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Palimpsests of Multiculturalism and Museumization of Culture: Greco-Turkish Population Exchange Museum as an Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Project
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (2): 324–345.
Published: 01 August 2015
... as a history of tolerance, which is manifested as a mode of neo-Ottomanism. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Greek-Turkish population exchange cultural policy multiculturalism museumization palimpsest Neo-Ottomanism References Aktar Ayhan . “Homogenising the Nation, Turkifying...
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Echoes of Ghadr: Lala Har Dayal and the Time of Anticolonialism
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (1): 9–23.
Published: 01 May 2014
... of these stages, a palimpsestic utopia emerges, with the figures of the past not fully erased but having morphed into something of use. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 References Anderson Benedict . Imagined Communities . New York : Verso , 1983 . Appiah Kwame Anthony . In My...
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Little Republics or Petty Republics?: The Panchayat, Imperial Sovereignty, and Discourses of Self- Government in British India, ca. 1870 – 1917
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (3): 402–422.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Leigh Denault Alternately seen as a local-level court of arbitration, a union or committee, or village or municipal council, the concept of the South Asian panchayat was a sociopolitical and legal palimpsest. Retaining traces of meaning accrued from multiple incarnations, contestations...
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Decolonizing History: Algeria, Palestine, and the Movement for Migrant Rights in Postcolonial France
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 454–469.
Published: 01 August 2022
... The image of the marching Palestinians, apparently unrelated to the content of the cover story, is a palimpsestic reminder of the conditions that brought Moroccans, Algerians, and Tunisians to France. Indigènes in the colonies, migrant workers in France are “indigenized” once more through racially...
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Absenting as a Repertoire of Action: A Demolition, a Dump, and a Garden
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (2): 342–351.
Published: 01 August 2024
..., “Virtual Returns to Jaffa.” 38. Allan, Refugees of the Revolution . 39. Stamatopoulou-Robbins, Waste Siege . 40. Stamatopoulou-Robbins, Waste Siege . 41. See Reno, Waste Away ; Stamatopoulou-Robbins, Waste Siege . 42. West, “Translations, Palimpsests...
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African-Language Literature; Or, Postcolonial Theory’s Unconscious
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (3): 502–510.
Published: 01 December 2012
... framework,
language- imaginary than that which is put into given the way the West finds itself, with others,
play by place, understood as the active epicenter involved, yesterday and today, in concrete places
of a given creation. An examination of literary throughout Africa. The African palimpsest...
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Eviscerating the Sea
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 118–134.
Published: 01 May 2024
... the “blue economy” is becoming an important element of national and regional strategies of states with coastlines, including India. The ensuing palimpsest of projects only further prepares the sea for infrastructure in the future. 20 In this article, we show how the sea has been infrastructured...
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Critical Comments
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2006) 26 (1): 87–90.
Published: 01 May 2006
... of the self as a “palimpsest,” as a “text to be read,”
and that the singular awareness that shapes their sense of the self is a keen perception of the
impact of geography on personal history.
Now I want to defi ne a bit what I mean by a geographical understanding of personal his-
tory...
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Preposterous Encounters: Interrupting American Studies with the (Post)Colonial, or Casablanca in the American Century
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 70–86.
Published: 01 August 2003
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Jalil’s face overlaps Rick’s (Bogart’s), and the viewer is rupts American accounts of the U.S. as liberal and mod-
presented with a palimpsest of images from al-Hubb fi ern. Najib employs the word taqalid, a word that trans-
al-Dar al-Baida and Casablanca, where the older film is the lates as “mores...
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Dystopian Futures, Apartheid, and Postapartheid Allegories: Contemporary Imaginings of Johannesburg
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (2): 293–306.
Published: 01 August 2016
... as Palimpsest be? — I also think Zinzi December can be read as
In a widely influential and widely critiqued 1986 figuring, maybe even embodying, an ongoing cri-
essay, Fredric Jameson argued: “All third-world sis in the production and reproduction of everyday
texts...
