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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1988) 8 (1_and_2): 98–105.
Published: 01 August 1988
...Paul Routledge Copyright 1988: South Asia Bulletin 1988 South Asia Bulletin, volume 8 (1988) Dispensable Space, Defensible Space The Conflict over the National Testing Range in Orissa Paul Routledge The contemporary map of India provides a unique and and urban...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 314–320.
Published: 01 August 2017
...., with a focus on the ways in which those who live at, with, and from the Indian Ocean experience this translocal space and render it meaningful. As a result, an understanding of the Indian Ocean emerges in which its size, shape, and range change with the topics at stake. Taking the Swahili coast as a case...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 368–390.
Published: 01 August 2017
... of aesthetics for creating social ties within the Indian Ocean. Based on a praxeological approach and phenomenological considerations, the article understands social space as a transitory nexus of people, things, and aesthetic forms, which is continually generated anew through social practice. Taking today's...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (3): 470–490.
Published: 01 December 2017
... for their comments on earlier iterations of this article. 1. Fieldwork was conducted from February 2011 to May 2012, with support from Fulbright- Hays and the Social Science Research Council. 2. Lefebvre, Production of Space, 44. 3. Govind Prasad, in our many conversations, insisted that he not be given a pseudonym...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (3): 619–624.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Julie Peteet 1. Watenpaugh, Bread from Stones, 9. Hereafter cited in the text. 2. Peteet, Landscape of Hope and Despair, 53 54. 61 9Julie Peteet From the East: Shifting the Space of Humanitarianism Kitabkhana Ratner, Steven R., Jason S. Abrams, and James L. Bischoff, eds. Accountability...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 43–50.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., and beyond melancholic attachments, but also beyond the fictive and inherently colonial idea of “mankind heritage” of “universal value.” What does it mean to think about the space of a refugee camp in terms of heritage? To think of the temporality of the refugee camp in terms of heritage? In the case...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 80–85.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., semiskilled, and unskilled labor shape the everyday work of building, yet these terms only partially map onto hierarchies of embodied capacities and know-how. At least two vectors are producing what I term a “problem-space” concerning skill. On one hand, long-standing patterns of informal learning by doing...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (2): 387–400.
Published: 01 August 2020
... on a range of topics, which included a criticism of productivity, changing gender roles for men and women, and the new order of time and space. Keeping in mind that drastic changes in technology introduced distinctive modes of experiencing time and space in the nineteenth century, this article suggests...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (2): 146–162.
Published: 01 August 2023
... time. The definition of the Indian Ocean region stretching from Indonesia and Western Australia to the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, and south to the Western Cape of South Africa is largely a modern geographical concept. It therefore has the potential to project contemporary perceptions of space...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (1): 89–101.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Maria Stehle Since the 1990s, the headscarf has played a powerful role in negotiating questions of national and cultural belonging, gender identity, and definitions of urban space in Germany. This essay examines examples of veiling depicted in popular culture and theorizes the relationship between...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (3): 279–294.
Published: 01 December 2013
... Press , 1999 . Coronil Fernando . The Magical State: Nature, Money, and Modernity in Venezuela . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1997 . Deshpande Satish . “ Hegemonic Spatial Strategies: The Nation-Space and Hindu Communalism in Twentieth-Century India .” In Community...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (1): 35–49.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Asif Siddiqi Through newly accessible archival materials, this essay recovers a particular moment in the birth of the Indian space program when its principal architects sought to leverage US commitment to Indian development to create the technical know-how for an Indian television broadcasting...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (3): 427–436.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Noor Nieftagodien 1. Segal, The Human Face of Violence. 427Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East Vol. 37, No. 3, 2017 doi 10.1215/1089201x-4279128 © 2017 by Duke University Press Life in South Africa s Hostels Carceral Spaces and Places of Refuge Noor Nieftagodien M...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (2): 219–233.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Mostafa Hussein Abstract This article explores Jewish spaces in Cairo as repositories of memory and their role in shaping a collective understanding of the Jewish past among non-Jewish Egyptians. By examining these sites through the perspectives of engaged observers, it uncovers their multifaceted...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2006) 26 (2): 303–325.
Published: 01 August 2006
...Lois Beck; Julia Huang Duke University Press 2006 Manipulating Private Lives and Public Spaces in Qashqa’i Society in Iran Lois Beck and Julia Huang We are looking...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 547–562.
Published: 01 December 2010
... access to private commercial spaces such as malls and other locations where elite establishments are concentrated and to employment in the expanding sector of the service economy, namely, in high-end restaurants, bars, and exclusive nightclubs. Through a study of “aspiring cosmopolitans” in Amman, Jordan...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (2): 374–390.
Published: 01 August 2012
... such as The Mirror (1998), The Girl in the Sneakers (1998), and The Day I Became a Woman (2000), girls and young women inhabit the edges of the sidewalks, nighttime transient-filled parks, roadside gutters, and other liminal spaces that underscore their marginalized and ephemeral, yet tangible presence — a presence...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (1): 75–88.
Published: 01 May 2013
... Persian Story a major cinematic event in Britain and a durable visual record of oil modernity in Iran. It further analyzes the visual composition and narrative of the film in order to understand how AIOC’s network of executives and filmmakers selected and managed representations of urban space and society...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1997) 17 (1): 67–80.
Published: 01 May 1997
... . 1971 . Inward Hunger: The Education of a Prime Minister . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Spaces of Slavery, Times of Freedom: Rethinking Caribbean History in World Perspective Dale Tomich The Caribbean region presents the observer with monotonous repetition...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2000) 20 (1-2): 200–216.
Published: 01 August 2000
...). Laguerre, S. Michel. 1994 . The Informal City. New York: St. Martin's Press. Laguerre, S. Michel. 1999 . Minoritized Space: An Inquiry Into the Spatial Order of Things. Berkeley:Institute of Governmental Studies Press. Light, Ivan. 1972 . Ethnic Enterprise in America. Berkeley and Los...