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Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1215/1089201x-10148260

Rajbir Singh Judge

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Thinking with Wolves 与狼一起思考

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Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1215/1089201x-10148116

Parama Roy

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Politics and Poetics 政治与诗学

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Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1215/1089201x-10148356

S. Dankwa

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Nonhuman Governance 非人类的治理

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Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1215/1089201x-10148247

Megnaa Mehtta

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Uncanny Ecologies 不可思议的生态

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Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1215/1089201x-10148233

M. Fernando

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The Power of the “Knowing Women” “了解女性”的力量

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Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1215/1089201x-10148181

Aminata Cécile Mbaye

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Other than Human 非人类

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Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1215/1089201x-10148220

Rajbir Singh Judge, Parama Roy

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Cruel Husbandry 残酷的畜牧业

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Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1215/1089201x-10148129

Sandhya Shetty

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Love and Other Injustices 爱和其他不公平

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Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1215/1089201x-10148142

Naisargi N. Davé

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Against Abstractions: On Geopolitics, Humanness, Virus, and Death 反对抽象：论地缘政治、人性、病毒和死亡

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Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1215/1089201X-9698268

Sima Shakhsari

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