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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 (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 (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 (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 (2024) 44 (1): 118–134.
Published: 01 May 2024
... by the Indian state after independence ( fig. 2 ). The linchpin of such efforts was the making of property from the sea to add value to what was seen as lying “idle” and “waste” while making Bombay a world-class city. As the governor of Bengal said in an address at the inauguration of the Mazgaon-Sewri...
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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 (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
.... They occupy parts of the road or pavement as they wish, forcing pedestrians to walk on the road. . . . Car owners must respect their “right” on where they placed their boxes.” 55 Mu'nis's attack on the human element of Egyptian cities dehumanized members of the lower classes (“who multiply like...
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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
... the governmental rhetoric of housing rights not merely as a response to working-class protest but also as new modes of protecting landlordism in a city suffering from a shortage of housing. A complex set of changes in how property was measured, taxed, produced, controlled, and distributed opens up new ways...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (3): 677–686.
Published: 01 December 2005
... for consideration important non- culturally an Western, are they yet and world, the Western in cities to The favorably Asia. very compare South cities in Gulf Asia, West called also context—the is Asian Gulf Gulf an in the still in were they working that was for gave people business stretches. five-year Al...
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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 (1984) 4 (2): 56–58.
Published: 01 August 1984
...”, Race and Class 16 , 2 (October). Negro World 1919 and 1921. Pelling , Henry ( 1958 ). The British Communist Party: A Historical Profile . London: Adam and Charles Black. The Seaman 1918–1922. Sivanandan , A. ( 1982 ). A Different Hunger: Writings on Black Resistance . London...
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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
... personal conversion and repentance. Joyriders often stole cars in middle-class neighborhoods and took them, surrounded by processions of sometimes several dozen cars, to the new subdivisions that had mushroomed around the city since the 1970s. By laying out new avenues, developers managed to sell...
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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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