... food and politics ecological disasters political economy war and politics References Abbott Keith Edward . Cities and Trade: Consul Abbott on the Economy and Society of Iran, 1847–1866 . Edited by Amanat Abbas . London : Ithaca Press , 1983 . Abu-Lughod Janet...

... them to Transjordan. Duke University Press 2008 Fauzi al-Qawuqji and the Arab Liberation Army in the 1948 War toward the Attainment of King ‘Abdallah’s Political Ambitions in Palestine Ronen Yitzhak hen Britain decided to appoint ‘Abdallah ibn al-Hussein to be the emir...

...Melissa Kelly War and political persecution led thousands of Iranians to migrate to Sweden in the 1980s and 1990s. Forced to flee from their homeland to a relatively unknown place, the lives of these migrants changed both abruptly and dramatically. Since their arrival in Sweden, and up...

... to politics of the Cold War competition, global intellectual trends, and decolonization movements. In this context, the article focuses on the Islamist appropriation of Arnold Toynbee's ideas on civilizational relations in world history and how Toynbee's writings were utilized in critiques of modernization...

... . “ The People, Rhetoric, and Affect: On the Political Force of Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk .” American Political Science Review 106 , no. 1 ( 2012 ): 188 – 203 . Rothman Adam . “ Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction .” In American History Now , edited by Foner Eric McGirr...

..., the normalization of exception. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 political justice state of exception repression On November 13, 2015, the most deadly attacks in France since the Second World War took place. A murderous hostage taking in a Parisian concert hall (Le Bataclan), a series...

... ), Doctors Without Borders' R D Congo: Silence, on meurt ( D. R. Congo: Quiet, We're Dying ), and Human Rights Watch's Shattered Lives , Seeking Justice , and The War within the War and through Terry George's film and book Hotel Rwanda , this study discusses the ideological nature and the political...

... in shambles in the last years of World War Political Research Antwerp Joint Research Sessions, II. By the time it comes to a close in 1960, France University of Antwerp, April 10 – 15, 2012. and formerly French sub-­Saharan Africa have  . “Perforated Sovereignties, Agnostic Pluralism...

... internationalism. Adalet suggests a reading of Baldwin as a comparative thinker who increasingly abandoned an imperial framework of comparison in favor of a more fluid approach that could unearth the particularities of oppression. In early writings, for instance, Baldwin enacted a Cold War politics of comparison...

... the Second World War, primarily as a reaction to the mass destruction experienced in European cities. Managing “heritage” in the context of the global political imagination created after the war, UNESCO has become the key player, lead actor, and sole orchestrator of all things/sites/memories—tangible...

..., these articles recover a global entanglement that was energized by unbounded political, economic, and technological aspiration, but that produced an uneven material footprint in newly independent African states. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 Africa the Soviet Union Cold War socialism...

... and civilizational theorists. This alternative perspective is useful to grasp the powerful new social reality in the form of militant Islam that has been unleashed since the end of the Cold War: altering culture, language, social, and political policy, while targeting women in many Muslim-majority societies. I argue...

... reconstructs the political and ideological reasoning of this spectrum opposed to Nazism in the period from early 1933 until the end of World War II. Represented by various groupings actively engaged in local political and cultural debates, these circles represented a relevant part of contemporary Syrian...

...- and Several years of successive political crises menting the war, which began only a few months Cinema had left many divisions of the state-run media in into their training. The instructors organized shambles. Broadcast hours were cut significantly volunteer film units from among these fresh re...

... resistance, and religious and political fundamentalisms. They also discuss         10.1215/1089201University “colonial feminism” and “imperialist feminism” in the context of current wars and occupation      doi Duke     by in the Middle East, examine the mutually...

.... For the concept of long-­distance nationalism, The Hadhramis in Indonesia during World War II and lims: Arab Ethnicity and Politics in Java under Dutch see Benedict Anderson, “Exodus,” Critical Inquiry the Struggle for Independence,” in this issue; and de Rule,” in Freitag and Clarence-­Smith, Hadhrami Trad...

... political violence that has been thriving on unequal distribution of life and death. Political violence past and present in the region has caused famines, starving masses to death. Still today millions incessantly risk their lives to escape death in homelands turned into war zones. Thousands lose...

... in the early medieval period. The essay thus uncovers a history of falsity and warring falsities and then correlates the tendencies of figuration that seemed to prove inseparable from the poetic conquest of political reality in Sanskrit. It traces tropes of sadism and sexual abuse and uncovers the threads...

... “the tongue of a martyr,” the “strange” shahādat by making it possible for a political subject world of amnesia and vanity he witnessed in 1986. to at once be martyred and survive as a constant Already six years into the Iran-­Iraq War, in witness, if not in his or her own...

... the particular interests of the big powers. countries, ended up as dominated by the foreign On the political side, the main discussion policy interests of the Soviet Union. This became at the conference was on the subject of human even more marked in the era of the Cold War. rights. It is particularly...