Dear colleagues - I wanted to share a special issue Technologies of War<https://read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/issue/45/3>, 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<https://read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/article/45/3/411/402223/Technology-and-CritiqueGenealogies-of-Digital-War> Madiha Tahir & Adrien Zakar (Counter)-Mapping US Empire in Africa: Scattered Hegemonies, Feminist Methodologies, and Situated Knowledge <https://read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/article/45/3/421/402206/Counter-Mapping-US-Empire-in-AfricaScattered> Samar Al-Bulushi Gimmicks of War<https://read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/article/45/3/429/402209/Gimmicks-of-War> Adrien Zakar Drone Empires: Ethnic Conflict, Techno-Spectacle, and Imperial Machinations Across Eurasia and Africa<https://read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/article/45/3/441/402219/Drone-EmpiresEthnic-Conflict-Techno-Spectacle-and> Matthew Ghazarian Distributed Empire: A Technics of Drone War <https://read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/article/45/3/449/402207/Distributed-Empire-A-Technics-of-Drone-War> Madiha Tahir iPhones as Compromised Talisman: Data Control and the “Imperial In-Between” in Northwest China<https://read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/article/45/3/459/402204/iPhones-as-Compromised-Talisman-Data-Control-and> Darren Byler Big Data Before the Age of Big Data: The 1917 Anglo-Egyptian “Dress Rehearsal” of the Nazi Census<https://read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/article/45/3/465/402222/Big-Data-Before-the-Age-of-Big-Data-The-1917-Anglo> Karim Malak Pivots<https://read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/article/45/3/475/402214/Pivots> Sareeta Amrute Warmly Madiha ___ M. Tahir, Ph.D. Assistant Professor | American Studies Faculty Affiliate: Ethnicity, Race & Migration Yale University
Thank you so much for letting us know about this special issue! All best, Johannah On Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 12:47 PM Tahir, Madiha via Members < members@lists.sigcis.org> wrote:
Dear colleagues -
I wanted to share a special issue *Technologies of War <https://read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/issue/45/3>*, 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 <https://read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/article/45/3/411/402223/Technology-and-CritiqueGenealogies-of-Digital-War>* Madiha Tahir & Adrien Zakar
*(Counter)-Mapping US Empire in Africa: Scattered Hegemonies, Feminist Methodologies, and Situated Knowledge <https://read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/article/45/3/421/402206/Counter-Mapping-US-Empire-in-AfricaScattered>* Samar Al-Bulushi
*Gimmicks of War <https://read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/article/45/3/429/402209/Gimmicks-of-War>* Adrien Zakar
*Drone Empires: Ethnic Conflict, Techno-Spectacle, and Imperial Machinations Across Eurasia and Africa <https://read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/article/45/3/441/402219/Drone-EmpiresEthnic-Conflict-Techno-Spectacle-and>* Matthew Ghazarian
*Distributed Empire: A Technics of Drone War <https://read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/article/45/3/449/402207/Distributed-Empire-A-Technics-of-Drone-War>* Madiha Tahir
*iPhones as Compromised Talisman: Data Control and the “Imperial In-Between” in Northwest China <https://read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/article/45/3/459/402204/iPhones-as-Compromised-Talisman-Data-Control-and>* Darren Byler
*Big Data Before the Age of Big Data: The 1917 Anglo-Egyptian “Dress Rehearsal” of the Nazi Census <https://read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/article/45/3/465/402222/Big-Data-Before-the-Age-of-Big-Data-The-1917-Anglo>* Karim Malak
*Pivots <https://read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/article/45/3/475/402214/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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