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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 184–199.
Published: 01 October 2012
... report on women'sinternational migrations argue, "is close to half.'1 The dramaticrise ofthese feminized migration flows is to a great extent due to the increasing demand for workers in the care and domestic industry, with Europe con stituting no exception. Nonetheless, the image of the immigrant...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 57–70.
Published: 01 April 2023
... Katherine McKittrick has called a mathematics of unwillingness, which, if deployed without care, reproduces rather than honors Black death. What interests me here is what such accounts take as the proper form of memory and memorialization. If mathematical accounting is insufficient, what more careful mode...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 27–30.
Published: 01 April 2023
... from imagining and shaping collectivities of care and survival. Dalits teach us that centering vulnerability is crucial to that survival. They invite us to rise to the level of the Dalit, usurping state tools and techniques to defiantly carve a path for everyone. The Dalit’s life has followed a path...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 71–86.
Published: 01 April 2023
... and immobility of labor. The COVID-19 pandemic brought these dynamics of patronage to the surface as the delays wrought by lockdowns and restrictions on travel heightened the importance of moral obligation and status, while also slowing down the possibilities of care. While both patrons and clients...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 208–215.
Published: 01 October 2016
... for these murders either. These circumstances have led me to revisit again what happened on the R ecovery and what was possible more generally (care, grief, regard) on board a slave ship. As our present makes all too apparent, there is no space outside the threat of death in which black mourning can or could take...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 20–26.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of cholera, a deadly disease that, for centuries, terrified populations around the world with images of easy contagion and agonizing deaths, and compelled regulatory measures at the highest levels; and the fiftieth anniversary of a very successful public health-care delivery system that has relentlessly...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (2): 142–165.
Published: 01 October 2019
... as merchants and lenders. Household solvency did not only depend on careful bookkeeping. Ex ogenous disruptions to the regular rhythms of economic life, such as bank runs or droughts, frequently forced borrowers into binds that could not be accounted away. At such points, wives often pursued remunerative...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 155–182.
Published: 01 October 2022
... will try to take care of everybody, including yourself” (“Wednesday” 21). 23 In Tien’s case, sexual freedom was defined in terms of economic liberalism and “equitable” definitions of marriage. As Scott points out, secular characterizations of freedom have neither liberated nor eradicated inequality...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (1): 1.
Published: 01 April 2021
... nation and empire and retelling those histories with careful research and theoretically informed analysis. Amy was a warm and intelligent mentor, colleague, and friend. We will miss her wise and incisive voice. ▪ — the editors ...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (2): 177–208.
Published: 01 October 2018
... evidence; they were also family photos and belated acts of caring for the dead. In the context of forced evacuation, destruction of personal belongings, and violent death, Figure 4. Chinese Indonesian Funeral, 1967, Yogyakarta. Reproduced with permission of Didi Kwartanada and family. 191 Fugitive Memories...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 155–183.
Published: 01 October 2016
... also acknowledging "what we cannot know: In pursuing this double aim, Hartman proposes that the strategy of narrative restraint can be complemented by listening with the most careful possible attention and respect to "black noise; to "the mutters and oaths and cries ofthe commod ity" that hint...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (2): 209–232.
Published: 01 October 2018
... that advocates for worker dignity while enforcing stringent subordination and often making a profit from this so-called benevolence.15 Under this system, owners are ex pected to demonstrate that they care for their company as well as its profits, and that they know what kind ofwork is being carried out...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 200–218.
Published: 01 October 2012
... the culturally familiar and compelling device of melodrama.3 Deconstructing thenarrativedevicesofanti-trafficking videos wouldseem best done in journals of cultural criticism, except for the fact that these rep resentations have serious consequences for law and policy, as well as for the public that cares about...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 April 2023
... nonmemorialization of a disease that decimated a large section of colonial India. For Banerjee, the missing data on this event provides the broader historical landscape for post/colonial and neoliberal histories of medical access and care. To historicize the loss of human population in the Global South, Banerjee...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 122–147.
Published: 01 October 2012
..., and shelter) , as well as equal access to what we might call a free, fully socialized system of universal education, healthcare, childcare, and care for the elderly. There was an exceptional degree of economic and material equality in this community as a result: nearly everyone lived in the same material...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 140–159.
Published: 01 October 2013
.... It began to establish itself as a clinical science as much as a social science after 1793, when the Consti tutional Assembly abolished the church. Two preoccupations of equal importance emerged: the care ofthe body and the care of the mind (conceived as the care ofthe soul under the ancien regime) .8...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (2): 203–212.
Published: 01 October 2019
... "power."Foucault admits to usingthe "metaphor of thepoint which progressively irradiates its surroundings: Such slips become the rule rather than the exception in less careful hands. And that radiating point, animating an effectively heliocentric discourse.fills the empty place of the agent...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 84–112.
Published: 01 April 2011
... herselfsees no contradiction whatsoever between the humane treatment of animals and their slaughter. For her, a humane death is a form ofkindness: "I am often asked how I can care about animals and be involved in their slaughter. People forget that nature can be harsh. Death at the slaughter plant is quicker...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (1): 57–98.
Published: 01 April 2013
...;' the reform ofdesignated groups through a detailed supervision in confined quarters such as prisons, asylums, and schools.2 After 1982, Foucault refined his argument on Hellenistic govern mentality, suggesting that it was made up ofa set ofascetic exercises through which the knowledge ofthe selfand the care...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 April 2013
.... The newly conceived repatriation interrogation room was the site where the process of a US-envisioned decolonization would be performed by abstracting a particular Korean POW into a vul nerable, universalized subject of care and governance for the international community. The POW controversy, I would argue...
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