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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (1): 2–23.
Published: 01 May 2017
..., and collapse that features within scholarly, popular, and policy-oriented accounts of Lake Victoria's fisheries. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 ontological politics multispecies ethnography Lake Victoria East Africa The research for this article was made possible through the support...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (1): 213–219.
Published: 01 May 2016
... between Western intellectual anxieties and postcolonial methods and modes of thought. One domain for interrogating the contemporary significance of the work is the call for new ontologies and interpretive humility. This commentary examines these new ontologies through the rethinking of ways that agents...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (3): 568–583.
Published: 01 December 2022
..., since historical and political effects happen only via the discourse and actions of human dreamers (through their “dream stories”). Mittermaier, then, can take invisible actors seriously as methodological realities but not ontological ones, to use a distinction theorized and operationalized by Nils...
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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 (2024) 44 (3): 413–417.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Rabab El-Mahdi Abstract This article argues that the interplay between a limited disciplinary research agenda in political science and an overemphasis on quantitative methods has left a whole range of important untapped questions regarding the Middle East and North Africa. This is most obvious...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 621–632.
Published: 01 December 2010
... policies, however, has not resulted in such integration. The nation and region have been reformulated around fragmented ideologies of religion and ethnicity, often conforming to their respective political boundaries or claiming newer boundaries. The local has stubbornly refused erasure by resisting secular...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (1): 204–212.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Anna M. Agathangelou In Beyond Eurocentrism and Anarchy: Memories of International Order and Institutions Siba Grovogui begins with a lyrical form of subversion as he speaks to those in International Relations whom he finds participating in moral justifications of a politics of death. Grovogui's...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (3): 584–602.
Published: 01 December 2022
... consciousness. The divide between the West and its dualism, on the one hand, and supposedly ontologically distinct animistic lifeworlds, on the other, is problematic because it not only ignores the animism within Western traditions of thought but also glosses over the exclusionary politics and forms...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2006) 26 (3): 416–433.
Published: 01 December 2006
... and politicization of the truth in cultural tradition, or a defense of a single overarching sociocul- Vol. 10.1215/1089201 26, No. 3, 2006 doi tural meaning as both an ontology and a mode of political organization. In this way, and by extension, these discourses...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (2): 287–302.
Published: 01 August 2024
... on the abjection” of Black and Indigenous bodies. 123 The absented subject forms, for Marriott “a vanishing point within meaning,” cautioning against the production of political ontologies. 124 Relational reading for absence does not, then, guarantee the familiar plotlines of anti-colonial triumph...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (3): 561–567.
Published: 01 December 2022
... the imaginatively and ethically consequential place of animal lives in pahari (rural, hill-dwelling) politics. The human inhabitants of Kumaon understand ontological differences not so much in terms of their contrast to animals or gods as in terms of the distinctions between insiders and outsiders, mountain...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (1): 182–195.
Published: 01 May 2016
..., and Transnational logic of domination and exploitation (coloniality), Politics, 1939 – 1946.” Journal of Global History 7, no. 3 disguised by a narrative of salvation, progress, and (2012): 438 – 60...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (3): 408–416.
Published: 01 December 2013
... and otherness. Here eth- Kant, Immanuel. “What Is Orientation in Thinking?” In ics is a regulatory discipline. For this approach it is Political Writings, edited by Hans Reiss and translated a question of ethics for social sciences. The Cracked by H. B. Nisbet...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 237–253.
Published: 01 May 2022
... Blackness into a rigid “always already sedimented” ontological and political position that disallows contingency, disruption, and lines of flight ( Kline, “The Pragmatics of Resistance,” 57 ). As Kline argues, Wilderson's ontology of Blackness reduces it to a singular position within “a macropolitical...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (2): 355–361.
Published: 01 August 2016
... been describing the main narrative arc of The resonates with the interest among historians of sci- Calling of History. Describing Sir Jadunath’s moral ence in interrogating how politics and commerce selfhood, Chakrabarty writes, “A certain cultiva- enabled the production...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 208–216.
Published: 01 May 2024
... thing to do? As things already are. You say that quite a bit. And I feel like there's a project there of revising our political ontology, when you say things like, “this is what they do.” I think there is here (and correct me if I'm wrong) a project of revising a political ontology taken for granted...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 171–183.
Published: 01 May 2019
... . Heritage: Critical Approaches . London : Routledge , 2013 . Harrison Rodney . “ Beyond ‘Natural’ and ‘Cultural’ Heritage: Toward an Ontological Politics of Heritage in the Anthropocene .” Heritage and Society 8 , no. 1 ( 2015 ): 24 – 42 . Hawkes Jacquetta . Mortimer Wheeler...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 678–681.
Published: 01 December 2015
..., and the academe. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Quran schooling Salafis religion Négritude References Alidou Ousseina . Engaging Modernity: Muslim Women and the Politics of Agency in Postcolonial Niger . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 2005 . ———. Muslim Women...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (2): 269–280.
Published: 01 August 2009
... restricted to political figures. One can link this shift to the decline of the Iranian tra theto ofIranian decline shift this link One can figures. to political restricted previously was that genre a intellectuals, and writers by memoirs of publication mass the represented in tradition...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 385–390.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Lila Abu-Lughod Abstract Sampling from the “Indigenous turn” in anthropology, this article asks what might be relevant for our thinking about the politics and ethics of social research practices in the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region from the decolonizing efforts of those working in New...