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When Wounds and Corpses Fail to Speak: Narratives of Violence and Rape in Congo (DRC)
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (1): 78–92.
Published: 01 May 2008
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cide victims, she is aware of their polysemous victims but is also a countermemorial for the
nature. She considers her narrative a palimpsest fallen Hutus silenced within the national Tutsi
on which new national stories will be written. genocide narrative. Tadjo’s travel narrative is
Moreover...
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The Mutilated Body of the Modern Nation: Qurrat Al-‘ayn Tahirah's Unveiling and the Iranian Massacre of the Babis
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1998) 18 (2): 38–50.
Published: 01 August 1998
... and palimpsestic space by the popular
volvement of representatives of every class in the mas-
imaginary, giving way to a fetishistic scene of fantasy
sacre, the Shah managed transfer his actual “fear...
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Feminism, Feminism Everywhere?: Some Reflections on Concepts, Location, and Colonial Modernities
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (1): 188–195.
Published: 01 May 2015
... into a powerful Orientalist icon or, bet-
women and men to have livelihoods, though I, for ter still, palimpsest, a century later. (Its obvious
one, missed any further spelling out of what liveli- Chinese equivalent was foot binding.) There is no
hoods were being...
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Unmoored: On Oceanic Objects in Coastal Eastern Africa, circa 1700–1900
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 355–367.
Published: 01 August 2017
... coast culture. As is often the
pelago, creating a palimpsest of the old and new. case in moments of colonization, it became widely
For example, in the room in figure 3 we can clearly popular precisely because it represented a waning
discern the impact of British Raj and Arab Pen- tradition...
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Revolution and Rehearsal in the Global South: Unlearning the Archive
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 517–530.
Published: 01 August 2022
.... While Handsworth Songs is about battling erasure, it's also about the ghostly entanglements that give rise to the world as we “know” it. The video for “Dispossession” acts as a kind of palimpsest, a visual map of traces, a spatial and temporal catalog. I've always been deeply inspired and influenced...
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Engaging the Archival Habitat: Architectural Knowledge and Otto Koenigsberger's Effects
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 526–540.
Published: 01 December 2020
... standing in the garden next to the palm tree Koenigsberger had described to his mother in a letter, attempting to take a photograph of the villa from the same angle as a picture in a photo album in the archive in London. However, beyond these palimpsests of objects and spaces, my archival imagination...
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Gender, Memory, Trauma: Women's Novels On The Partition Of India
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (1): 177–190.
Published: 01 May 2005
... distancing and
tique, see Andreas Huyssen, Present Pasts: Urban detachment from an otherwise too painful memory.
Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory (Stanford...
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Temple Architecture and Modern Hindu Appropriations of Buddhism
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (1): 43–60.
Published: 01 May 2023
...-caste legacies and disregard the refutation of Hindu practices embedded in Buddhism. They also counter a reading of India's religious landscape as composed of multiple and sometimes competing religious networks. Rather than celebrate the heterogeneity and palimpsest nature of sites, such statements...
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Wishful Landscapes: Protest and Spatial Reclamation in Jaffa
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (2): 313–327.
Published: 01 August 2019
...: Palestinians, for instance, inhabit colonized spaces but are able to “see through” altered landscapes. This kind of recognition has rendered urban spaces into layers of a palimpsest made of imagined and remembered landscapes superimposed on material ones. These forms of indigenous knowledge and emplacement...
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The Surplus of Death: Asylum Management and the Affective Atmosphere of Complicity
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 206–220.
Published: 01 May 2022
... . Avramopoulou Eirini . “ Decolonizing the Refugee Crisis: Palimpsestous Writing, Being-in-Waiting, and Spaces of Refuge on the Greek Island of Leros .” Journal of Modern Greek Studies 38 , no. 2 ( 2020 ): 533 – 62 . doi.org/10.1353/mgs.2020.0031 . Berlant Lauren . “ Slow Death (Sovereignty...
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