...Regan Buck Bardeen The Maphumulo Uprising: War, Law, and Ritual in the Zulu Rebellion Jeff Guy Scottsville, South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2005 xii + 276 pp., $34.95 (paper) © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 Producing Desire: “regulate...

...Zakia Salime After the euphoria of the first waves of the Arab uprisings that toppled two heads of state in Tunisia and Egypt, the woman's body became the frontline of the protest scene. The unitary mass-revolutionary body that marked the visual memories of the first weeks of the uprisings ceded...

...Nermeen Mouftah Mouftah’s article explores Egyptian anxieties about ignorance and how the January 2011 uprising brought new urgency to calls for managing it. In post-Mubarak Egypt, literacy activism became a major platform from which to “continue the revolution.” Drawing on ethnographic research...

...Aptin Khanbaghi About a half century after ruling Iran and shortly after conquering Central Asian lands (695–747 CE), the Muslim Arabs introduced political measures to Islamize these regions. Their policies generated discontent, and a period of uprisings followed that lasted nine decades (747–837...

... accepted them as educated individuals. Ze’evi argues that a distinct change came after waves of European con- The Maphumulo Uprising: descension. In other words, Ottoman and Arabic War, Law, and Ritual...

... of imperialism and dictatorship as the only available options for struggle. As Moradian notes, within the context of increasing authoritarianism in Iran that targeted women's freedoms, in 1979 an Iranian women's uprising took place. Moradian is careful to identify the 1979 Iranian women's uprising as an act...

... of imperialism, dictatorship, and diaspora” (7). This is a profound insight that has powerful resonance today, especially because it was published during the radical women's uprising in Iran that began in September 2022 after Iranian state agents murdered a Kurdish Iranian woman, Mahsa Jina Amini. Reading...

... of us; it is again to demote reproductive labors and life-making to a secondary concern; and it is to find consolation where there might not be any. And yet the question still remains: how do we understand remaindered life in relation to a present that seems synonymous with the condition of uprising...

... mind, the chapter in the book that makes these intimacies in all senses of the word most apparent is the penultimate one, titled “Intersectional Anti-Imperialism: Alternative Genealogies of Revolution and Diaspora.” Manijeh's analysis here of the women's uprising in Iran in March 1979 is, quite simply...

..., sparked a popular uprising that the French violently suppressed after leaving scores of civilians dead or wounded. The political ramifications of the intifada weighed heavily on the nationalist choices of the majority of the Lebanese Shiites, who ultimately joined Grand Liban hoping...

... structures of provincial government while at the in yet another aspect of the dilemma of gov- same time limiting their authority clearly and erning Yemen in the aftermath of the 1904–7 unambiguously to the local. More specifi cally, I uprising. While a number of senior offi cials ap- argue...

...: Infanticide and Survival under the Raj .” History Workshop Journal 53 ( 2002 ): 73 – 93 . Anderson Clare . The Indian Uprising of 1857–58: Prisons, Prisoners, and Rebellion . New York : Anthem Press , 2007 . Anghie Anthony . Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International...

... the interpretive and historicizing understanding of the struggles and lives of subaltern groups. 13 In cultural studies, the problematic of signification tends to displace questions of practice, subaltern experience, organization, and strategy. The popular uprisings of 2011, the Rojava Revolution...

... education; and debates about citizenship and justice after the Arab uprisings. The Columbia Global Centers in Paris and Amman generously hosted three of these workshops. I am grateful for the support of CSSD, the European Institute, and the Luce Foundation, which supported a project I initiated called...

... Solomon . “ Occupancy Urbanism: Radicalizing Politics and Economy beyond Policy and Programs .” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 32 , no. 3 ( 2008 ): 719 – 29 . Branch Adam , and Mampilly Zachariah . Africa Uprising: Popular Protest and Political Change...

... of authoritarianism” (216). Moradian demonstrates this by reflecting on the March 1979 Women's Uprising, during which tens of thousands of women participated in “meetings, demonstrations, and sit-ins to demand full legal equality and to support a host of other democratic demands” (224). Starting on International...

... are likely either to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Socialist Repub- seek to mobilize and organize these elements lics acted similarly, focusing nationalist passions of society or to pressure the regime by using on unpopular leaders who were identified with the uprisings of peasants or workers...

...Haideh Moghissi Duke University Press 2009 Women and the 1979 Revolution: Refusing Religion-Defined Womanhood Haideh Moghissi here were unforgettable moments in the last few days of the 1979 uprising in Iran that after thirty years are vivid in my mind, notably...

... Spring, popular revolts and uprisings against long-standing and increasingly unpopular political regimes have been spreading from the Middle East and North Africa to the rest of the continent. 1 Many of these protests have taken place in Africa's rapidly growing cities. While some have been one-off...

... in Economics . New York: Monthly Review Press. Goldstone , Jack A. ( 1980 ). “Theories of Revolution: The Third Generation”, World Politics , 32 ( 3 ): 425 –453. Gough , Kathleen ( 1974 ). “Indian Peasant Uprisings”, Economic and Political Weekly , 9 ( 32–34 ): 1391 –1412. Gour...