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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (3): 398–402.
Published: 01 December 2013
...K. Satyanarayana Responding to Gopal Guru and Sundar Sarukkai’s book The Cracked Mirror: An Indian Debate on Experience and Theory, Satyanarayana’s essay examines the significance of bringing Dalit experience into the public debate with reference to the practice of social sciences in particular...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (3): 380–391.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Sudipta Kaviraj Social science theory, the concepts and argumentative architecture through which scholars make sense of the vast processes of modernity—industrialization, étatisation, secularity, individuation—generated the first wave of theoretical concepts in the crucible of European history...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (1): 173–175.
Published: 01 May 2015
... a global consideration of the social and political interventions that staged gender as a problem of both embodiment and inequality. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 He-Yin Zhen China revolutionaries feminism social theory...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (3): 391–397.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Rajeswari Sunder Rajan Sunder Rajan’s essay responds to Gopal Guru and Sundar Sarukkai’s book The Cracked Mirror: An Indian Debate on Experience and Theory . Its primary focus is the authors’ arguments regarding the absence of original theory in the social sciences in India, and the case they make...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (3): 408–416.
Published: 01 December 2013
.... This to imaginatively explore this resignification and “ontologizes” an epistemological problem. Social change the content of this experience. However, sciences find a footing in this self-­understanding theory can unify the experience and also extend...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 462–474.
Published: 01 December 2019
..., and retaliatory attacks by different factions of Taliban fighters. Using uncertainty as an analytic and ethnographic concept, this article traces the social life of the rumors, conspiracy theories, and stories that float around this violence. It draws attention to their multiple and often contradictory effects...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (1): 25–39.
Published: 01 May 2012
... erentiated perhaps one of the meaningful o erings from socially, spatially, culturally, and also in rela- Scott’s Seeing like a State that we need to take se- 39 tion to landscape conditions, agroecological riously in state theory. For the state to take on possibilities, and waterscape realities...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (1): 27–33.
Published: 01 May 2011
... now assumed new roles. Along the same line, in its long historical process secularization has also had its ups and downs and has thus evolved. In some cases it has been open and flexible, and in others, rigid and fundamentalist. Hence new theories must closely explore the evolving relationship between...
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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 (2021) 41 (3): 469–484.
Published: 01 December 2021
... by the gap between how things and persons are supposed to be in practice and in theory according to the dominant hegemony, and how things and persons are experienced in practice and in theory by subaltern social groups. Contradictory consciousness is the contradictory coincidence of two kinds...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (3): 631–643.
Published: 01 December 2011
... of many different strands of women’s activities around the globe that increasingly converged in the 1970s, although in unanticipated ways. Through its broad focus on women in distinct social, political, and intellectual arenas, it links the UN human rights system and its oversight committees...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (1): 137–155.
Published: 01 May 2015
... and 1970s, biologists began to argue that conservation was more than a “numbers game”; it also required taking into account nonhuman traditions and social structures. The theory of biological territoriality thus became a conceptual tool for asserting nonhuman claims to land, often in competition with human...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 656–666.
Published: 01 December 2015
... suggest an implicit theory of embodied knowledge that constitute an authentic Islam, however, Ware particularizes West African and Muslim forms of religiosity and dehistoricizes present struggles and points of social contention. The resulting narrative appears to legitimate claims made by the religious...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (1): 134–151.
Published: 01 May 2016
... filth: bemoaning the dirtiness of their everyday lives but also deploring others' emotional distancing as filthy. In order to unpack their divergent perspectives, this article brings together several fields of scholarship: social science debates about filth in public space in postcolonial India...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 563–565.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Steven Pierce Abstract The commentaries in this Kitabkhana on Milan Vaishnav's When Crime Pays and Steven Pierce's Moral Economies of Corruption provide ample food for thought about the social-scientific study of crime and corruption. All agree on the importance of focusing on actual practice...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 456–470.
Published: 01 December 2023
... Sociales , 1964 . Younes Yves . “ Note sur le calcul économique .” Revue Tunisienne de Sciences Sociales 1 , no. 1 ( 1964 ): 27 – 52 . Younes Yves . “ Théorie du capital et planification dans les pays sous-développés (1) .” Revue Tunisienne de Sciences Sociales 1 , no. 1...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (3): 260–263.
Published: 01 December 2013
... of marrying areas and ideas, history, and theory. Our aim, of course, should not be to create a new orthodoxy, particularism, but to break the orthodoxies that the European tradition subsequently entailed; our aim should be to bring the social sciences...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 391–395.
Published: 01 December 2024
... to political and social theories of modern fascism and empire. This short article reflects my thinking on the ethics of recovering what has been silenced and the type of social research it requires. I argue that we must seek out and privilege the stories of the survivors in whatever form they take...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 644–651.
Published: 01 December 2014
... . “ The Trajectory of the United States in the World-System: A Quantitive Reflection .” Sociological Perspectives 48 ( 2005 ): 233 – 54 . Chernilo Daniel . “ Social Theory’s Methodological Nationalism .” European Journal of Social Theory 9 ( 2006 ): 5 – 22 . Duffy Burnett Christina...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (3): 588–607.
Published: 01 December 2017
... Tilly, Citizenship, Identity, and Social Theory, and Burke, History and Social Theory. See also Emirbayer and Sheller, Pub- lics in History. 20. See Habermas, The Public Sphere ; Na- thans, Habermas s Public Sphere in the Era of the French Revolution ; Calhoun, Habermas and the Public Sphere...