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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 20–49.
Published: 01 April 2024
... Federici respectively. It demonstrates that since its inception, racial capitalism has depended on processes of racialized (re)productive accumulation that are ongoing but not yet fully theorized. At the center of the essay is a close reading of Hortense Spillers’s 1987 contribution “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 84–100.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Serawit B. Debele Abstract Focusing on Ethiopia, an empire off-center, this article argues against dominant narratives that link the regulation of sexual practices to colonial (Western) imperial relations. Within this context, the paper investigates struggles over the past by contrasting two...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (1): 23–52.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., it is an internal communication mechanism offering guidance and recommendations from the nationally headquartered civil-service center to regional and local civil-service branches (Berriane 68). These circulars came between 2009 and 2011 as a consequence of the highly publicized protest movement emerging...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 156–173.
Published: 01 April 2024
... in the retellings of this period, the historiography, some of which I briefly address here. Following a Black feminist method of attention, my close readings center Cecilia and her assertions of her pregnancy and argue for the ways in which her voice is present in the text. The details of her records suggest...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 April 2024
.... This is because in our view it is only when we center reproduction in slavery that it becomes possible to come to a full account of reproductive racial capitalism at both its inception and as it unfurls across time. Reproductive exploitation fueled Atlantic slavery. And, as enslaved women and men pushed back...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 108–137.
Published: 01 April 2024
... for centuries, culminating in the Holocaust and the extermination of six million Jewish lives, in this way transforming individual procreation into a matter of collective survival (see, for instance, Kahn ; Ivry ; Teman ). However, a recent bulletin on fertility trends by the Taub Center for Social Policy...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 174–191.
Published: 01 April 2024
...-like” atmosphere, its “oriental carpets” and “spiral staircase,” the “flowery curtains and houseplants,” the garden, and the sitting room in the townhouse just off Fifth Avenue at Ninety Second Street. There, the fifty-eight-year-old Maternity Center Association, historically an educational...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 5–8.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Miloš Jovanović; Giulia Carabelli Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 The goal of this special section is to outline new, off-center perspectives on empire and imperial formations. We highlight moments and places in which the historical contours of empire become thinner...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 20–26.
Published: 01 April 2023
.... For decades, with far less funding than that of the Texas Medical Center across the street from my university campus, the ICDDRB and GK have quietly targeted and successfully tackled the illnesses that plague the impoverished populations of Bangladesh and other countries. The ICDDRB’s long history of research...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 40–44.
Published: 01 April 2023
... dynamics of precarity and resilience between urban centers and rural locales are at the center of the way many countries throughout the world, including the United States, have experienced the pandemic. Though a different population, we should think about the wealthy elite of New York City fleeing...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 27–30.
Published: 01 April 2023
... . “ We Spoke to a Cremator at the Center of India’s COVID Hell .” Vice World News , August 27 , 2021 . https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3dggy/we-spoke-to-a-cremator-at-the-center-of-indias-covid-hell . Singh Karan Deep . “ One Son’s 48-Hour Fight to Save His Parents .” New York Times...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 123–126.
Published: 01 April 2023
... . “ Centre Launches Helpline, Subsistence Allowance to Help Transgenders Fight Covid .” Times of India , May 24 , 2021 . https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/centre-launches-helpline-subsistence-allowance-to-help-transgenders-fight-covid/articleshow/82910139.cms . Ramasubramanian Sowmya...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 127–132.
Published: 01 April 2023
.../ . Maqbool Umer . “ How the Centre Effected Changes in J and K Laws Through Executive Orders .” Wire (blog), November 2 , 2020 . https://thewire.in/law/centre-jammu-and-kashmir-laws-executive-order . Mayaram Shail . “ Why Flinging the Term ‘Corona Jihad’ at the Tablighi Jamaat Makes...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 9–27.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., yet in the process glossed over East Central Europe as a structural link between world regions even before the European colonial expansion. Collectively, these perspectives align with this special issue’s project to off-center the history of comparative empires. 4 On the colonial/imperial...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 245–264.
Published: 01 October 2023
... into an authorized global one has long been a material part of the struggle for liberation itself. And at the center of that narrative is the exile of 1948, which demands “resolution” ( Said, “Permission” ). By rewriting the past, by reconstructing, if only in fragments, that which has been lost, destroyed, or made...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 140–145.
Published: 01 April 2020
... in Notting Hill, a center of Afro-Caribbean settlement and the site of white pogroms against black residents that same year (258–60). 1 Soho—“central, edgy and bohemian” and a “crossroads of a variety of social and political currents”—became the center of gravity in a life increasingly consumed...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 28–45.
Published: 01 April 2020
.... ■ I am grateful for the advice of fellow participants in the “Empire Off-Center” conference in Göttingen, and in particular Gruia Bădescu for his comments as discussant. I am likewise in debt to Mátyás Mervay and Xu Yangqing for their kind guidance through Tianjin and Sonja Moghaddari for her thoughts...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 67–83.
Published: 01 April 2020
... . Roberts Neil . Freedom as Marronage . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2015 . Rodney Walter . “ Plantation Society in Guyana .” Review (Fernand Braudel Center) 4 , no. 4 ( 1981 ): 643 – 66 . Stoler Ann Laura . Capitalism and Confrontation in Sumatra’s Plantation...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 31–39.
Published: 01 April 2023
... broadens beyond the biomedical solution to wider health-care practices and to health as global commons. At center stage of these practices was the neem plant ( Azardirachta indica L.). Beyond cooling smallpox pustules, neem is widely used for its spermicidal and antidesertification properties across...
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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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