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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (2): 241–248.
Published: 01 August 2019
...; the weaver is seen as a laboring body rather than an innovative mind. Yet through theorizing handloom weaving as sociotechnology, this essay endeavors to explicate the sustainability and innovation in handloom weaving. Studying examples of innovation in handloom weavers, the essay explores craft livelihoods...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (2): 312–323.
Published: 01 August 2010
... system and makes recommendations to help Zambia achieve its goal to build a sustainable middle class. Duke University Press 2010 Improving Educational Opportunities:
Can Public Administrators Build...
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in Propulsions: Mobility in Southern Urbanism
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Published: 01 May 2020
Figure 1. The train tracks are the site of economic activity and a constant flow of foot traffic sustains this activity. Photograph by the authors, Kibera, 2016.
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (3): 569–587.
Published: 01 December 2011
... interconnections with a wider Ottoman-Turkish musical culture that has sustained historical traces in Turkish synagogues today. Focusing primarily on a Jewish musical form with close links to Ottoman court music, the Maftirim repertoire, the study investigates the changing urban landscape of intercommunal music...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (2): 354–360.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Goolam Vahed Isabel Hofmeyr's Gandhi's Printing Press underlines the significance of Indian Opinion in Gandhi's South African project of fostering Indianness, draws parallels with print cultures elsewhere, and highlights the role of the Phoenix Settlement in sustaining Satyagraha. Among...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (1): 174–177.
Published: 01 May 2016
... “Europe alone as a site of reason” with “other cultures as violent,” thus setting up “Europe as a trustee” of human civilization. The darker side of European modernity, Grovogui argues, is the tendency to ignore the subjectivity of the rest; this “absence of critical comparative studies sustains...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 407–419.
Published: 01 December 2019
... it into a shadow economy that ultimately converges with financing for al-Shabaab, even as this economy sustains seafaring populations in the midst of economic precarity. Tracing dhow itineraries in tandem with shifting regulations across South Asia and East Africa, the article charts an alternate course of Indian...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (1): 2–8.
Published: 01 May 2014
... to standard polemical tracts and sustained treatises. In turn the insurgent thinker-activists around whom this section is framed are figures who challenged established traditions of thought and action—critical theory as such—by imagining political and ethical possibilities that were global in scope yet deeply...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 206–220.
Published: 01 May 2022
... nor disavowed in their universal reach but sustained (in their unsustainability) through norms and morals reiterated in their articulation, sense-making trouble, and measurement of worth. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 slow death refugee crisis...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (1): 106–125.
Published: 01 May 2014
...—toward a theory of the “new imperialism,” Powers argues that Black Reconstruction subverts a triumphal narrative of American constitutionalism as exceptionalism by undoing the temporality of legal progressivism that sustains it. Writing against a generation of historians who treated Reconstruction...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 427–441.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Siarhei Bohdan Abstract This article investigates Iranian–North Korean cooperation after the 1979 revolution in Iran as a case of sustained efforts effectively aimed at implementing Third Worldist ideas. Both Iranian revolutionaries and North Korean Communist officials referred to Third Worldism...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (2): 155–170.
Published: 01 August 2009
... future aching deep in the consciousness of a people with painful memories of suffering, struggle, and survival against the historical ravages of slavery, colonialism, and neocolonialism, a longing for sustainable development, for viable African modernities. Recently, the dreams and discourses...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 470–488.
Published: 01 August 2022
..., the program announced a commitment to popular struggle against imperially sustained settler colonialism in Palestine while calling into question the authoritarian practices of most regional regimes. Drawing from periodicals, memoirs, diplomatic sources, and interviews, this article considers the efforts...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 115–118.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Marlene Schäfers; Esin Düzel Abstract How are resistance movements able to sustain political commitment and morale amid ongoing state violence? How do conflicts over sovereignty find articulation in contestations over affective belonging and moral values, thereby shaping intimate lives and gendered...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 119–132.
Published: 01 May 2020
...” materialized, this article seeks to investigate what moral expectations, normative standards, and gendered subjectivities this narrative generates. The Kurdish case reveals how narratives of empowerment form a crucial part of the moral and gendered bargains that sustain and legitimate resistance movements...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (2): 277–290.
Published: 01 August 2020
... of power in India. This article proposes the notion that the hegemony of a centralized modern state belongs only to a narrow sliver of history, hiding a much deeper pluralism within global history. In so doing, this article sets the stage for a sustained consideration of the plural nature of authority...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (2): 225–229.
Published: 01 August 2020
...-Atlantic historical experiences and legal traditions. Third, these essays signal the need for more sustained exploration at the nexus of law, labor, and violence. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 state of exception race colonialism law sovereignty It is almost...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (2): 231–232.
Published: 01 August 2019
...), Annapurna Mamidipudi and Uzramma examine the loom as an epistemic rather than merely a cultural object. In her essay, Mamidipudi asks what it means to theorize traditional hand weaving as a sustainable technology and invites us to consider the future of hand weaving as an alternative craft set against our...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (3): 647–655.
Published: 01 December 2007
... and diaspora; the emic “study of diasporas” and identity or to create new ones that sustained its
the etic field of diaspora studies; disciplinary difference from the host society. Finally, diaspo-
appropriations and inflections of diaspora; and ras were identified...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2006) 26 (1): 51–62.
Published: 01 May 2006
... Vulnerability
n this essay my general objective is limited to arguing for the need to construct and
sustain a legitimate and viable normative framework for cosmopolitan justice. However,
I will open this discussion on a personal note. I believe myself to be a cosmopolitan
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