Dear colleagues - 

I wanted to share a special issue Technologies of War, for CSSAME (Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East) that may be of interest to you. The issue, co-edited by Adrien Zakar and me, examines the longer genealogies of digital war. 

Here is the full ToC for Technologies of War | Vol 45 Issue 3:

Introduction: Technology and Critique: Genealogies of Digital War

Madiha Tahir & Adrien Zakar

(Counter)-Mapping US Empire in Africa: Scattered Hegemonies, Feminist Methodologies, and Situated Knowledge 

Samar Al-Bulushi

Gimmicks of War

Adrien Zakar

Drone Empires: Ethnic Conflict, Techno-Spectacle, and Imperial Machinations Across Eurasia and Africa
Matthew Ghazarian

Distributed Empire: A Technics of Drone War 

Madiha Tahir

iPhones as Compromised Talisman: Data Control and the “Imperial In-Between” in Northwest China

Darren Byler

Big Data Before the Age of Big Data: The 1917 Anglo-Egyptian “Dress Rehearsal” of the Nazi Census
Karim Malak

Pivots

Sareeta Amrute

Warmly

Madiha 

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M. Tahir, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor | American Studies

Faculty Affiliate: Ethnicity, Race & Migration

Yale University

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