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History of the Present (2012) 2 (1): 78–85.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Ravi Ahuja Copyright © 2012 University of Illinois Press 2012 Capital at Sea, Shaitan Below Decks? A Note on Global Narratives, Narrow Spaces, and the Limits of Experience RaviAhuja "Every man's nose was inches away from a solid barrier: either the ceiling or an arse; "squirming like...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Capital</span> at Sea, Shaitan Below Decks? A Note on Global Narratives, Narrow Spaces, and the Limits of Experience
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 46–66.
Published: 01 April 2020
... influence of real estate after black emancipation. Real estate enabled post-slavery black dispossession and also facilitated the continuation of the United States as a settler empire. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 slavery empire capital real estate settler colonialism...
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Becoming “Welfare Island”: Reproductive Labor and Racial Capitalism in Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico
History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 50–80.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Laura Briggs Abstract From the era of enslavement to contemporary structures of debt, governing entities and capital have denied state support to Puerto Ricans, demanding instead that payments flow from the archipelago first to Spain and then to the United States. While the US welfare state...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 20–49.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Alys Eve Weinbaum Abstract This article theorizes the reproductive dimensions of racial capitalism. It begins by bringing into conversation Black Marxist theories of racial capitalism and Marxist feminist theories of social and biological reproduction proffered by Cedric Robinson and Silvia...
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (2): 115–142.
Published: 01 October 2014
... of Stalinism.This third coming of the German Historikerstreit is related to the precariousness ofglobal capitalism, and perhaps the elite de sire to discredit all political ideologies that threaten the primacy of private propertyand free markets. This anti-communist political project requires the production ofa...
View articletitled, A Tale of “Two Totalitarianisms”: The Crisis of <span class="search-highlight">Capitalism</span> and the Historical Memory of Communism
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 271–282.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Elizabeth Heath Abstract This intervention offers a critique of the New Histories of Capitalism (NHC) and its project to write the history of capitalism without engaging Marx’s theorization of capitalism and crisis. It develops this critique by historicizing the food and agricultural crises...
View articletitled, Marx, Frankenchickens, and the Logic of <span class="search-highlight">Capitalism</span>: Rethinking Spellbound Histories in a Time of Crisis
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Jennifer L. Morgan; Alys Eve Weinbaum Abstract This essay introduces the special issue with a critique of Cedric Robinson’s heuristic, “racial capitalism,” and a discussion of our titular intervention: “reproductive racial capitalism.” The essay is necessarily grounded in the reproductive crisis...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 4–33.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Elizabeth Maddock Dillon Abstract This article argues that Freud’s account of binary sexual difference, articulated in the Oedipus complex, is conditioned by a history of racial capitalism. Turning to the foundational work of Hortense Spillers on gender and Atlantic race slavery, this article...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 108–137.
Published: 01 April 2024
... “intimacies” and reproductive afterlives of settler colonialism and racial capitalism in Israel/Palestine. The article argues that surrogacy operates both as a demographic frontier in the consolidation of a Jewish state in Israel/Palestine and as a commodity frontier for the accumulation of capital...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 156–173.
Published: 01 April 2024
...S. J. Zhang Abstract This article explores how, in 1784 New Orleans, Cecilia Conway—a recaptured maroon woman—asserted that she was pregnant and thereby leveraged the power of her reproductive labor. Her claims about her body briefly slowed down the system of capital punishment activated...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 28–45.
Published: 01 April 2020
... from Field Marshal Gideon Ernst von Laudon’s spoils of war on the outskirts of Vienna. Utilizing Anthony Vidler’s concept of “warped space,” the article explores Laudon’s garden as an exemplary form of imperial space. It then proceeds to argue that imperial capitalism continued to produce warped spaces...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 60–79.
Published: 01 April 2022
.... The notion of history that his essay foregrounded, however, can itself be historicized as a fantasy of modernity, one Édouard Glissant described as “History [with a capital H ].” Using Glissant’s psychoanalytically inflected insights as a starting point, this article argues that our dominant modes...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 166–191.
Published: 01 October 2023
... the notion of progress in history, the article posits the shared grounds for a philosophy of history that disrupts the singular future of speculation-driven capitalism with alternative forms of speculative imagination. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 174–191.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Rickie Solinger Abstract This autobiographical essay sets up a white middle-class young woman’s emergence as a rights-bearing, choice-making exemplar of sexual freedom and as a holder of intimate racial capital in the 1970s. At the same time, elites and various professional authorities were re...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 81–107.
Published: 01 April 2024
... these arguments, the article intervenes into current conversations in the feminist historiography of slavery, capitalism, and reproduction and contributes to emerging work on same-sex sexual relations in the context of enslavement. It closes with a short reflection on the stakes of Luke’s story for historiography...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 138–155.
Published: 01 April 2024
... definitions of labor and value and hint at how Black women theorized a world beyond racial capitalism. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 reproduction injury value slavery emancipation In June of 1773 a thirty-five-year-old woman named...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 April 2016
...-only further secure its bonds? As an institution central to "the making ofAmerican capitalism" as a recent book has it, does slavery transcendthe immediatecircumstancesofcaptivity, ofphysical domination and confinement? And ifso, did the implementation of abolition dismantle slavery's vast fortune...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 130–147.
Published: 01 April 2011
...Ӧzlem Aslan; Zeynep Gambetti Copyright © 2011 University of Illinois Press 2011 Provincializing Fraser's History: Feminism and Neoliberalism Revisited {JzlemAslan and Zeynep Gambetti In "Feminism, Capitalism and the Cunning ofHistory;' recently published in the NewLeftReview, Nancy Fraser...
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (2): 143–170.
Published: 01 October 2014
... increased power over, the processes by which people and things move through space and time. The modern usage ofthe flows metaphor took shape within linked nine teenth-century transformations in capitalism and social thought.It van quished a rival concept ofmotion and change,"work"-meaning both labor...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 5–30.
Published: 01 April 2011
... capitalism, anthropo logical knowledge, and racial representation.The art that Nolde produced in New Guinea, like the larger German colonial project in which he participated, produced the primitive as a space ofmodern aesthetic and economic produc tion by positing this domain, paradoxically...
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