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...Sheldon Pollock The past fifty years have seen a profound endangerment of the world's humanities capacity. While the crisis is far from unknown in the United States it is acute across the global south. Columbia University's Global Humanities Project assembled a group of scholars and administrators...

... , Cry the Beloved Narmada , Chandrapur: Mabarogi Sewa Samiti. D'Monte , Darryl , 1985 , Temples or Tombs? Industry vs. Environment: Three Cases , Delhi: Centre for Science and Environment. Doria , R.S. , 1990 , Environmental Impact of the Narmada Sagar Project , New Delhi: Ashish...

...Aslı Iğsız In 2010, the 1923 Greek-Turkish Population Exchange Museum opened its doors as part of the Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture (ECoC) project. Presented as the first migration-themed museum of Turkey, it is a site of cultural recollection focused on family histories. Yet the museum...

...Andrew E. Barnes © 1997: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1997 ccRACE”/ DIASPORAS/ POLITIC S Aryanizing Projects: African Collaborators and Colonial Transcripts Andrew E. Barnes Introduction...

... Scenario; the forced relocation caused by the Bank-financed SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF power plant and coal mine, as well as the appalling human LARGESCALE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS environmental and public health conditions to which...

...Sara Ababneh Abstract This reflection on the politics and ethics of social research in Jordan starts with the dynamics between individual researchers and then turns to the politics and policies of data ownership in funded projects. The power relations between individual researchers as well as those...

... , 2012 . Yassine Abd al-Salam . Tanwir al-Mu'minat (A Guide of Female Believers) . Casablanca : Al-Ufuq , 1996 . Islamist Women and the Arab Spring Discourse, Projects, and Conceptions Merieme Yafout here is near unanimity...

... and Revolutionary Projects for the Twentieth Century Alan F. Fogelquist. Alec Nove, The Economics of Feasible Socialism. London: society. Specifically, the author questions Marx's assump- George Allen and Unwin. 1983. xii, 244 pages. tions...

... utopian project. In Har Dayal’s hands, however, such a project requires a doubling back of history; a political project that torques the present back onto its impossible pasts. Hints for Self-Culture does this in two significant moves, in ways that the bulk of this essay explores. First, Har Dayal returns...

...Mariz Tadros This article examines the notion of empowerment as it has been conceptualized, operationalized, and applied through various programs and projects by some donors funding women- and gender-related projects in the Middle East between 1998 and 2008. The main argument put forward...

... or the result of external, more specifically, capitalist imperialist interest and pressures in the region, hence serving foreign agendas. At the macro level, questions are raised concerning the role of NGOs vis-à-vis the project of nation and state building, that is, whether this phenomenon plays a positive...

...Himani Bannerji; Shahrzad Mojab; Judith Whitehead This essay, written in reflection of earlier work, introduces the themes needed to analyze forms of gender and class oppression as these have been mediated through, and by, hegemonic projects of imperialism and nationalism. It argues that the gender...

...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...

... of the Zango social-housing project, which was created to resettle evicted shack dwellers in Luanda. While in the initial stages of the project responses to resettlement were marked by bouts of protest and resistance against the state, over time these shifted to the emergence and formulation of informal...

...Chandana Anusha; Ayesha Omer; Devika Shankar Abstract Massive modern port projects across the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Ocean in the twenty-first century are where anxieties about the global economy, state sovereignty, and climate change converge. Many of these port projects are agents...

...Chandana Anusha Abstract The Mundra Port on the Gulf of Kutch in western India is one of India's largest port projects today. This article takes the port-circulated narrative of the coast being a natural harbor as its starting point, to show how fresh water was central to official maritime projects...