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Encircling Empire: Report #21—Search and Distort Missions

Maximilian Forte wrote 1 week ago: Encircling Empire Reports is a selection of essays, blog posts, and news reports covering a given ti … more →

Tags: ENCIRCLING EMPIRE, CIA, Venezuela, Libya, AFRICOM, AIC, American Islamic Congress, Ania Loomba, arturo escobar

Encircling Empire: Report #21—Search and Distort Missions3 comments

Maximilian Forte wrote 1 week ago: Encircling Empire Reports is a selection of essays, blog posts, and news reports covering a given ti … more →

Tags: ENCIRCLING EMPIRE, AFRICOM, AIC, American Islamic Congress, Ania Loomba, arturo escobar, Bolivia, Boston, Chandra Talpade Mohanty

Tightrope Walking in the Intellectual Circus: The Politics of Piety: the Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (2005) by Saba Mahmood

sitareist wrote 1 month ago: A. INTRODUCTION Saba Mahmood explores the complex ways in which the discourses of embodiment, piety, … more →

Tags: Reflection, Anthropology, Philosophy, Review, Theory, Women's and Gender Studies, Foucault, "Islamic Feminism", Modernity

summary of some of talal asad's arguments

sohaib wrote 5 months ago: As early as 1993, [Talal] Asad charted the genealogy of the English term ‘religion’, poi … more →

Tags: South Asia Research, Secularism, Religion, Science, NILE green, state, mary searle-chatterjee

Names, Property, and Other Things Worth Arguing About

JCB wrote 9 months ago: The school’s initials at the campus’s main entrance//Wikipedia The New York Times today … more →

Tags: quick comment, Christianity, Catholicism, Latin America, Power Relations, religion and education

Secularity: A Sketch2 comments

christopher wrote 11 months ago: The other day, I used the word ‘secularity’ in a way that I believe followed the ways th … more →

Tags: Politics, religion/church, Secularity, Charles Taylor

Becoming Muslim: Self and God in Egypt2 comments

MPeterson wrote 11 months ago: Anthropologists have written of people as Muslim because they grow up enculturated as believers, but … more →

Tags: Anthropology, Islam, Charles Hirschkind, Samuli Schielke, saba mahmood, Amira Mittermaier, jinn

Evropa kundër Islamit: Islami në Evropë II1 comment

gentibasha wrote 1 year ago: Talal Asad (vazhdon) II   A është “feja” përbërëse (integral) e këtyre forcave përçarëse? Vësht … more →

Tags: Analize, Featured, SHKRIME, Antropologji, Evropa, Islami ne Evrope

Evropa kundër Islamit: Islami në Evropë I5 comments

gentibasha wrote 1 year ago: Talal Asad* I Është banal, por gjithsesi i rëndësishëm, fakti se në demokracitë liberale mjetet e ko … more →

Tags: Analize, Featured, SHKRIME, Antropologji, Islamofobia, Islami ne Evrope

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biqbal wrote 1 year ago: prospective MA thesis abstract. obviously subject to revision, &etc. working to complete a draft … more →

Tags: narcissism past and present, Discourses, academese, Allegory, temporality, de Man, Benjamin, Symbol

we apologise for the inconvenience. 1 comment

chaosbogey wrote 1 year ago: In one week, a fantastic essay will be published. In two, I turn 25. For all my abundant solipsism, … more →

Tags: book, politics/history, Major Arcana, Slut, Beginnings, Politics, Camus, Palestine, Algeria

The Wish for 9/11: Retrospective Thoughts, Ten Years On8 comments

C. Ryan Knight wrote 1 year ago: As though refuting Francis Fukuyama’s claim that the “end of history” has arrived in his essay “L’Es … more →

Tags: Archives, - C. Ryan, Jean Baudrillard, 9/11, elaine scarry, Giorgio Agamben, Amnesty International, Amnesty International Global Ethics Series, state of exception

On Suicide Bombing: Asad on Suicidal Civilization

Tim McGee wrote 1 year ago: In short, in Christian civilization, the gift of life for humanity is possible only through a suicid … more →

Tags: utopia, ethics, Refugees, Violence, Politics, death, Atonement, On Suicide Bombing, Clash of Civilizations?

Haggis, Jane. "White Women and Colonialism: Towards a Non-Recuperative History." 1 comment

timrdoc wrote 2 years ago: Haggis opens the essay by deeply exploring the historiographical and ethical questions confronting a … more →

Tags: Theories of History, WGS 652 - Fems and Postcolonial Theory, (Post)(de)Colonial Theory, Imperialism, Globalization, Transnationalism, Historiography, Methodology, 19th Century

On the beach at Jumeira4 comments

Don Stoll wrote 2 years ago: … more →

Tags: Africa, Tanzania, Development 2, Volunteering, poverty, Al Khalifa Tower, Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian Protests, islamic etiquette

Mandates by (for) the People4 comments

Henry M. Schliff wrote 2 years ago: Courtesy of eureferendum.blogspot.com With the votes counted, familiar refrains are reverberating ac … more →

Tags: Washington, democracy, Plato, citizens united

Valuable lessons

Eoin O'Mahony wrote 2 years ago: In the last two weeks there have been some valuable lessons about writing learned around this manor. … more →

Tags: Posts, Workplace, Headspace, Public Sphere, Reading, Religion, thesis, Geography, PhD

Death to the Multi-Cultural Society?

Henry M. Schliff wrote 2 years ago: Begrudgingly courtesy of creepingsharia.wordpress.com The AFP reported this week that multi-cultural … more →

Tags: Islam & The West, sharia law, Islam, Religion & Society, Angela Merkel, Sharron Angle, Tea Party

thinking through urban debris: violence, terror and the state

nandita wrote 2 years ago: [A different version of this paper was presented by anirban and me at the Contesting Development: Id … more →

Tags: ArchiTextures, Capitalism 2, death/violence, politics (im)proper, spaces, Spectacle, totalit/authorit/arianism, Walking in the City, Ahmedabad


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