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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (2): 454–455.
Published: 01 August 2012
...Paul Kingston Social Movements, Mobilization, and Contestation in the Middle East and North Africa Beinin Joel Vairel Frederic ., eds. Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2011 xiv + 308 pp., $80.00 (cloth) , $24.95 (paper) © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 20–35.
Published: 01 May 2022
... a conceptual framework for doing so, centered on a Gramscian rethinking of the relationship among law, social movements, and state formation in the longue durée of Indian democracy. Working across three hegemonic transitions in Indian democracy, we argue that social movements and the state have constituted...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (1): 47–62.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Behrooz Moazami Duke University Press 2009 The Islamization of the Social Movements and the Revolution, 1963 –  1979 Behrooz Moazami My religion is my politics, and my politics is my religion. —Ruholla Khomeini his essay ponders the Islamization...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (1): 152–153.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Forough Jahanbakhsh Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn Asef Bayat Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007 xxi + 291 pp., $55.00 (cloth), $21.95 (paper) Duke University Press 2010 The Crypto-Jewish Mashhadis: allow the small...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (2): 415–428.
Published: 01 August 2012
... energies be channeled into the building of a revolutionary social movement. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 From Triple Jeopardy to Intersectionality: The Feminist Perplex Delia D. Aguilar here is something awry about the state of feminism in the United States today. Rife...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (2): 345–360.
Published: 01 August 2020
..., and social movements. This timescape enabled one qasbah, Bijnor, to establish a claim to a future alternative to the national in South Asia through its engagement in an Urdu print public, a multivalenced literary and social space clustered around communications in the language of Urdu. Copyright © 2020...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 469–484.
Published: 01 December 2021
...John Chalcraft Abstract This article outlines a theoretical framework for researching popular politics in the Middle East and North Africa. It sketches a Gramscian alternative to existing approaches in materialist Marxism, cultural studies, and social movement studies. It also aims to think...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (3): 423–438.
Published: 01 December 2018
... and Parliament, and diverse social movements and coreligionists, engaging all institutions central to Indian democracy. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 Muslim personal law Indian women’s movement democracy References Agnes Flavia . “ Protecting Women against Violence? Review...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (2): 246–258.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Shanna Dietz Surendra The striking ethnic and linguistic diversity within Pakistan's highly centralized state makes it a prime target for social mobilization, especially in the form of secessionist movements. However, Pakistan's various states and territories have experienced extreme variation...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (2): 238–249.
Published: 01 August 2010
... constructive or negative restrictive role in the nation-building project. In this context some authors perceive NGOs as a socially divisive force leading to the segmentation of the national movement, obliteration of the class struggle, and fragmentation of the social fabric, while others welcome...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 51–56.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Debjani Bhattacharyya Abstract From the beginning of the twentieth century, new urban housing forms, including social housing, land pooling, and building syndicates, began to emerge as products of housing rights and labor movements. Yet this emergence cannot simply be accounted for by a history...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (3): 631–643.
Published: 01 December 2011
...                         standards to conceiving of human beings as gen- came from the global South. It is no wonder, dered, socially constructed persons with distinct then, that the women’s human rights movement                  South Asia,   gender vulnerabilities...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 180–192.
Published: 01 May 2020
... became important indicators of the Kurdish movement's political success, their beauty practices and beautiful visibilities came to be viewed through the urgent need for moral unity. Central to Kurdish women activists' experience of and response to the political and social transformations going on around...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 595–609.
Published: 01 December 2010
... contact with many of the key partici- regulations could no longer apply to Malakand pants in those movements as well as numerous and ordered the full incorporation of the re- other social and political workers with whom I gion into the formal legal and administrative had developed a relationship...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (1): 94–109.
Published: 01 May 2011
... the intellectual, political, and social foundations of the Islamic state. Post-Islamism in postrevolutionary Iran signifies the paradoxes of the Islamic state. This article examines the nature and the diversity of post-Islamist trends in today's Iran symbolized by the current Green Movement. It conceptualizes...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (3): 360–377.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Franziska Roy; Benjamin Zachariah The Meerut Conspiracy Case was directed largely at the emerging radical trade union and workers’ and peasants’ movements in India, while aiming its blow more specifically at an internationalist communism or socialism. The public impact of Meerut, however...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (1): 121–131.
Published: 01 May 2017
... evidently available. If we are to think of the chal- out, academic staff remains 80 percent white on lenges to the humanities and the social sciences average across the universities. When the Rhodes as universal resonances and particular inflections Must Fall movement emerged at UCT, that insti...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (1): 154–169.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Fariba Zarinebaf Placing the history of social and intellectual movements in the Middle East in a comparative context, this article examines intellectual interactions between the Young Ottomans and Young Iranians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. More specifically, it sheds...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 439–450.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Sahana Ghosh Abstract India imposes an increasingly militarized border security agenda along its officially “friendly” border with Bangladesh with a range of preemptive practices to control the illegal movement of people and goods. Focusing ethnographic attention on everyday mobility, I view...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (3): 544–555.
Published: 01 December 2009
... and civilizational theorists. This alternative perspective is useful to grasp the powerful new social reality in the form of militant Islam that has been unleashed since the end of the Cold War: altering culture, language, social, and political policy, while targeting women in many Muslim-majority societies. I argue...