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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (1): 59–74.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Nelida Fuccaro Fuccaro’s article explores new geographies of leisure and consumption that emerged in Manama and in Bahrain’s oil camps in the first decades of oil development. New forms of public communication such as the press, printed materials, and cinema are used to explore urban spaces, actors...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (1): 75–88.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Mona Damluji As the most widely circulated cinematic portrait of Abadan under full administration of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), the AIOC film Persian Story offers an exceptional opportunity to examine the ways in which the British company linked the idea of modernity to the image...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2001) 21 (1-2): 110–117.
Published: 01 August 2001
...Kamrouz Pirouz Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2002 Iran's Oil Nationalization: Musaddiq at the United Nations
and His Negotiations with George McGhee
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Kamrouz Pirouz
Faced with Iran’s oil...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 May 2013
... and Kaveh Ehsani for their help and comments. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Introduction
Histories of Oil and Urban Modernity in the Middle East
Nelida Fuccaro...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (1): 7–25.
Published: 01 May 2013
... the demolished pre-oil town during the first three decades of oil urbanization was more of a spectacle than a lived reality. Although the state exerted much effort and expense between 1951 and 1971 in planning for the development of a capital city to celebrate Kuwait’s newfound prosperity and progress, certain...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (1): 26–40.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Arbella Bet-Shlimon Bet-Shlimon’s article considers the question of how, in the urban arena of Kirkuk, oil acted as a catalyst for development projects in which political, economic, and ideological threads were inextricably intertwined. It contends that the presence of oil in Kirkuk created certain...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (1): 41–58.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Reem Alissa This article highlights the role of oil as an agent of political, social, and cultural change at the level of the everyday urban experience by introducing the company town as a modern architectural and urban prototype that has been largely neglected in the study of the Middle East...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (3): 487–494.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Kamrouz Pirouz After becoming prime minister for the second time, and having won the oil nationalization case at the World Court, Muhammad Musaddiq was hopeful that the British would be more compromising in their approach toward the oil nationalization issue. He was also hopeful of the American...
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Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 4. Information sheet distributed to fishers detailing the oil exploration research zones in which fishing is discouraged. Shared by anonymous fisher, Mumbai.
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in What Makes a Natural Harbor?: Naturalizing Port Development along the Gulf of Kutch, Western India
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 2a. An oil tanker inside the multicommodity megaport, August 2012. Courtesy of Shivani Shedde.
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 3–17.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Ciruce Movahedi-Lankarani Abstract As a major source of energy and revenue, “oil” has been rightly seen as a driver of the world's far-reaching twentieth-century social, political, and cultural transformations. But this conceptual abstraction of petroleum as a homogenous substance—lifted...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 471–484.
Published: 01 December 2023
... the mid-1970s and the mid-1980s. It argues that the mobility channels between the two countries took shape not through oil and state governance alone, but also through US military complexes formed through a series of wars across East, Southeast, and West Asia following the Second World War; acute interest...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 551–558.
Published: 01 December 2019
... local government councils covering the last seven decades. The political settlements that have arisen through different conjunctures and across the turbulent history of oil busts and booms need to be clearly explicated if both state effects and the political work of corruption claims are to be fully...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (1): 195–213.
Published: 01 May 2012
... with his dismissal as the Iranian minister counselor in Paris in 1934 — shows him as a mature politician, no longer idealistic but still hoping to contribute to Iran’s sociopolitical development under Reza Shah Pahlavi’s new regime. It is in this phase that he signs the Anglo-Iranian oil agreement of 1933...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (1): 120–123.
Published: 01 May 2011
... forces and their opposition to all that the West represented, including Western secular values; (3) the formation of the state of Israel and Zionism , which continued to represent the viscous face of occupation and the misrepresentation of secularism; and (4) oil and the Saudi-backed Wahhabi movement...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 81–85.
Published: 01 May 2024
... of a country's geopolitical aspirations. Port constructions engineer rigid boundaries between land and sea, rendering coastlines vulnerable to sea-level rise. Port operations generate effluents from imports like coal and oil that contaminate coastal environments, with devastating consequences for ecologies...
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Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 3. Fishing in an eviscerated sea. The shaded polygons indicate some areas in which fishing is not permitted on account of oil wells, pipelines, and ship traffic in the Mumbai region. Fishing is also not permitted near the shaded oil pipelines that join these oilfields to their processing
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2000) 20 (1-2): 138–152.
Published: 01 August 2000
... terminate in Turkey. These costly
nomics and geopolitics in the early 1990s, there was a projects, the Baku-Jeyhan oil pipeline and the Trans-
great deal of ground to speculate on future develop- Caspian gas pipeline from Turkmenistan, never made
ments. Of late, Caspian scholarship is getting increas...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2002) 22 (1-2): 127–139.
Published: 01 August 2002
... from the scenes at places like Jafar land. One of the most lucrative enterprises has been oil
Jabbarly Square across the railway terminal in central Baku. smuggling, in tankers that run to Georgia, Turkey, Ukraine,
The square, like similar sites in all Azeri cities, has been trans- Russia, and even...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 118–134.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Figure 4. Information sheet distributed to fishers detailing the oil exploration research zones in which fishing is discouraged. Shared by anonymous fisher, Mumbai. ...
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