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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 73–79.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Diana Martinez Abstract Focusing on reinforced concrete technology, the purpose of this essay is to underscore the particular material conditions that made the concrete city—presented as synonymous with the modern urban condition—not only possible but global. By examining Chicago and Manila through...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (1): 59–74.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Nelida Fuccaro Fuccaro’s article explores new geographies of leisure and consumption that emerged in Manama and in Bahrain’s oil camps in the first decades of oil development. New forms of public communication such as the press, printed materials, and cinema are used to explore urban spaces, actors...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 565–583.
Published: 01 December 2020
..., and scientific registers, is shaped on the ground, in collaboration, and confrontation, with material ecologies and nonhuman actors, often in unexpected ways. Attention to these localized and mundane interactions between practitioners and material ecologies reveals their collective role in assembling urban...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 532–548.
Published: 01 December 2014
... and the specificity of waste’s material and discursive dimensions provide fertile ground on which to contest the disposability of labor and lay bare the ethics of infrastructure. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 infrastructure discard citizenship urban Africa This article is based...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (2): 313–327.
Published: 01 August 2019
... and monuments, are instead archives of historical knowledge and cultural memory and can be read like documents. 22 However, the preservation of urban material heritage in the context of Israel/Palestine raises further questions: the founding of Israel as a Jewish state entailed the systematic erasure...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (1): 26–40.
Published: 01 May 2013
..., it was the
recognized as part of Iraq. It was also in close prox- IPC, with its capital, advanced infrastructure, and
imity to predominantly Kurdish areas that were in access to building materials that first spearheaded
a state of active rebellion against the Anglo-Iraqi urban development projects in Kirkuk after...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (2): 263–276.
Published: 01 August 2024
..., and the autonomous subject. Specifically, the article identifies key forces that produce this failure, including education, presence in the Westernized university, Westernized secularization, social class, family background, and urbanity, all situated within the larger structures of modernity/coloniality. Doing...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (3): 557–568.
Published: 01 December 2011
... of elite philanthropy; the second is physical, readily discovered in the urban fabric of most Turkish cities, notably Istanbul. This article examines these legacies in order to analyze the nature of state building and society formation in modern Turkey from a new perspective. Both continuities and changes...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 574–582.
Published: 01 December 2010
... nationalist narrative marginalized if not rendered silent the 1920s Istanbul jazz scene. In this article, I historicize jazz and highlight a transnational border crossing of performers and cultural products. By so doing, I place the city as being a participant of an urban transnational latitude. Specifically...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 574–581.
Published: 01 December 2014
... of a material struggle over urban space. In particular, it considers the writings of the South Asian scholar and activist Abul Kalam Azad, a major figure in the Indian Khilafat movement and the Indian National Congress, who was simultaneously a critic of the nation form and communalism (on the basis...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 190–193.
Published: 01 May 2024
... market and an ever-changing urban environment. Their complex actions went beyond the material to include a profound understanding of temporality. They embraced the uncertainty emerging from the chaotic background surrounding exchanges in the market as a source of opportunity. Simone ends this story...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 8–23.
Published: 01 May 2019
... and to the nation (these practices are important in relation to a host of indigenous “occult” or spiritual economies that comment on the circulation of urban material wealth among racialized Asians, past and present). 24 Philanthropic and other charitable activities often involve publicity and the public...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 3–6.
Published: 01 May 2020
... regulation in producing stigmatized space, and then to the work of objects, materials, and manual labor in animating space and bringing it (back) to life. The section “Climate Catastrophe” explores a set of terms—prediction, uncertainty, and air—at the junctures of climate, urbanization...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (1): 183–195.
Published: 01 May 2011
... Geographies, National Imaginaries,
and Global Discourses of Tolerance
Amy Mills
ecause Ottoman material culture survives in architecture and urban form, the built
environment serves as a continual reminder of local links to a lived, Ottoman past.1
As this essay...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (1): 112–133.
Published: 01 May 2016
... develop- critique of capitalism and current trajectories of
ment, is facilitated by the manufacture of strategic urbanization. To the extent that waste in its het-
meanings and silences through public discourse. erogeneous material forms, some more unyielding
Our strong claim here...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 275–292.
Published: 01 December 2023
... on materiality, which is the study of material phenomena, including physical objects, buildings, documents, and urban space. Scholars of Palestinian refugee camps such as Nasser Abourahme and Lucas Oesch have shown how objects such as cement, concrete, and roads represent fields of political struggle in which...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 24–34.
Published: 01 May 2020
... the act of seeing. By thinking through one refugee's experience and analyzing urbanism, architectural form and symbolism, and spatial-political organization, this essay suggests that ephemerality plays a part in structuring subjectivity, with implications for the narration of history. 23. Trouillot...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 208–216.
Published: 01 May 2024
... transactions, that securitization and financialization have nothing to do really with managing the population. We no longer see the biopolitical thing of managing the population. So the urban cores of so many cities have simply become abstractions. While these abstractions are materialized in built...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 164–166.
Published: 01 May 2024
... and their environments from the knee-deep muddy waters of its littorals? Where do we take urban histories, which have remained landlocked till very recently, when we see the ports from their environmental edges? What does the port, its harbors, and its hinterlands look like from the bobbing waves of the ocean...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 35–42.
Published: 01 May 2020
...-environmental regulation became more and more important: layout design, urban planning, mapping, housing construction, plot sizing, sanitation and hygiene reform, the tight control of flows of building materials, and a strict permits system for building all became critical (see figures 1 and 2 ). Planning...
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