... . Beyond Eurocentrism and Anarchy: Memories of International Order and Institutions . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2006 . ———. Sovereigns, Quasi Sovereigns, and Africans: Race and Self-Determination in Law . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 1996 . Mignolo Walter D...

... Mary . Reversible Sex Roles: The Special Case of Benares Sweepers . Oxford : Pergamon Press , 1981 . Sharma Ram Sharan . Śūdras in Ancient India: A Survey of the Position of the Lower Orders down to Circa AD 500 . Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass , 1990 . Shraddhanand Swami...

... 2017 night city lights darkness order spectacle urban modernity Istanbul I would like to thank Avner Wishnitzer, Shaahin Pishbin, and Ufuk Adak for their valuable criticisms and comments at the stage of writing this article. I am also grateful to Istanbul Research Institute...

... Bread, Freedom, Independence: Opposition to Nazi Germany in Lebanon and Syria and the Struggle for a Just Order Götz Nordbruch...

... of a postnational global order. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Gandhi internationalism interwar India nation-state postnational A version of this essay was presented at the Center for International Politics, Organization and Disarmament, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru...

...Sunila S. Kale Abstract The subjects of crime and corruption remain perennially important for social scientists concerned with the nature of power, authority, and order. Steven Pierce's Moral Economies of Corruption: State Formation and Political Culture in Nigeria and Milan Vaishnav's When Crime...

... in the following year. In this article, I investigate, through reading early petitions of Tehran residents, a grassroots campaign against prostitution that led to the initial formation of the district, in order to explore both the passions and the reasons of the lay people who pushed the government to sanction...

... to unsettle the established political order. To elucidate this argument, this article reflects on the Life March, a 267-kilometer march from Ta'izz to San'a on foot over five days, staged by Yemeni protesters in 2011. It pays attention to the ways in which the bodily actions of the marchers incited a social...

...J. Daniel Elam This essay reads Lala Har Dayal’s Hints for Self-Culture (1934) in order to highlight how anticolonial agitator Lala Har Dayal imagines a history appropriate for a future anticolonial utopia. By simultaneously tracking Har Dayal’s “promiscuous afterlives” in Punjab in the 1930s...

... orders. In this same period, the first Senegalese-owned printing presses began disseminating xasida in printed form more widely than ever, and at times against the wishes of the leadership of the Muridiyya, one of Senegal's leading sufi orders. By highlighting the intertwined nature of print, public...

..., and digital ethnography of Islamic forums in order to develop a historically informed cultural analysis of gendered and raced sartorial practices within the Cemaat. It argues that the Cemaat's culturally specific dress code—an ironed shirt tucked into trousers—is produced by tensions and convergences between...

... in a process of constant oscillation between particular historical-sociopolitical attachments and a decidedly cosmopolitan intellectual horizon. This oscillation, it is argued, while born out of the core-periphery dynamics of commodity and knowledge production within a colonially constructed world order...

... of Western aesthetics of urbanism in the oil city. Damluji argues that the AIOC produced this cinematic spectacle of urbanism in order to control the image of oil modernity in Iran. This article first examines the discursive practices — the verbal exchanges, ideas, decisions, and conditions — that made...

...M’hamed Oualdi In order to reframe our perception of the Mediterranean, Oualdi’s essay connects two aspects of northern African history usually treated separately, namely the historiography of colonialism and the historiography of Ottoman rule. Oualdi explores how the legacies of Ottoman slavery...

... discrimination. Contemporary proposals for a cosmopolitan order frequently reject the legacy of anticolonial nationalism and appeal to the tradition of the liberal internationalism of empire. Specific global movements that point to future transnational political arrangements are an important new development...

...Sanjib Baruah Abstract For quite some time now, there has been an effort to settle India's Naga conflict. Instead of ordering the developments in the conventional teleological narrative of a peace process, this article looks at certain facts on the ground created by the two-decades-old cease-fire...

... leftists and Kurdish guerrillas deemed “unidentified.” This article focuses on the cemetery for the kimsesiz in Kilyos, Istanbul in order to discuss the spatial ordering of death in the margins of social and political life in Turkey. These margins may be ethnic, religious, sectarian, or economic as well...

... Program” as a revolutionary, anti-colonial, and radical republican challenge that sought to implement a new constitutional order based on popular sovereignty. Internally, it severed the link between sectarian affiliation and political representation that was the hallmark of the Lebanese regime. Externally...