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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (1): 66–75.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Rohan Deb Roy The themed section “Nonhuman Empires” contributes to a critique of anthropocentrism in the field of imperial history. It reveals the variety of ways in which the historical trajectories of nonhuman animals and empires both intersected and informed one another. Beyond merely...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (3): 584–602.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Megnaa Mehtta Abstract The current ecological crisis and its accompanying environmental consciousness has prodded many to reject Western dualism and instead embrace animism. Taking the Sundarbans forests of India as a starting point, the author shows how several animated, nonhuman agents...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (3): 568–583.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Mayanthi Fernando Abstract If secularity ushered in the notion of humans as buffered subjects immune to nonhuman agents, recent attempts to recognize the agency of nonhumans and to see humans as always in relation to nonhumans—the natureculture turn—may be understood as both a posthumanist...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (1): 137–155.
Published: 01 May 2015
... and 1970s, biologists began to argue that conservation was more than a “numbers game”; it also required taking into account nonhuman traditions and social structures. The theory of biological territoriality thus became a conceptual tool for asserting nonhuman claims to land, often in competition with human...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (1): 156–172.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Sujit Sivasundaram By reconsidering how race operates at the intersection of the human-animal divide, this essay looks back on the paths that have been opened by the special section “Nonhuman Empires.” Rather than interrogating the literary entanglement of animality and race, the argument considers...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (3): 603–619.
Published: 01 December 2022
... on exchange are unavoidable when situated within historicity—analyses that emerged in the colonial period as a central way to understand Sikh literary production. Such a grasp on Punjab, the Sikh tradition, and historicity, however, is loosened when we consider the nonhuman. The nonhuman, in other words...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 565–583.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Nida Rehman Abstract This article explores plants, seeds, soils, and other nonhuman actors as archival and architectural agents within the history of Lahore's urban landscape, as seen from the ground. It traces the halting efforts of the Agri-Horticultural Society of Punjab to enact regional...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (3): 559.
Published: 01 December 2022
... Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 This issue opens with the special section “Other Than Human: Rethinking Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia,” edited by Rajbir Singh Judge and Parama Roy, which brings back to the fore a conversation on human–nonhuman interaction...
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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. Rajbir.Judge@csulb.edu proy@ucdavis.edu 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): 476–496.
Published: 01 December 2014
... of infrastructure-in-the-making sheds light on another, conceptual alliance. On one end, “thing theorists” argue for an understanding of infrastructures’ nonhuman, agentive capacity to assemble disparate people, things, and institutions. On the other end, political commentators propose, as many did, that meetings...
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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 (2020) 40 (3): 495–506.
Published: 01 December 2020
... to design and structure, aesthetics and affect, and the human and nonhuman in order to redefine the primary source. From the writings of a Sri Lankan architect, a capitol for a future Bangladesh, the princely state landscapes of a German-Indian planner, films of roads in Bhutan and Kashmir, gardens...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (3): 620–637.
Published: 01 December 2022
... children to wolves and ends in a missionary theology that claims wolf children as evidence of Christian grace and redemption. It underlines how unexpectedly significant a reckoning with the nonhuman was for evangelical theology and narrative in the colony, and how the narrative depended on trans-species...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (2): 199.
Published: 01 August 2015
... of essays argued that the inordinate focus on
I human actors and agency had precluded attention to nonhuman forces that shaped the conceptual
and physical geographies of empire.
This issue of the journal extends concerns with the shifting boundaries between human and non-
human to consider...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (1): 1.
Published: 01 May 2015
... through which political movements construct possible futures—to
understand the open-ended dynamic of popular movements as these configure political resources for
enacting futures anew.
“Nonhuman Empires” revisits the link between liberalism and empire, but from the perspective of
challenging...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (3): 437–445.
Published: 01 December 2017
... in that interpretation stands as a process of person- making. In short, the force that dwellings possess in urban environments such as Kuala Lumpur is located in the fact that they are often perceived as nonhuman persons capable of exerting certain forms of force proper to them within these envi- ronments. This claim...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (3): 638–655.
Published: 01 December 2022
...@unh.edu Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 husbandry enemy thanatopolitics nationalism Anglo-American imperium Where the edibility of the nonhuman animal is axiomatic, vegetarianism has always elicited a variety of responses that range from perplexity to mockery, sometimes...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 237–253.
Published: 01 May 2022
... Povinelli's Geontologies is one of the rare exceptions that engages with the virus as one of the three nonhuman figures (the animist, the desert, and the virus) that complicate the analysis of the Foucauldian biopolitics. While Geontologies provides a powerful trajectory to think about the virus...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (2): 222–231.
Published: 01 August 2015
... • Religions and the Religion of Animals 223
I point to these rituals of remembrance, wit- tion; however, these are also gestures that animate
nessing, and sacrifice as important registers for the the natural nonhuman world. In the chapter of
articulation of Islamic practice — even...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (2): 277–280.
Published: 01 August 2015
... . . .
ers all, continually challenge our simplistic cat- it was harder to make moral arguments for animal
egories, most importantly the basic dichotomy of sacrifice.” And they cite one of the many stories in
human/nonhuman. which coconuts...
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