched the Basic Democracies scheme in 1960, after a bloodless coup that dissolved political parties and legislative institutions. Naqvi’s essay considers how the architects of the “BD system” reconceived the Pakistani nation in response...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (1): 35–49.
Published: 01 May 2015
... and Nation: Scientists, International Networks, and Power in India . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2010 . Annual Report of the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India, 1969-70 . Delhi : Atomic Energy Commission , 1970 . Annual Report of the Department of Atomic Energy...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1991) 11 (1_and_2): 136–142.
Published: 01 August 1991
...Lawrence S. Wittner Copyright 1992: South Asia Bulletin 1991 South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XI, Nos. 1 & 2 (1991) Nuclear Weapons, Resistance, and the Nation-State System Lawrence S. Wittner Although the end of the Cold War and the recent Therefore, when it became clear...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 601–606.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Michael Collins Abstract In addressing the relationship between national and international worldmaking political projects, Adom Getachew's impressive and thought-provoking recent book, Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination , seeks to move beyond recent debates between...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 613–621.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Adam Dahl Abstract Rejecting the rigid dichotomy between anticolonial nationalism and postnational solidarity, Adom Getachew's Worldmaking after Empire argues that anticolonial leaders in the Caribbean and Africa did not outright reject the nation-state in their quest for self-determination...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (2): 166–174.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Naomi Haynes Abstract In October 2015 the Zambian president broke ground on a new National House of Prayer, a building project meant to reaffirm the country's status as Africa's only self-proclaimed “Christian nation.” Over the next four years architects produced three separate sets of plans...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 423–440.
Published: 01 December 2021
... companion, heads bowed as the national anthem played. Inside the stadium, Safaricom's management was seated on a raised dais. Shareholders sat in bleachers, gazing down at this international cadre of men and women who were flanked by flags and bunting the colors of the Kenyan flag, the secondary green...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 391–399.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Sam Okoth Opondo Opondo's essay focuses on the theoretical stakes of the debates in Frederick Cooper's Citizenship between Empire and Nation and looks at how ethnological reason haunts the debates over how to govern different people differently while at the same time articulating the language...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 407–420.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Eric Lewis Beverley Abstract Scholarship on modern South Asia, even in accounting for the fragility and capriciousness of colonial authority and exploring tensions between popular sovereignty and politics on the ground, tends to regard colonial or national states and institutions as the sole...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (3): 360–370.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Yeşim Bayar This article looks into how religion was situated within the educational policies of the early republican era (1920–38) in Turkey. The existing literature on Turkish nation building treats the educational policies of the time as solely and unchangingly directed toward...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (3): 371–380.
Published: 01 December 2009
..., is premised on particular definitions of religion, the roots of which are historically contingent and intimately linked to the rise of the modern nation-state. As the article argues, a particular conception of Islam is integrated into the nation-state's projects of rationalization, homogenization...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (3): 398–412.
Published: 01 December 2009
... disloyal to their nation and their state. Duke University Press 2009 Christian and Turkish: Secularist Fears of a Converted Nation Esra Özyürek The crisis...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (3): 567–569.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Gavin Brockett Turkey: From Empire to Revolutionary Republic; The Emergence of the Turkish Nation from 1789 to Present Sina Akşin New York: New York University Press, 2007 335 pp., $70.00 (cloth), $22.00 (paper) Duke University Press 2008...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (3): 483–501.
Published: 01 December 2009
... a Libanist or Arabist national identity of some sort. Studies on Lebanon have rarely attended to the voices from below, or class and provincial engagements with colonialism. My article focuses on Shiite peasants and rural workers in the south struggling against a wide range of dislocations and civil...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (2): 339–341.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Ananya Jahanara Kabir Lines of the Nation: Indian Railway Workers, Bureaucracy, and the Intimate Historical Self Laura Bear New York: Columbia University Press, 2007 xii + 346 pp., $49.00 (cloth) Duke University Press 2009 Being Modern in the Middle...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (3): 569–587.
Published: 01 December 2011
... making as the Ottoman Empire ended and the Turkish nation was built. Through composer biographies and ethnographic methodologies of oral history within an interdisciplinary theoretical approach, the analysis seeks to articulate the places and people circulating in a late Ottoman music world and sharing...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (3): 644–657.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Laura C. Robson Scholars have situated Najib ‘Azuri’s famous book Le reveil de la nation arabe (1905) primarily within the context of two major historiographical debates: the origins of Arab nationalism and the beginnings of an Arab-Jewish conflict in twentieth-century Palestine. Both...