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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (1): 75–88.
Published: 01 May 2013
... as “the clearest impression” the world had of Abadan. This article is based on a paper that was presented at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, as part of the 2010 Historians of Islamic Art and Architecture symposium. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 The Oil City in Focus...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 497–517.
Published: 01 December 2014
... are mitigated, and provides insight not only into how the poor achieve a measure of water security, but also into how the “world-class” effect of uninterrupted infrastructure is produced. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 infrastructure Mumbai water distribution world-class city...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 574–582.
Published: 01 December 2010
... legibility of the city.8
scribe. Critic Akil Cem had even proposed that In the aftermath of World War I, the social...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (3): 437–445.
Published: 01 December 2017
... in Motion; King, Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya; Willford, Cage of Free- dom; and Yeoh, Limiting Cosmopolitanism. 26. Yeoh, Introduction: The World Class City, 2. 27. King, Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya, xxiv. 28. Mahathir Mohammad served as prime min- ister of Malaysia from 1981 until 2003. 29. See Baxstrom...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 437–439.
Published: 01 December 2014
...- that transform the negative associations of trash
development of neighborhoods to transform Mum- into the values of a well-ordered life. The bodily
bai into a “world-class city.” In place of an orderly labor of pickers and recyclers, the moral claims of
substructure that can be mapped, managed...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 547–562.
Published: 01 December 2010
... replaced the clogged traffic circles that once also served as social spaces in which pe-
destrians gathered, particularly on weekend evenings. Amman is emerging as a world-class
neoliberal city — or so the development projects, free trade zones, skyscrapers, and amenities
for the wealthy would...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (1): 112–133.
Published: 01 May 2016
... Neoliberalism.” Social Text 31 , no. 2 ( 2013 ): 19 – 48 . Thoburn Nicholas . Deleuze, Marx, and Politics . London : Routledge , 2003 . Van der Linden Marcel . “Conceptualising the World Working Class.” In Workers in the Informal Sector: Studies in Labour History, 1800–2000...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 116–130.
Published: 01 May 2019
..., dangerous and safe, humiliating and respectable, in a way that made the bus stand for all the former connotations and the car for all the latter. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 Mu'nis's attack on the human element of Egyptian cities dehumanized members of the lower classes (“who...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1995) 15 (2): 1–3.
Published: 01 August 1995
... in the economic crisis which
by state and management to accept and bargain with engulfed Britain in 1919. With a population of
workers and their representatives3 The problems nearly 5000 blacks in 19 19, the city of Liverpool was
that the underpaid and underfed working class had home to numerous...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (3): 465–482.
Published: 01 December 2016
... Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East • 36:3 • 2016
of boots — subject to rules of supply and demand, ments was often a euphemism for the Marwaris or
at a time when urban land and landed property the North Indian commercial classes in the city.10...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 51–56.
Published: 01 May 2020
... value of housing increasingly became replaced with exchange value within a post–World War I global economy that would transform the urban form in significant ways. These changes saw the emergence of construction lobbies and syndicates in the name of private investment in public lands across cities...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (3): 677–686.
Published: 01 December 2005
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muted in the UAE, with more families present But historical differences in the two envi-
Comparative and greater mixing across class lines.27 South ronments shape the social worlds of these expa-
Asians of lower class origins who are upwardly triates even more significantly...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (1): 214–237.
Published: 01 May 2012
..., family, and neighborhood the migration from provinces to the capital; 215
relations. The first section articulates the pro- and social polarization and the emergence of
cess in which the medieval city of Tehran was new social classes such as bureaucrats and the
transformed from...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1995) 15 (2): 36–46.
Published: 01 August 1995
... and outside the work place. nese working class and became the most dynamic
Furthermore, the history of the labor movement in and militant group of workers. Atbara’s railway men
the Sudan should be taken back beyond the World took the lead in forming trade unions and were able
War I1 period. 1...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (2): 263–276.
Published: 01 August 2015
... middle classes
often leads to a turning away from philosophical Bombay to Mumbai — The Maharashtrian City
religion to ritualistic religion based on temples, The Ganesh festival, or Ganaptai Ustav, was mobi-
pilgrimage, processions, and rituals, while public lized...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 131–142.
Published: 01 May 2019
... salient features of Riyadh is its carscape. Riyadh is one of the biggest cities in the world with no public transit (a bus and metro system is slated to open at some point in the future). 2 In 2000, Riyadh residents used cars in 98 percent of their trips across the city. There were approximately 5...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 173–180.
Published: 01 August 2003
.... Mazzawi cites Ahmad Zaki Dajani's assessment of
then shaking his head sadly.22 the social makeup of the city in support of his claim
The third group consists of Jaffa residents who re- about class-blindness:
mained entrenched in the city after the majority were The majority of Jaffa...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (3): 423–437.
Published: 01 December 2009
... at both Islamism and the immigrants palities by the end of the 1990s.
rather than assume that immigrants build their
own worlds autonomously. It is only through Islamism and the City
such a double focus that the seemingly opaque Civil society...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (3): 680–685.
Published: 01 December 2022
... in the Congo. First, while Dankwa describes a female world of discretion and indirection that eludes the visibility of LGBTQ+ activists, same-sex desiring men who live in popular neighborhoods in Congolese cities (the notion of “working-class” makes little sense here) are generally seen as all too...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 518–531.
Published: 01 December 2014
... a European-style “hippo-
while they document the kinds of understandings drome.”15 As elsewhere around the world, the car
of driving that circulated within the elite discourse became a toy for the “sporting class” and driving
of the press, they also reflect broader...
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