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The Nation Writ Small: African Fictions and Feminisms, 1958–1988

Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (1): 125–126.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-2072766
Published: 01 May 2013
...Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra The Nation Writ Small: African Fictions and Feminisms, 1958–1988 Andrade Susan Z. Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2011 272 pp. , $89.95 ( cloth ); $24.95 ( paper ) © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 BOOK REVIEWS The Nation Writ Small...
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The Limits of Maneuver: Caribbean States, Small Farmers and the Capitalist World Economy, 1940s–1995

Michaeline A. Crichlow
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1997) 17 (1): 81–98.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-17-1-81
Published: 01 May 1997
... of states’ what tensions relationships between state and agrarian strata. Thus, can be observed between states and small farmers as such policy emerges as a condition, reflection and out- they wrestle with each other’s agendas and against en- come of the participation of states in old and new proc...
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Small Philology and Large Philology

Sheldon Pollock
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (1): 122–127.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-4390027
Published: 01 May 2018
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Figure 2b. A yard filled with small machine parts inside the multicommodity megaport, August 2012. Courtesy of Shivani Shedde.

A yard filled with small machine parts inside the multicommodity megaport, ...

in What Makes a Natural Harbor?: Naturalizing Port Development along the Gulf of Kutch, Western India > Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 2b. A yard filled with small machine parts inside the multicommodity megaport, August 2012. Courtesy of Shivani Shedde. More
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Between Qasbas and Cities: Language Shifts and Literary Continuities in North India in the Long Eighteenth Century

Francesca Orsini
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 68–81.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-7493788
Published: 01 May 2019
..., nostalgic view we approach literary culture in Awadh prospectively and multilingually and broaden our lens to consider not just the capitals, Faizabad and Lucknow, but also the qasbas (small towns), the small rural courts, the nearby growing city of Banaras, and the colonial capital of Calcutta, a different...
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Figure 1b. Predicted changes in precipitation (in %) over the twenty-first century under a high climate-forcing scenario (RCP8.5). Stippling indicates where the model predictions are robust, in the sense of agreeing on the sign of the change; otherwise, the models do not agree. Hatching indicates where the average model changes are small compared with internal variability, but this does not mean that individual model changes are small. From Stocker et al., Climate Change 2013.

Predicted changes in precipitation (in %) over the twenty-first century und...

in Localness in Climate Change > Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 May 2020
where the average model changes are small compared with internal variability, but this does not mean that individual model changes are small. From Stocker et al., Climate Change 2013 . More
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Arab Ethnicity and Diasporic Islam: A Comparative Approach to Processes of Identity Formation and Religious Codification in the Muslim Communities in Brazil

Paulo G. Pinto
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (2): 312–330.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-1264253
Published: 01 August 2011
..., and, to a lesser extent, Rio de Janeiro. The vast majority of Muslims in Brazil are Arab Middle Eastern immigrants from Syria, Lebanon, and the Palestinian Territories or their descendants. There are also some African immigrants (from Senegal and Nigeria) and a small but growing number of Brazilian converts...
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Regulations and Remittances from British Indian Indentured Guianese

Lomarsh Roopnarine
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (3): 662–673.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-1891642
Published: 01 December 2012
... concludes that while a majority of indentured Indians benefited marginally from indentured service, a small number of them took back more savings than what was revealed to the Immigration Department. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Regulations and Remittances...
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Christian and Turkish: Secularist Fears of a Converted Nation

Esra Özyürek
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (3): 398–412.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-2009-027
Published: 01 December 2009
...Esra Özyürek In the past twenty years, around three thousand Turkish Muslims converted to a Turkish-speaking Protestant movement. Despite their small number, they have been physically and ideologically attacked by Turkish nationalists. This article asks why it is so difficult for Turkish secular...
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Criminalizing the Criminal Tribe: Partition, Borders, and the State in India’s Punjab, 1947–55

