Search Results for war and politics

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

...John Chen Abstract Muslim leaders in China experienced political and social fracture and intellectual reorientation as a result of the Chinese Civil War (1945–49) and the early Cold War. Influential Chinese Muslim and Uyghur imams and officials who were once allies and friends found themselves...

... the Cold War superpower confidently guiding its impact, it appears here as an intimate part of an African-managed infrastructure of political exile. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 86. Kate Robins, interview by the author, December 20, 2017, Gainesville, FL; Gail Gerhart, interview...

.... They examine how the inter-Asian lens allows us to rethink the history of the twentieth-century Middle East. Central to such rethinking is the destabilization of some of the dichotomous categories that were normalized during the Cold War and that have greatly shaped how we view culture, economy, politics...

... ), 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...

... 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...

... (occurring at a conjuncture of Cold War politics). West Pakistanis are also deemed to have looked down upon East Pakistanis, and racialized and gendered discourses toward Bengalis have persisted over time. To call some West Pakistanis “Bengalis” was taken as something of an insult. 11 What implications...

... between the colonial and the “post” or as a pawn in the geopolitics of the Cold War—but as a complex place engaged in the messy and difficult work of building dreams of economic and political autonomy in concrete. At key moments, the USSR played a vital role in this transformation. Together, we aim...

... 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...

... thought contains profound and powerful critiques of modern political ideas and institutions, including nationalism. Writing in the context of the emergence of the new state of Pakistan and the onset of the cold war, Hashim's comparative approach presented Islamic political philosophy as a better...

.... 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...

...- 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...

... political struggle against imperialism and reactionary Gulf monarchs, tying together revolutionaries from both sides of the Gulf. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Persian Gulf solidarity internationalism Cold War Iranian Left On March 30...

... in their potentiality for sovereignty and decimated in war with the Hindus. Savarkar, this article concludes, based the Hindu body politic on kinship and a vision of gendered incorporation modeled on war. References Aldred Guy . “ ‘Hindu’ Defined .” The Word 8 , no. 10 ( 1947 ): 118 . Alter...

... 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...