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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 451–461.
Published: 01 December 2019
... tended to have an affinity with the group and community they work with, this article explores the implications of research among a group of men in charge of surveillance, intelligence gathering, and citizen suppression in the country. The article argues that in the midst of national security rhetoric...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 425–438.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Farhana Ibrahim Abstract Studies on militarization and borders in South Asia often focus on zones of spectacular conflict, such as Kashmir, or partition violence in Punjab. This article examines the production of everyday policing in a zone of high surveillance that is not a conventional military...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 439–450.
Published: 01 December 2019
... made acceptable for a range of borderland residents. Security socialities point to the inextricable ties between everyday and spectacular violence of security projects and the relations that constitute them. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 mobility surveillance gender India...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 490–493.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Ilana Feldman Abstract This brief essay reflects on a collection of anthropological investigations of security and surveillance practices in South Asia and the Middle East. The articles in the collection highlight what looking at security matters reveals about families, migration, borderland...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 421–424.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Sahana Ghosh Abstract This introduction offers a critical survey of existing scholarship on security and surveillance, especially post-9/11. Presenting the five essays of this special section, it illustrates the new directions they provide for the study of civil-military relations and surveillance...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (1): 49–63.
Published: 01 May 2017
... the acceleration of income inequality in rural areas and a huge increase in wheat consumption in cities. The article argues the long-term success of this regime depended on both the improvement of surveillance and coercive technocracy mediated through the military courts and the naturalization of public attitudes...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (1): 147–159.
Published: 01 May 2014
... reports. It engages with a series of regulations on policing not only as a site of modern state formation policies centered on the aims of development, progress, and surveillance, but also as a multifunctional space of conflicting and fragmented experiences articulated through misconduct and dysfunction...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (1): 176–190.
Published: 01 May 2014
...David Gutman Gutman’s article examines the attempts by the Ottoman state under Sultan Abdulhamid II to prevent large-scale Armenian migration to North America. It reveals how these efforts were hampered in practice by contradictions inherent within the state’s attempts to control and surveil...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 245–261.
Published: 01 August 2017
... linearly from darkened to illuminated nightlife; rather, the two modes of nocturnal leisure coexisted. Likewise, the new ways of “seeing through darkness” that were devised by the state developed alongside (rather than instead of) well-established patterns of communal surveillance. These patterns...
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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 (2021) 41 (3): 298–299.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Harris Solomon Abstract This short story set in Mumbai imagines the enduring legacies of pandemic sickness and immunity. Everyday labors, pleasures, demands, and relations must be navigated across the fault lines of health, illness, and state surveillance. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 300–311.
Published: 01 December 2021
... surveillance of criminals and vagabonds as well as a scientific context marked by a key mutation: the birth of the immunized self. 14. Brown, Medical Register , 164 . 15. In A Treatise on the Small-Pox and Measles , translated into English in 1848, Rhazes (880–932 AD) gave the first modern...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 359–360.
Published: 01 December 2019
... section “Living through Surveillance” offer ways to think about the everyday life of prolonged surveillance and interrogate its temporal and spatial expanse. Using civil-military relations as a lens, they explore how militarization transforms spaces, reconfigures social relations, and makes the presence...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 36–50.
Published: 01 May 2022
... in line with Arendt's depiction of “totalitarian regimes,” “where everyone may be a police agent and each individual may feel himself under constant surveillance.” 120 These developments appear to be the symptoms of a fascist shift. It is, clearly, early to discuss the arrival of a fascist state...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 1–2.
Published: 01 May 2020
... Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 In our last issue we explored questions of licit and illicit economies of production alongside fractured geopolitical borderlands with a focus on questions of formal and informal practices of surveillance. This issue continues to explore...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 285–297.
Published: 01 December 2021
... from this pandemic? Finally, there has been a deepening of global biopolitics, international and national surveillance mechanisms, and health-security-focused laws that have implications for mobility, migration, privacy, and safety as legal, moral, and biological justifications have often been...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (1): 73–88.
Published: 01 May 2018
... their capacities as self-entrepreneurs. References Altınay Ayşe Gül . The Myth of the Military- Nation: Militarism, Gender, and Education in Turkey . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2004 . Andrejevic Mark . “ The Discipline of Watching: Detection, Risk, and Lateral Surveillance...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (2): 367–383.
Published: 01 August 2007
... of surveillance intended to contain the
spread in West Africa of political and religious ideas—ranging from Nasser-infl ected national-
ism to Wahhabi or “reformist” Islam—that colonial “experts” believed to be emanating from...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 475–489.
Published: 01 December 2019
... Muslims in the Valley and the country at large. This article grapples with understanding and conceptualizing civil-military relations in the absence of exceptional, visible violence in a heavily militarized and surveilled space. Scholarship on Palestine and the Kashmir Valley has offered us a rich...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 401–403.
Published: 01 December 2020
... Throughout the world, state power has both diminished and extended. New quarantine measures have been unevenly applied and enforced, but they are continuously resisted, curtailed, or ignored by ordinary citizens. Unprecedented surveillance has extended the tentacles of the state yet also has...
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