Search Results for politic

... Group Politics: the Right to be Different,’ Work in Progress , 75 , June, 24–27. Chothia , Farouk , 1993 . ‘Roll over, Gandhi: NP's chief among the Indians,’ The Weekly Mail , March 26-April 1, 19 . Coetzee , J. M. , 1985 . ‘Satyagraha in Durban,’ New York Review of Books , 32...

...Ruchi Chaturvedi; Antina von Schnitzler Abstract This essay introduces the special section “Political Society and Popular Politics in Africa” and sets out some of the key debates and concepts that animate the contributions. It focuses in particular on the specific terrains of postcolonial...

..., which bound administering authorities to uphold these principles. Having imposed politics onto the prison, Cameroonian nationalists who escaped repression in French Cameroon by fleeing to British territory politicized their exile as they claimed refugee status in British Cameroons, a territory...

...Lila Abu-Lughod This essay introduces the special section “The Politics of Feminist Politics,” which brings together the work of feminist scholars of the Middle East and South Asia to highlight the silences, exclusions, and occlusions that mark the transregional imaginative geographies of both...

...). Patriarchy and the Politics of Gender in Modernizing Societies: Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan Valentine M. Moghadam Abstract: The politicization of gender and restric- sumed a paramount position in political discourse, tive laws about women in Muslim countries have in cultural...

... . “The Right to Cultures: Cultural Communication, Media and Iranian Women Refugees in Germany and Canada,” Media Development 3 : 27 -33. ____. 1994 . “Conversations on Women's Rights Among Iranian Political Exiles: Implications for the Community-Self Debate in Feminism,” Critique (Spring): 1 -12...

...Vaheed Ramazani Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2002 September 11: Masculinity, Justice, and the Politics of Empathy Vaheed Ramazani - America’s immediate response to the shocking events of tional...

... the and Although workers were becoming increas­ politicized. Oil workers numbered more than South Africa ingly political, the nature of their demands was thirty thousand and were heavily concentrated East neither revolutionary nor Islamic. Workers were in specific oil...

... role in the Iranian political structure despite their internal theological differences and political divisions. I challenge these assumptions and propose a different line of inquiry in studying the role of the religious institution and the ulema in Iranian history and politics. My overall argument...

... life and politics by a specific generation of Iran's Left. The essay argues that because of its ideological adherence to Marxism, the militant Left of this era simply assumed its role as a secular political force, while riveted by cultural elements that in fact undermined secularism. Moreover, it shows...

... of Iranian identities. Surveys and interviews conducted with Iranians in Los Angeles and Toronto reveal among Iranian immigrants a deep concern with the global image of Iran, an emphasis on publicity as a form of political action, and anxieties related to the representation of the “Iranian community...

...Katarzyna Pieprzak Creative Reckonings: The Politics of Art and Culture in Contemporary Egypt Jessica Winegar Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006 416 pp., 48 illustrations, $70.00 (cloth), $26.95 (paper) Duke University Press 2011 Indo...

...Paul Sedra The Challenge of Political Islam: Non-Muslims and the Egyptian State Scott Rachel M. Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2010 xiii + 277 pp. , $65.00 (cloth) , $24.95 (paper) © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011...

...Pamela Karimi; Christiane Gruber © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Introduction: The Politics and Poetics of the Child...

...Arshavez Mozafari; Melissa Finn © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Introduction: Veiled Constellations: The Veil, Critical Theory, Politics, and Contemporary Society...

... Gender, Performance, and the Politics of Space: Germany and the Veil in Popular Culture Maria Stehle ince the s, the headscarf has played a powerful role in negotiating questions of na- tional and cultural belonging, gender identity, and definitions of public space in Ger...

... Consciousness troduces us to the notion of “memory work as In spite of all obstacles, women have made vis- resistance” and “politicization of memory” as a The Politics and PoeticsResistance of Women’s ible advances throughout the region. But a mode of countering the o cial state...

...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...

...Claudia Yaghoobi The Politics of Women’s Rights in Iran Osanloo Arzoo . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2009 xix + 258 pp., $24.95 (paper) © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 The Politics of Women’s Rights in Iran ernment and a republican state...

... and the Middle East in the nineteenth century. He contends that the causes of the 1860–61 famine were a series of interlocking issues that had affected the political economy of the Qajar state. The longer-term economic and political developments in the run-up to the crisis had an important role in setting up...