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Fixers in Motion. A Conversation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 June 2011

Craig Jeffrey ,
Christine Philliou ,
Douglas Rogers  and
Andrew Shryock
Craig Jeffrey
Affiliation:
School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University
Christine Philliou
Affiliation:
Department of History, Columbia University
Douglas Rogers
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Andrew Shryock*
Affiliation:
Editor, CSSH
*
[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
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Since taking the editorial helm of CSSH in 2006, I have watched several intellectual trends shift and gather momentum. Postsocialist and postcolonial studies are merging into a more generalized interest in the politics of empire. Critical impulses once associated with the “post” approaches have found their way into studies of secularism, conversion, translation, and state effects. Increasingly, these topics are analyzed as transregional processes that operate across religious and political logics. In 2009, our first CSSH Conversation dealt with matters of tolerance and conversion in the Ottoman Empire, and in 2010 we filled an entire issue with essays on secularism (52-3). In each case, the ground we explored was contested, but themes of governmentality and moral transformation were central, and the terms of debate were broadly shared.

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CSSH Discussion
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 53 , Issue 3 , July 2011 , pp. 692 - 707
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 2011

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