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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 280–298.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Nurçin İleri İleri's article explores the practice of lighting as a means of development of new spectacles and rise of surveillance in fin-de-siècle Istanbul. It focuses on how the concerns of Ottoman municipal and commercial authorities regarding prosperity and civility gave rise to more city...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (1): 20–37.
Published: 01 May 2008
... malfunctions) in order to undo the spectacle of terror-ism—and become something other than spectacle in the very route to becoming spectacle—as well as articulate a more nuanced and challenging narrative of Palestinian nationhood, a narrative that has been so far either impermissible or readily discreditable...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (1): 61–77.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Heike Härting This essay argues that the media-generated spectacle of the dead African body serves as a historically and rhetorically continuous signifier through which the West mounts a revisionary practice of cultural introspection and self-reinvention. Analyzing different representations...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (1): 7–25.
Published: 01 May 2013
... the demolished pre-oil town during the first three decades of oil urbanization was more of a spectacle than a lived reality. Although the state exerted much effort and expense between 1951 and 1971 in planning for the development of a capital city to celebrate Kuwait’s newfound prosperity and progress, certain...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (1): 75–88.
Published: 01 May 2013
... of Western aesthetics of urbanism in the oil city. Damluji argues that the AIOC produced this cinematic spectacle of urbanism in order to control the image of oil modernity in Iran. This article first examines the discursive practices — the verbal exchanges, ideas, decisions, and conditions — that made...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 466–480.
Published: 01 December 2015
... predicting people rather than horses. This is because the future is not considered an open-ended event subject to laws of chance, but rather an event that is fixed. The races are perceived as spectacles hiding the real underlying game, where races are being manipulated by jockeys, trainers, horse owners...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 486–491.
Published: 01 December 2015
... critic might direct toward specific artists, or singular artworks. These questions assume added significance against the backdrop of a rapidly globalizing museum culture, supported by the concomitant rise in museum construction as supportive infrastructure for new sites of spectacle and speculation. ©...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 508–524.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Dina M. Siddiqi My argument revolves around two distinct but entangled lines of inquiry. The first considers the spectacle of Muslim female injury/vulnerability in relation to projects of global solidarity and sisterhood. In light of the entrenched, recursive nature of prevailing associations...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 183–184.
Published: 01 August 2017
... between power and sound during Ramadan in the Ottoman Arab provinces in the sec-
ond half of the nineteenth century, when new technologies synchronized collective action. Nurçin İleri
explores the practice of lighting as a means of developing new spectacles, as well as the rise of surveillance
in fin...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1994) 14 (1): 24–32.
Published: 01 May 1994
... spectacle and an cism, I would say: no, not necessarily, not all com-
attack on the Indian Constitution. I started think- munalism by any means. I would also contend,
ing of Italy at that time because Italy had been, well however, that the whole series of mass spectacles,
before Germany...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1996) 16 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 May 1996
... to England in Khayyat’s estimation, all narratives of alterity were
1766-1769 recounted: “The young and old gazed at perspectival and validated the cultural perspective of
my countenance and shape and I stared at their the reporter:
beauty and face. I journeyed for a spectacle...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (1): 124–141.
Published: 01 May 2008
... and their exaggeration of
tives under scrutiny; and the essays struggle to family resemblances, might come to approxi-
Asha
resist the twin lures of spectacle and humani- mate a topography of cruelty...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (2): 225–234.
Published: 01 August 2008
... much of a spectacle of themselves. One apparently authentic Western youth culture. But
young woman, an art student, identified the these secular Tehrani youth insist on their own
girls who...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 196–205.
Published: 01 May 2022
... War poster What does it mean to be in the war zone, fight in a war, and die for the nation? How is death mediated by media and made into a national spectacle? Does death have a gender? If war and death have defined masculinity, then how is femininity defined in wartime? This essay attempts...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (2): 260–278.
Published: 01 August 2014
... and Social History 5 , no. 4 ( 2008 ): 497 – 508 . Sircar Oishik . “ Spectacles of Emancipation: Reading Rights Differently in India’s Legal Discourse .” Osgood Hall Law Journal 49 , no. 3 ( 2012 ): 527 – 75 . Travers Robert . Ideology and Empire in Eighteenth-Century India...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2006) 26 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 May 2006
... explore to made are Endeavors
The spectacle of September...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 1–2.
Published: 01 May 2019
..., and environmental pollution. Pascal Menoret traces the relationship between the Saudi desert and its association with (masculine) cultures of the car, adventure, and control. Jakob Krais's piece analyzes the spectacle of motor sports and desert rallies and closed-circuit car races in interwar French Algeria...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (2): 377–395.
Published: 01 August 2018
... , 2013 .
Kaur
Ravinder
. “ Good Times, Brought to You by Brand Modi .” Television and New Media 16 , no. 4 ( 2015 ): 323 – 30 .
Kaur
Kaur
. “ Aesthetics of Arrival: Spectacle, Capital, Novelty in Post-Reform India .” Identities: Global Studies in Power and Culture...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (2): 176–190.
Published: 01 August 2023
... to infrastructure has rematerialized the ocean in suggestive ways as it gets visibilized as a cultural object, spectacle, and specter through mobile oceanic artifacts such as the dhow. In the contemporary visual media analyzed in this article, the dhow is both metaphor and practice, conduit and message...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (1): 6–16.
Published: 01 May 2005
...- earth sole on the power of The spectacle the Afghanistan). in lies in part other (includ- regime Taliban particular the in ing support of systems and organizations, networks, al-Qaeda the and eral, and gen- plotters in Islamism the world lies themselves, on perpetrators madness impact the annihilating...
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