Sarah Gandee
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (3): 557–572.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-7208867
Published: 01 December 2018
...Sarah Gandee This article explores the postcolonial criminalization of a so-called criminal tribe in the borderlands of East Punjab in the years following independence and Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. A small proportion of the Rai Sikhs had been notified by the colonial government...
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The Indian Loom, Climate Change, and Democracy: Introducing the Malkha Enterprise

Uzramma
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (2): 233–240.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-7586753
Published: 01 August 2019
..., a technology introduced in colonial times to carry cotton long distances from the field. Malkha spinning centers are substantially smaller in size than conventional mills, closer to the small scales of Indian cotton farming and hand weaving. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 handloom...
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Back to the Future Qasbah : Print and the Timescape of an Islamic Town in British India

Megan Eaton Robb
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (2): 345–360.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-8524270
Published: 01 August 2020
...Megan Eaton Robb Abstract Social and cultural historians of South Asia have long called for additional research into the qasbah , or Islamic small town. This essay offers evidence that Bijnor qasbah, through the newspaper Madinah , hosted alternate geographies and temporalities to construct...
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Eviscerating the Sea

Nikhil Anand, Lalitha Kamath
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 118–134.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-11141543
Published: 01 May 2024
... are increasingly turning to their small parcels of land in the city, exploring how and if these might be made real estate to secure their futures. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 port environments infrastructure fishing sea...
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Producing Rooted Knowledge: Predicaments of Palestinians Positioned in Israeli Universities

Yara Sa'di-Ibraheem
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 402–406.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-11470375
Published: 01 December 2024
...Yara Sa'di-Ibraheem Abstract Israeli universities’ discrimination against Palestinian students, the vast majority of whom are Israeli citizens, has been amply researched and documented. Some attention has also been given to these institutions’ small percentages of Palestinian staff. Yet...
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Drawing in the Digital Field: Shahzia Sikander's The Last Post (2010)

Claire Brandon
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 492–504.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-3426349
Published: 01 December 2015
... small drawings, which are scanned and digitally altered. The article then focuses on The Last Post (2010), which marked a radical departure in the artist's animation practice. The Last Post deals with the history of colonial struggle and the legacy of the British East India Company in South and East...
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Technological Change and Its Impact on the Rural Structure of Pakistan

Karamat Ali
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1988) 8 (1_and_2): 20–26.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-8-1-2-20
Published: 01 August 1988
...- This type of agricultural modernization has not only re- ers, i.e., small or big, poor or rich, can benefit from mod- sulted in increased productivity and output but has also ernization of agriculture. Whoever is willing to use the new brought about some structural, institutional, social, eco...
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What a Revolution! Thirty Years of Social Class Reshuffling in Iran

Sohrab Behdad, Farhad Nomani
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (1): 84–104.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-2008-046
Published: 01 May 2009
... Table 1. Sources of growth of non-oil GDP increase in small-scale service activities. We   1 9 6 6   –  7 6 1 9 7 6   –   8 6 1 9 8 6   –  9 6 adopt the term involution in the sense intro...
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Agricultural Growth and Rural Wage-Labor in India

Kalpana Bardhan
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1989) 9 (1): 12–25.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-9-1-12
Published: 01 May 1989
... with the em- ‘reformists,’ not all small changes necessarily block the ployer/creditors’ control in labor transactions, which is big change, small modifications of power inequality can exercised through their economic and extra-economic cumulate into a process, and things are sometimes so power...
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Is Development a Red Herring? Indian Fishworkers, Multinationals and the State

Ajantha Subramanian
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1994) 14 (2): 108–114.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-14-2-108
Published: 01 August 1994
... in the policies implemented by the Indian traditions of India’s fishing communities. It is to ar- government. Small scale fishermen have largely rest such developments that fishermen and women been marginalized in the development of Indian across the nation are mobilizing, demanding the ac- fisheries...
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How Revolutionary Was India's Green Revolution?

Biswapriya Sanyal
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1983) 3 (2): 31–44.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-3-2-31
Published: 01 August 1983
... rearranged as a result of the Indo-Chinese constraints such as lack of finance and War. Large sums which might otherwise other inputs of production for the vast have been used for development purposes majority of the small farmers. had...
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