...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

...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...

... 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...

...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...

...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...

..., animated by critical regional histories. Sahana Ghosh offers the notion of “security socialities” with which to explore the polychromatic social relations, domains of desire, and gendered representations through which groups of borderland men and women engage soldiers on duty along the India-Bangladesh...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

...Nurfadzilah Yahaya Abstract Located at the intersection of four regions, the Middle East, East Asia, Central Asia, and South Asia, Afghanistan is a country whose legal history is sure to be diverse and exciting at the confluence of multiple legal currents. In the book Afghanistan Rising: Islamic...

... with the linguistically diverse regions of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, this essay posits that the persistence of multilinguality among historical actors from these regions does not merit a shift away from monolingualism in contemporary scholarship. This argument derives from the claims analyzed in this essay...