... responses constituting this book forum. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 paradox contradiction politics power violence References Tareen SherAli . “ Disrupting Secular Power and the Study of Religion: Saba Mahmood .” In Cultural Approaches to Studying Religion...

... of violence predominantly in caste relations, but also beyond, in the comparative contexts of revolutions and formations of nation-states in the modern world. The essay reconstructs and interprets Ambedkar as a foundational thinker of sovereignty, republicanism, and agonism. In so doing, it analyzes...

...Ruchi Chaturvedi Abstract This essay revolves around different types of violence witnessed in political society and their relationship to the democratic form that many postcolonial states have inherited. It especially draws on studies of popular protests, negrophobic and xenophobic violence against...

... in North Africa. From a direct form of racialized violence leaving Muslim Tunisians on the low end of the colonial social ladder of worth, salaries, and the right to life, one moved to a more symbolic form of violence, with the south of the country quasi-racialized as less valuable than the urban coastal...

...Johan Mathew Abstract This article outlines a process of enclosing private property on the Arabian Sea through the colonial imposition of secure property rights during the nineteenth century. The article proceeds in two paralleled sections. The first section explores the violence of the natural...

...Panashe Chigumadzi; Imraan Coovadia; Arash Davari; Bongani Kona; Elleni Centime Zeleke Abstract This dialogue, recorded in 2021, explores the sound and feel of South-South political theory from the perspective of Southern Africa. The interlocutors discuss the question of violence and nonviolence...

... of our ecological crisis by revealing a spectrum of violence within certain strands of animistic ontologies. Simultaneously the author shows how Western repertoires of thought reveal framing devices that transcend dualism and may be read as the precursors of contemporary environmental consciousness...

... n oent nIa,1906–1911 Iran, in Modernity and Culture, Violence, Revolutionary Revolver: a of Chamber the through Born World A esl eeca a enJyWne’ td fWrdWrI War World of remembrance: study Winter’s and Jay been has beneficial mensely...

...Aijaz Ahmed © 1994: South Asia Bulletin 1994 South Asia Bulbtin, Vol. XIV No. 1 (1994) Nation, Community, Violence Aijaz Ahmed On December 27, 1992-some three weeks after ments on the historical origins and theoretical the destruction of Mir Baqi’s mosque in Ayodhya...

...Asghar Ali Engineer © 1994: South Asia Bulletin 1994 South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XIV No. 2 (1994) Communal Violence and the Role of law Enforcement Agencies Asghar Ali Engineer The role of the police in communal riots has be- most visible part...

...Munis Faruqui © 1994: South Asia Bulletin 1995 Commentary Contextualizing Karachi’s Violence Munis Faruqui Two American consular officials were ambushed nation.” Unfortunately, the government’s callous and killed by unknown assailants...

... to challenge the entrapments of contemporary violence but also to do so in a self-reflexively anti-redemptory fashion. They conceptualize narrative violence as a modality of cultural and literary analysis, practice and critique; understand violence as a historically situated phenomenon in constant need...

...Nouri Gana This essay seeks to investigate the aporias and dilemmas of representation that Arab writers and artists confront at a time when the Arab world has become overly mediatized and ideologically territorialized as a zone of sectarian violence and death. For all the reports on Iraq, Palestine...

...), the essay examines how political manipulation and the rhetoric and genre of human rights discourse stifle the narratives on the violence and trauma of the Congolese population. It seeks to understand why the rape narratives of women of some nations effectively elicit empathy and convey the violence, trauma...

... and created communities of listeners. In reading Country of My Skull alongside Rian Malan's My Traitor's Heart , another contentious memoir about apartheid, I suggest that narratives reporting the aftermath of violence on people may inherently always betray victims since writers and readers invariably move...

...Asha Varadharajan This essay deploys a bricolage of the reflections of Michel Foucault, Jean-Luc Nancy, William E. Connolly, and Achille Mbembe in order to construct a phenomenology of violence. While much of the essay is a response to the collection's trenchant analysis of the historicity...

...Asghar Ali Engineer Copyright 1987: South Asia Bulletin 1987 SOUTH ASIA BULLETIN Vol. 7 (1987) Towards a Materialist Explanation of Communal Violence Asghar Ali Engineer Elements Contributing to Communal Violence day's...

... to advance social, economic, and security reforms, the Afghan government, assisted by international forces, faces escalating insurgency by Taliban and al-Qaeda militants. This complex and dangerous situation questions the possibility of imminent peace and stable democracy in a country where violence...

...Hagar Kotef This essay seeks to define the current regime of national security, tracing a shift within the gender categories that subtend notions of justified (state) violence. It focuses on Israel's occupation, and in particular its violent control over the Gaza Strip, to examine the relations...

...: Rethinking Violence, Secularism, and Islam in Germany Beverly M. Weber he ongoing and contentious debates on the presence of the hijab in public space...