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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (2): 230–236.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Vanessa Codaccioni Abstract The article deals with the history of state exception in France since the Algerian War. From this point of view, what is happening in France falls into two overlapping genealogies of exception: a colonial genealogy of exceptionalist logics, in which Algeria plays...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 349–351.
Published: 01 August 2003
...- ern New Jersey is, in fact, topographically bland and Keya Ganguly. States of Exception: Everyday Life and Post- parochial or that it represents the “banal and even dead- colonial Identity. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota ening daily life” of the suburbs (85). Yet the reader can- Press, 2001...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (2): 225–229.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Sarah Ghabrial Abstract The main intervention of this special section is to identify and reposition race and colonial law as (conspicuously) absent referents in widely accepted genealogies of the state of exception—most notably, that of Giorgio Agamben—and to offer methodological pathways, based...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 404–419.
Published: 01 August 2022
... on Moplah , 509 . 114. Agamben, State of Exception , 4 . 115. E.g., an earlier figure, the “Jungle Mappila Bandit.” Abraham, “Constructing the ‘Extraordinary.’” 116. Ansari, “Refiguring the Fanatic.” 117. “Special Commissioner to Fort St. George, 21 February 1852...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 468–473.
Published: 01 December 2020
... for and productive of this new interpretation of the caliph's role in the international state system. 12 These questions signal the need to reassess the nature of Ottoman sovereignty, particularly in provinces that historians often characterized as exceptionally exceptional. Despite the Hijaz's centrality...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (2): 243–259.
Published: 01 August 2014
... of welfarism, during the unprecedented emergency of the 1970s. Noting the vintage of certain seemingly exceptional expedients of the social during this era, Hewage claims that they illuminate the distinctive temporality of a postcolonial reason of state. The essay foregrounds postcolonial demands...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (2): 260–278.
Published: 01 August 2014
... of special tribunals and exceptional procedures. Judicial remedies made constitutional governance a two-way process, where citizens could insert themselves into a conversation on state practice. Constitutional law became grounded in uncertainty as the results in very similar cases varied widely. However...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (2): 243–247.
Published: 01 August 2020
.... The kind of police state tactics and assumptions discussed here only assure the adverse results of assigning an exceptional status to those accused of terrorist activity or a very broadly defined “support” for it. That, in the government's eyes, those individuals stem in large part from one of the major...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 421–424.
Published: 01 December 2019
... of Security .” Current Anthropology 51 , no. 4 ( 2010 ): 487 – 517 . Grewal Inderpal . Saving the Security State: Exceptional Citizens in Twenty-First-Century America . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2017 . Junaid Mohamad . “ Epitaphs as Counterhistories: Martyrdom...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 439–450.
Published: 01 December 2019
... – 95 . Grewal Inderpal . Saving the Security State: Exceptional Citizens in Twenty-First-Century America . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2017 . Grewal Inderpal . “ ‘Security Moms’ in the Early Twentieth-Century United States: The Gender of Security in Neoliberalism...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1991) 11 (1_and_2): 110–130.
Published: 01 August 1991
... in their In all big states except Rajasthan and West Bengal representation. reservation for OBCs is already in existence. In some of these States it even reaches 50 per cent. This was the Backwardness of the OBCS...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 551–558.
Published: 01 December 2019
... that corruption points to the fact that the stateexcept in a grossly empirical sense is an illusion”; a disinterested and rationalized bureaucratic system “does not exist” (216). Corruption, rather than a structural failing of modernizing states, says Pierce, is a political performative that can be disentangled...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (2): 237–242.
Published: 01 August 2020
... is particularly emblematic of the racial logics through which exception is normalized and its lifespan extended in perpetuity. state of exception race Algeria colonial law penal law This essay addresses the question of how colonial histories might be “written back” into genealogies of exception. Its...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (3): 279–294.
Published: 01 December 2013
..., Kamran Asdar Ali, and Asad Ahmad for their comments on earlier drafts of this essay. Research for this project was funded by the Wenner-Grenn Foundation and the American Institute of Pakistan Studies. References Agamben Georgio . State of Exception . Chicago : University of Chicago Press...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (2): 248–255.
Published: 01 August 2020
... that Giorgio Agamben's focus on juridical issues of exception is partly misleading, for many forms of exception arise outside of the realm of emergency. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 36. I am grateful to Michael Ayari for pointing to these derogatory comments against the people...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (2): 223–224.
Published: 01 August 2020
... in structuring exceptional state power and the justification of legal exceptionalism in our current moment of permanent war. Next, we turn to the question of the law of the seas and its relation to maritime empires, territoriality, and state formation from medieval to modern times, which scholars have been...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 644–651.
Published: 01 December 2014
... empire colonialism United States Britain exceptionalism References Bacevich A. J. American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of US Diplomacy . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2002 . Bergsten C. Fred , and Institute for International Economics . The United...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 115–118.
Published: 01 May 2020
... as spaces of exception, it is here that the originary violence founding the modern state routinely manifests itself. 2 At the same time, however, these are also important spaces of resistance that have exposed the limits of nationalist, colonial, and racial regimes of domination. Nourished...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 630–636.
Published: 01 December 2014
... in Comparative Perspective .” Slavic Review 65 , no. 1 ( 2006 ): 231 – 51 . Kramer Paul A. “ Empire, Exceptions, and Anglo-Saxons: Race and Rule between the British and United States Empires, 1880–1910 .” Journal of American History 88 , no. 4 ( 2002 ): 1315 – 53 . Lieven Dominic...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 618–625.
Published: 01 December 2014
...,” Go writes, “only the United States and sion and for legal innovation and exception. Britain indisputably fit this category [of global he- Patterns of Empire seeks to develop a larger gemon]. Britain dominated the world economy in theory of empires. As such, time as history...