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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 451–465.
Published: 01 December 2015
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The Productive Nature of Ambiguity in the Hindi Film Industry
Tejaswini Ganti
n 2006 the Hindustan Times covered the apparent controversy raging in the Hindi film industry,
now better known as Bollywood, over an advertisement that appeared in trade magazines as well as
I some...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (1): 155–163.
Published: 01 May 2018
... Asian Languages, Vernaculars, and Literacies, 1000–1919 , edited by Elman Benjamin , 254 – 301 . Leiden : E. J. Brill , 2014 . Shirane Haruo . Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts . New York : Columbia University Press , 2012 . Shirane...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (3): 360–370.
Published: 01 December 2009
... of the role of religion in the education system. Duke University Press 2009 The Dynamic Nature of Educational
Policies and Turkish Nation Building:
Where Does Religion Fit...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (1): 71–87.
Published: 01 May 2021
... to the natural world. References Abd-El-Al Ibrahim . “ Al-Mashari‘ al-ma'iyya fi Lubnan ” (“Water Projects in Lebanon”). Conférences du Cénacle 2 , nos. 3–4 ( 1948 ): 109 – 39 . Abd-El-Al Ibrahim . “ Énergies libanaises ” (“Lebanese Energies”). Conférences du Cénacle 6 , nos. 1–2...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1995) 15 (2): 109–118.
Published: 01 August 1995
... the complete neglect of these “natural” limiting factors. The authors also examine the socio-political forces and the ideological elements which result in the neglect of climatic and geographical factors. © 1995: South Asia Bulletin 1995 Green Revolution in Kerala: A Discourse...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (2): 281–290.
Published: 01 August 2009
... gods. with ormerged pantheon the to added ers teach Brahman that gods ism to nature a on local including later base, elaboration a popular Hindu and ritual older the priestly as refer Brahmanism to of religion Historians Hinduism. of aspect priestly the describes last...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 86–103.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Chandana Anusha Abstract The Mundra Port on the Gulf of Kutch in western India is one of India's largest port projects today. This article takes the port-circulated narrative of the coast being a natural harbor as its starting point, to show how fresh water was central to official maritime projects...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 3–17.
Published: 01 May 2024
.... In the 1960s and 1970s, Iranian officials sought to build a new industry via the Shahpur Petrochemical Complex, a choice enabled by the unexpected availability of high-sulfur natural gas within the existing spaces of Iran's oil industry, and one that faced opposition from British Petroleum, which operated...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (3): 568–583.
Published: 01 December 2022
... and postsecularist project. Yet this scholarship has largely restricted nonhumans to entities previously classified as “natural” phenomena, leaving “supernatural” beings out of the conversation and leaving the distinction between nature and supernature intact. Fernando argues that fully undoing the nature/culture...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (3): 561–567.
Published: 01 December 2022
... one that is incommensurable rather than compatible with protocols of legibility and recognition, as well as the calculations these involve. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 nature nonhuman recognition secularity translation...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 437–439.
Published: 01 December 2014
... This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. infrastructure colonialism corporations energy nature LIFE OF INFRASTRUCTURE
Introduction
Life of Infrastructure
Timothy Mitchell...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (1): 25–39.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Leila M. Harris This article draws on recent interventions related to everyday states, state-natures, and political ecologies of the state, as well as Timothy Mitchell’s concept of “state as effect,” to detail and analyze ongoing changes in southeastern Turkey associated with the large-scale...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (2): 246–262.
Published: 01 August 2015
... is the question of who belongs and what it means to belong in terms of moral and material access to resources. This essay further suggests that monkeys — the nonhuman actors in this story — play an important part in shaping the nature of these conversations about cultural meaning and belonging. Recognizing...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 476–496.
Published: 01 December 2014
... like this one index “environmental citizenship” premised on the recognition of common responsibility for a vulnerable environment. Both suggest nature’s physical properties—e.g., aquifers’ vulnerability to toxic wastes—seemed to have brought sworn enemies together, thereby exceeding or bypassing...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (1): 24–48.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Ranin Kazemi This article focuses on one of the most serious cases of famine in Iran in the nineteenth century. Reading through a wide range of contemporary documents, Kazemi uses this episode as a case study to talk about the larger problem of subsistence crises and natural disasters in Iran...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 449–462.
Published: 01 December 2010
... contradictory imagery—from which we still borrow—shows us Iran as the complex place that it was but also as a reflection of Europe's own foibles and anxieties, as the self seen through the other. Enlightenment thinkers, grappling with questions about human nature and the essence of power, juxtaposed the glories...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (2): 455–473.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Nina Farnia This article examines the racialization of Iran and Iranians by excavating the treatment of Iran in the naturalization cases from the early twentieth century. In so doing, the article highlights both the continuities and disjunctures of a racialization process that began long before...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (1): 204–212.
Published: 01 May 2016
... strategies of bifurcation problematizing asymmetrical zonings and scale making, thereby redefining the nature and terms of science (itself a naturalized modern knowledge formation) without fantasizing a greater sense of knowing or transcendence from ontological specificities and multiplicities. © 2016...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (1): 1–12.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Saad Abi-Hamad This article examines the nature of the colonial state as it existed in Egypt at the turn of the twentieth century. It delves into issues surrounding the multiple societal relations that the colonial state had to maintain to ensure its continued existence. It also considers the very...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (2): 277–290.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Neilesh Bose; Victor V. Ramraj Abstract As the debate over historical antecedents to contemporary forms of lex mercatoria suggests, the nature of legal authority appears to be changing into a less familiar, more pluralistic form, even as states struggle to reassert their power. In seeking...
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