In this thesis I argue that the management of Muslim pilgrims and the Haj traffic in Bombay was the result of the localization of an international regime of regulation aimed at controlling Hajis as mobile threats to public health and imperial security. International scientists, doctors, and politicians problematized Hajis as diseased, dangerous and disorderly through discourse produced in print material and at international conferences taking place across the globe. Local, elite concerns over their own power, Bombay’s urban spatial order, and the city’s international trade shaped the way these larger global and imperial projects were implemented in Bombay. These findings point to the importance of local, place-based social, political and economic structures in the day-to-day governance of empire.

The central concerns of this project are the visual constructions of feminine and feminist subjectivities, significations and semiotics of the (brown) female body, and the pleasures and power of global visual culture. I consider the primary visual fields that seek to tell the story of Pakistani women, and Muslim woman more broadly, after September 11th, 2001. Specifically, I offer detailed case studies of three visual stories: international human rights sensation Mukhtar Mai; twice elected Prime Minister of Pakistan and first woman to lead a Muslim country Benazir Bhutto; and female terrorists/religious martyrs of the Red Mosque events in Islamabad, Pakistan. I locate the relevance of these visual stories on three axes − human rights, democratization and the war on terror − where each operates as an arm of, what Jasbir Paur (2007) calls, the U.S. hetero-normative nation. I also examine the structures of affect, pleasure and eroticism that are embedded in these popularized representations and narrations in the U.S. cultural context. Finally, I offer ways to reread the potential radical subjectivities or possibilities that these visual subjects and their political labor open up.

Texte remanié de: Habilitationsschrift--Geschichtswissenschaftliche Fakultät--Tübingen--Eberhard-Karls-Universität, 2000. / Bibliogr. p. 697-746. Index.

Texte remanié de: Ph. D.--Hamilton (Ont.)--McMaster University, 1988. Titre de soutenance : Priscian's De laude Anastasii imperatoris. / Contient le texte original latin suivi de sa trad. anglaise, introd. et comment. en anglais. Bibliogr. p. 215-236.

Th. D.--Madrid--Facultad de filología de la Universidad complutense, 1990. Titre de soutenance : La vida monástica en el "Pratum spirituale" de Juan Mosco. / Bibliogr. p. 457-476. Index.

Texte remanié de: Dissertation--Fakultät für Geschichtswissenschaft--Bochum--Ruhr-Universität, 2001. / 2002 d'après le catalogue en ligne de l'éditeur. Bibliogr. p. 296-314.

Texte remanié de: Dissertation--Fachbereich II Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft--Trier--Universität, 2003. / Bibliogr. p. 274-296.

Texte remanié de: Diss.--Philosophische Universität--München--Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Wintersemester 1993/94. / Bibliogr. p. 586-624. Index.

Habilitation à diriger des recherches--Histoire--Montpellier, 2001. / Notes bibliogr. Glossaire. Index.

Texte remanié de: Diss.--Fachbereich 16/Geschichtswissenschaft--Mainz--Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, 1999. / Bibliogr. p. 551-565. Index.