Search Results for politics of comparison

... internationalism. Adalet suggests a reading of Baldwin as a comparative thinker who increasingly abandoned an imperial framework of comparison in favor of a more fluid approach that could unearth the particularities of oppression. In early writings, for instance, Baldwin enacted a Cold War politics of comparison...

...Renisa Mawani Mawani’s essay reads Julian Go’s Patterns of Empire through the politics of comparison and through a shared intellectual commitment to a postcolonial sociology. Patterns of Empire is an ambitious and challenging book that places sociology at the heart of Anglo-imperial history...

... of comparison and commensurability between the Indian and Ottoman/post-Ottoman cases. It then goes on to offer a sketch of how the three concepts play out in the more indeterminate political world of the Ottoman space, looking not to cases of formal colonialism in the Middle East, but to the beginning...

... social and political issues requiring resolution in both cases include the tensions resulting in, and arising from, syncretism and assimilation, contested narratives regarding sacred places and ancestral origins, and the implications for citizenship among peoples who define themselves in epochal...

...Christoph Schumann In the intellectual history of the Arab world, there is a remarkable dearth of literature on liberal thought. In comparison, nationalism and Islamism have attracted much more attention and molded our image of the Middle East. This essay takes a new look at liberal thought...

..., the rise of transnational history has made the work of comparativists more complex, in ways Go does not sufficiently recognize. Especially, it highlights the difficulty of drawing lines between the political units that are to be compared. While the article appreciates the elegance of Go’s comparison...

... writing in print and on the Internet, conferences, and public occasions—to be a rediscovery. The article focuses on two areas, namely, the accentuation of Arabness and the concurrent identification of Arabs as a link in what some see as a global chain of political extremism. I delve into these areas...

... and of deep relevance to Akbar’s imperial and political ambitions. I pursue my analysis of the Mughal Mahabharata in two sections, focusing first on the work’s Sanskrit sources and then on the translation practices one finds evidenced in the Persian text. In the first section, I outline how the Mughal...

... articulation of communitarianism by the AKP government lends itself to deepening neoliberalism and by drawing comparisons to experiments in Third Way politics elsewhere by modernizing social democrats. It suggests that the government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has formulated a Turkish variant of the Third Way...

...James R. Brennan As a response to Isabel Hofmeyr's book Gandhi's Printing Press , this essay examines Indian diasporic print culture, in order to both appreciate the magnitude of Hofmeyr's contribution and to challenge some of the book's generalizations. It considers the wider political economy...

... of retaining governmental control inside the provinces. Legg proposes a constitutional historical geography of dyarchy, focusing on three scales and the forms of comparison they allow, namely international and federal political geometries; autocratic geographies of exclusion and exception; and rival...

... the voice of a new Shahrazad in 1945, Rizvia invoked older Islamic ties between India and the Middle East to narrate her own journey between Sindh and Iraq. However, as a new Shahrazad, Rizvia primarily focused on making contemporary political comparisons between Iraq and India, not on the distant past...

... Adebayo and Alireza Anushi- bring once more to the fore the question of ravani both reveal the intellectual and political comparison, which for many of us still remains stakes involved in a commitment to the disci- a fact of our everyday existence. That these com...

... which has been both ment is the same. He goes further: coloniser and colonised.”8 This claim is supported by literary rather than political comparisons with Mack If the Scots were indeed, as is often claimed, the reading textual characteristics as the transparent repre- backbone of the Empire...

...? Comparison enables us to an- This is correct. I do define empires first and fore- swer these questions. With comparison, we can see most in political terms: there must be a state at the that America’s colonial empire was not that small center or top of a sociopolitical hierarchy. But I compared...

... of mostly Muslim Lebanese origin in the or intelligence operations by the United States triple frontera, who busied themselves with com- and its allies were limited in these regions. How- bating the divisive politics of the global war on ever, on the ideological level, as a comparison terror...

... Scientific Labor, circa 1950  –  1975,” which outlined the parallels and complicities among political, economic, and scholarly-­epistemic management. At the time, as Pletsch clearly mapped, the “division of scientific labor” was grounded on the First World, which...

... .” In The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences: Positivism and its Epistemological Others , edited by Steinmetz George . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2005 . Mitchell Timothy . “ The Middle East in the Past and Future of Social Science .” In The Politics of Knowledge: Areas Studies...

.... The identity plicitly referring to the category of the nation for of linguistic regions is often secured at the ex- comparison and contrast. In foregrounding sites pense of a wide range of language practices, oral of affective habitation that do not correspond to and written. The historical and political...

... referring to the category of the nation for of linguistic regions is often secured at the ex- comparison and contrast. In foregrounding sites pense of a wide range of language practices, oral of affective habitation that do not correspond to and written. The historical and political processes national...