...Jillali El Adnani Duke University Press 2007 Regionalism, Islamism, and Amazigh Identity: Translocality in the Sûs Region of Morocco according to Muhammed Mukhtar Soussi Jillali El Adnani he Sûs region at the center of this article has been marked by the passage...

...Nicole F. Watts This essay examines state-society relations in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq through a case study of the March 2006 protest in Halabja, during which protesters destroyed a memorial built to honor the victims of the 1988 chemical bombing of the city. The article suggests...

...John Tofik Karam George W. Bush hardly finished his declaration of war on terror when the U.S. government turned its attention toward a trinational region where Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay meet, called the triple frontera (Triple Border, in Spanish) and the tríplice fronteira (in Portuguese...

...Rashid Khalidi © 1998: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1998 The ““MiddleEast” as a Framework of Analysis: Re-mapping A Region in the Era of Globalization Rashid Khalidi In recent years, there has been...

...Mrinalini Sinha This essay responds to the mission statement of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East and considers the place of region in the contemporary postnational and post-area studies moment of scholarship. In particular, it examines the possibilities of leveraging...

... different communities have changed dramatically, in both scale and scope. In the region loosely defined as the Middle East, the problem is further compounded by the collapse of the Ottoman order and the erection of state borders. The framework of methodological nationalism tied to those borders has been...

...Sumit Guha Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2004 Transitions and Translations: Regional Power and Vernacular Identity in the Dakhan, 1500–1800 SUMIT GUHA The theoretical underpinnings of reductionist under- paradoxical fate of this effort through...

... the presence of this rite in both regions. The intensity of recent arguments about telkin , though, is connected to changing social and political constellations in the colonial and postcolonial period, which have left villagers in both locations unsure of their ability to maintain everyday sociality while also...

...Barbara R. Joshi Copyright 1987: South Asia Bulletin 1987 SOUTH ASIA BULLETIN Vol. 7 (1987) Recent Developments in Inter-Regional Mobilization of Dalit Protest in India Barbara R. Joshi In recent years...

...Erik Gilbert © 1999: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1999 Sailing from Lamu and Back: Labor Migration and Regional Trade in Colonial East Africa Erik Gilbert In March of 1933, colonial officials...

...Veena Das Das discusses region as a source of theory and raises concerns about the current state of scholarship, especially (1) the censorship of ideas made possible by government control over research along with a public culture that is increasingly intolerant of differences in interpretation...

..., animated by critical regional histories. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 surveillance security ethnography everyday civil-military relations uncertainty region This special section of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East explores civil-military...

...Jeremy Prestholdt Abstract The Indian Ocean region is a continuum of social, economic, and cultural engagements. It is also a remarkably elastic matrix of human relations that has profoundly influenced and been influenced by global engagements. These interregional engagements raise questions of how...

...Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg Abstract With the Chinese invasion of Tibet, exile-Tibetan Buddhist leaders have found new bases for their monastic endeavors in the Himalayan regions of India and Nepal. This article highlights how the northwest Himalayan region of Ladakh has become a homeland...

... the issue of monkey translocation reveals about notions of belonging in this region. It contends that the reason there is such anxious public discourse around what is called the “monkey menace” is that it has dovetailed with a regional politics of identity and cultural meaning. What is at stake...

...Mohamed Zayani The advent of civil society in the Arab world, the proliferation of nongovernmental advocacy organizations, and the expansion of civil society activism have been heralded as promising developments with significant implications on the region’s immutable political environment. While...

...Nosheen Ali This article examines the role of poetry in illuminating and challenging the meaning of citizenship in the border region of Gilgit-Baltistan, which is located in the north of Pakistan and is internationally considered as forming part of Pakistani Kashmir. Ali discusses how poetic...

... twentieth century in the Caucasus and Central Asia was generally treated as an isolated, self-contained movement, confined within the geographic borders of Baku, Tbilisi, and Bukhara, or at most within the southern region of the czarist empire, Turkistan. The occasional reference to the cross-regional...

... in the torn country and facilitated democratic elections but did not terminate the Afghan turmoil and the threat of its regional spillover effects. Six years after the invasion, hopes for renovation, peace, and stability are entwined with great challenges and fears of continuing insecurity. Alongside efforts...

...Margaret Little; Lynne Marks This article suggests that the nature of the neoliberal state needs to be more fully explored. Our research on two regional welfare policies in Canada over the past three decades reveals that neoliberal regional states can differ quite remarkably in how they include...