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History of the Present (2018) 8 (1): 29–56.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Shai Joshua Lavi Our Food is Our Bond: A History of Jewish and Muslim Animal Slaughter and Post-Christian Social Science ShaiJoshua Lavi Introduction According to a generally accepted, albeit at times controversial etymol­ ogy, the terms law and legality both originate from the Latin verb legere...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 223–240.
Published: 01 October 2021
...-essentialist feminist thinkers, reveals the distinctiveness, force, and capaciousness of her project, which lay in her attention to historicity, form, language, and affect. It is precisely the poetics of Riley’s feminist thought that sustain the critical orientation that must animate feminism’s utopian desires...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 257–280.
Published: 01 October 2020
... displays (as at the International Museum of Slavery at Liverpool); the next section profiles online resources about slave revolt, including Vincent Brown’s animated map of slave insurrections in Jamaica and repositories, archives, and databases of newspaper advertisements for runaways, arguing...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 219–243.
Published: 01 October 2023
... of the flow that one is able to understand what drives the settler-colonial practices of this new generation of postideological settlers. More than a worldview, the flow is an existential force that animates these people’s settler-colonial way of being in the world. In disclosing the flow , this article also...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (2): 245–273.
Published: 01 October 2024
... Propagandhi’s focus on hypocrisy in punk communities through a historical framework, their perception of the early modern European epistemological origins of animal abuse, and their performance of a social history that magnifies the experiences of marginalized peoples. Here, Propagandhi fits with iconic bands...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 84–112.
Published: 01 April 2011
... she found it troubling to participate in any way whatsoever in the suffering of animals. She is not alone. A recent New York Times article reported on the trend in Europe, and more recently in the United States, to kill chickens by gassing them rather than the traditional method ofslitting...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (1): 96–121.
Published: 01 April 2017
.... Naturalist Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon pro­ posed the unity ofall nutritive substances. All matter, he thought, originated at the beginning oftime: matter was continually passing fromone body to the 98 HISTORY ofthe PRESENT next, from plants to animals to humans and back again. 5 As historian Emma...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 271–282.
Published: 01 October 2022
... and put this food supply in close proximity to urban dwellers. Wildlife markets, which serve elite tastes and desires, also put these populations in the vicinity of exotic animals smuggled from across the globe. These densely populated urban areas, where humans, domesticated livestock, migrating waterfowl...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 212–219.
Published: 01 October 2013
... on dog" or "whatever the case may be:'12 214 HISTORY ofthe PRESENT The law says: children cannot consent to sex with adults.13 The Western philosophical tradition says: nonhuman animals cannot consent to sex with humananimals. ToreturnagaintoAristotle, "man aloneamong the animals" has the capacity...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (2): 233–236.
Published: 01 October 2019
... of animal ethics of interest to academics from the humanities and the sciences, as wel l a s profess ionals worki ng i n the field of a n i ma l protection. The Journal is publ ished by the University of Illinois Press in partners h i p with the Ferrater Mora Oxford Centre for A n i m a l Ethics. The a i m...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 122–128.
Published: 01 April 2020
... of an animal, which obeys and assists a witch or other person” according to the OED . 2 Indeed, ghosts and shadows abound in Familiar Stranger , materialized in a sentence like “The present carries the spectres of the past hiding in it” (24) or in the description of the damaging effects that the “psychic...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 April 2019
... the Latin saeculum, a word whose complex and vital valences the religious/secular binary sometimes obscures. In Latin, especially in the works of Lucretius, saeculum refers to a race, a breed, a generation, of both animals and humans.18 By transference, like the Greekgenea, it comes to mean the ordinary...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 275–283.
Published: 01 October 2023
... disciplinary policing that, however, presents itself as a courageous transgression of prevailing disciplinary norms in the name of some higher truth. Sweet is not alone among historians, or more broadly humanities scholars, in enacting the spectacle of transgression. A similar sensibility animates...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 April 2012
... animal, natural existence, the planet's looming ecological catastrophe, Chakrabarty indicates, has made that distinction void. Human history, human culture, and human society have now come to possess a truly geological force, a capacity not only to shape the local environments offorests, river systems...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (1): i–iv.
Published: 01 April 2018
... History ofthe Present LAW AT THE INTERSECTION OF THEORY AND HISTORY Special Issue edited by Marianne Constable and Sylvia Schafer 1 Law ofNations and the "Conflict ofthe Faculties" Martti Koskenniemi 4 Our Food is Our Bond: A History ofJewish and Muslim Animal Slaughter and Post-Christian Social Science...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 105–116.
Published: 01 October 2016
... of representation-its limits, its possibilities, its failures-animates this special issue. It also serves to highlight the issue's goal: to portray the fraught relation between slavery, violence, evidence, archive, and liberated futures as disentangled from the constraints and constructions of racially denigrating...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (1): 53–79.
Published: 01 April 2021
... there are individual differences in those brain systems that contribute to vulnerability.” In fact, individual variation is not the main source of doubt here. The first source is the immense overstatement of the so-called findings: research conducted almost entirely on two or three animals in laboratory cages does...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 28–45.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., in addition to a number of objects and live animals, the Viennese public was presented with two Aimoré people kidnapped by the previously mentioned Austrian expedition to Brazil (“Die Botocuden-Indier in Wien”). Named João and Francesca by their captors, the pair lived and worked in the newly opened court...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 31–39.
Published: 01 April 2023
... very different narrations of the same crisis-event depending on the “epistemic object” in question. Tracking the microbial agent (SARS-CoV2) privileged biological (a mutating virus) and ecological (animal origins) plotlines, while the disease entity (COVID-19) highlighted medical and public health ones...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 1–3.
Published: 01 April 2022
... the two. As Norman O. Brown put it in 1959, “the psychoanalytical approach to history is pressed upon the historian by one question: Why does man, alone of all animals, have a history? . . . the historical process is sustained by man’s desire to become other than what he is. And man’s desire to become...