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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 8–23.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Anneeth Kaur Hundle Abstract This article examines citizenship formations and political practices in relation to racialized and gendered postcolonial insecurities for the “Asian community” in contemporary Uganda. After disaggregating the notion of Asian community, it examines (1) how formalistic...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 489–504.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Noaman G. Ali; Shozab Raza Abstract How can Marxism, a theory and practice that emerged from the European experience, speak to contexts outside that experience? Recent scholarship has returned to the moment of the 1960s and 1970s to examine how political movements in the global South that embraced...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 37–48.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Sylvia Croese Abstract This article applies Partha Chatterjee's concept of political society to the case of postwar urban Angola in order to draw attention to the everyday ways in which popular politics are practiced in Africa beyond episodic moments of popular revolt. It looks at the case...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 24–36.
Published: 01 May 2019
... and their relationship to forms of contemporary capitalism and governmentality, as well as the emerging practices through which the poor “invade” the political and impact the frameworks targeting them. But the essay also suggests that, in following these threads, we need to push beyond Chatterjee's conceptual framework...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 348–355.
Published: 01 August 2022
... and highlights the importance of studying emotions towards understanding political practice. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 love courtly culture kingship sovereignty Brahmaputra valley Something unprecedented happened in the Tungkhungia court...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (3): 423–437.
Published: 01 December 2009
... project. It is Islamism as political practice and not solely the dynamism of civil society that lies at the root of the city's religious transformation. Nevertheless, Islamism becomes influential because it is able to link civil society and urban subjectivity to its project. These arguments are based...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 555–558.
Published: 01 August 2022
... away from the themes tackled by the comparative sociology of revolutions that is preoccupied by defining its object, identifying its patterns, and enumerating its stages. Rather, by thinking at the crossroads of revolutionary lives and traditions as well as political practices and theoretical works I...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 3–7.
Published: 01 May 2019
... governmentality and the diverse practices of political society on the continent today. The vivid ways in which various African states have combined and/or moved between liberal and authoritarian modalities of power, attended to biopolitical concerns while also exercising strong coercive force, and dealt...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 May 2008
... literary do and and conscription; mobilization, implemented to at tion effectively be levelthe of warfare, situ historically ated a and phenomenonreinven as authorization in and constant need cultural violence political, of social, understand critique; and practice, analysis, literary...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (1): 96–116.
Published: 01 May 2015
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to image-gifts and the global circulation of the ceremony was extant in the earlier Delhi Sultan-
Indian equestrian portrait, the horse was firmly ates, the Mughals were able to take advantage of
entrenched within cultural-political practices and a range of Indic traditions connecting equines...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 180–192.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Esin Düzel Abstract Beauty can be a source of self-making within a political community, and that self can display moral autonomy via publicly visible and invisible practices while still adhering to a community. At a time of transition during the early 2000s from militarized resistance to urban...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 3–19.
Published: 01 May 2022
..., where, through discrete legal cases, actors practiced articulating anti-colonial revolution with international law, contesting it and shaping it to their aspirations. As militants leveraged the political prisoner and political refugee categories in 1950s French and British Cameroons, human rights...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (1): 94–109.
Published: 01 May 2023
...-day Life March staged by Ta'izz protesters, during which marchers walked 267 kilometers on foot across the country. It views the march as a corporeal affective and discursive deliberative technology of democratic ethos. The march was not only an embodied critique of political practices that had left...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (2): 262–271.
Published: 01 August 2010
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tique, theorization, and political practices that of smooth inversion of “us” and “them,” “tradi-
we have at our disposal can recuperate from his- tion” and “modernity,” and the “East” and the
tories of resistance. We must summon and bring “West” that we can count on to accomplish our
to bear...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 532–548.
Published: 01 December 2014
... collection system, an explosion of informal recycling and
disposal practices, frequent and prolonged garbage strikes, and widespread concerted acts of public
dumping. This messy political landscape offers new insight into debates surrounding infrastructure and
urban...
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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...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (3): 540–556.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Aniket Aga; Chitrangada Choudhury This article explores how transparency laws reconfigure work practices and relations within the bureaucracy, and between bureaucrats and citizens. In a bureaucratic setup where a culture of secrecy looms large, India’s Right to Information (RTI) Act (2005...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 401–406.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Richard Drayton Frederick Cooper's Citizenship between Nation and Empire: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945–1960 is a masterwork on the high politics of the end of the French empire in Africa. His elucidation of the attempts by some African political leaders to find a path out of colonial...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 407–420.
Published: 01 December 2020
... repositories of formal sovereignty. A nuanced understanding of the historical and contemporary political, social, and cultural terrain of South Asia requires a broader conceptual framework that accounts for the multiple idioms and practices of sovereignty in the region and their legacies up until the present...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 475–489.
Published: 01 December 2019
... Muslims in the region have felt a psychological sense of security due to their religious affiliation with Kashmir in a national political field dominated by the Hindu Right. More practically, the highway to Srinagar, the administrative center of J&K province located over the Zojila pass, remains...
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