...Vinay Gidwani; Anant Maringanti Capitalist value making is underwritten by the production and disposal of waste through a complex, often invisible economy of informal waste recycling. This infra-economy is anchored by nodes that process and circulate variegated forms of waste generated in cities...

...Vinay Bahl © 1993: South Asia Bulletin 1993 South Asiu Bulletin, Vol. XI11 Nos. 1 & 2 (1993). Class Consciousness and Primordial Values in the Shaping of the Indian Working Class Vinay Bahl There has been a major shift in Indian historiog- process...

... Kemal Mustafa nostalgia. to orshuttemptation preventofinfluence to locked tight seeping and any slammed Amy Values and Institutions, TurkishCulture, Contemporary for Legacy Ottoman The Introduction...

...Mansoor Moaddel Duke University Press 2009 The Iranian Revolution and its Nemesis: The Rise of Liberal Values among Iranians Mansoor Moaddel he rise...

...Yusuf Sarfati Democratic Values in the Muslim World Fattah Moataz A. Boulder, CO : Lynne Rienner , 2006 v + 209 pp., $23.50 (paper) © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 The Merchant Houses of Mocha: Mocha’s commercial ties. The Merchant Houses of Trade...

... upon numerical reasoning driven by discourses of financial calculations of value and potential risks within the emerging urban real-estate market. The article contends that the regulations surrounding the housing speculation during the 1920s were an early bureaucratic exercise in rationalizing...

...May Telmissany Cinema has been for many diasporic communities the privileged site of self-representation and sometimes of idealistic (re)construction of homeland. Over the past thirty years, Palestinian cinema has constituted a site for negotiation and circulation of values and behaviors that have...

... the production of value through transparent practices of calculation and have focused on the Global North. As an alternative, we use ethnographic and historical genealogical methods to explore predictive practices that are motivated by contingency and aim to make uncertainty productive. India, a celebrated...

... value as an instrument for historical analysis that is restricted neither solely to minority-majority relations nor to debates about (political) representation. Instead, the authors propose a global intellectual history of “minority” as a concept and experience, which is explored in the essays compiled...

...Fahad Ahmad Bishara Abstract This article takes a single genre of the Persian Gulf pearl dive—the chau manual, used to determine the weight-based value of a pearl—and draws on it to think about circulation and commodification in the Indian Ocean world. In reading the chau manual, as well as other...

... on the grounds of which humanity is constructed, valued, allocated, or withheld. I argue that Abu-Assad's Paradise Now reopens the corridors of distant empathizing and shakes awake the intoxicated slumbering of our sobering imaginative impulses. Paradise Now treads the fine line between interpreting...

... of Europe to be laid in ancestral soils in countries of origin. Through interviews with Muslim death-care workers and community members the authors analyze the significance and symbolic value that such posthumous journeys carry in postmigratory settings. They argue that the Muslim corpse embodies a range...

... (1979–2008). More than just primers, Farsi textbooks serve as the foundation of the state’s project to produce the New Islamic Citizen by providing young students with their first exposure to the ideology of the Revolution and the offcial values of the Islamic Republic. This article demonstrates...

... offer new tools for thinking about the effects of living in securitized worlds and underscore the value of looking from perhaps unexpected vantage points to understand an arguably global condition. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 police security ambiguity anthropology...

...: the journal Middle Eastern Literatures and the series “Middle Eastern Literatures in Translation.” In both cases the primary value is generating dialogue between specialists from different backgrounds. Tell Me Something I Don’t Know Michael Beard here are subjects that call out for commitment...

... (unbeknownst to Defoe), paper, pen, and ink. With these tools Marx's Robinson enacts the theory of value in the time of factory labor and the incomplete abolition of slavery. Al-Bustānī—like Faraḥ Anṭūn forty years later—confronts this unevenly syncopated, up-to-the-minute temporality in Arabic, as imperial...

... into this phenomenon. Settler colonialism has served to intensify the Palestinian land market through a curated land scarcity, all while managing the distribution of relative “security” and risk of land title. This has affected land value, land availability, and land use. When the settler legal system is known...

... of the lives and activities of Islamic societies today, an alternative concept of secularism, rather than simply an alternative to it, needs to be worked out. The challenge is not to abandon secularism but to formulate it as a philosophy with spiritual values, rather than solely a policy of the state...