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History of the Present (2013) 3 (1): 57–98.
Published: 01 April 2013
...Indrani Chatterjee Monastic Governmentality, Colonial Misogyny, and Postcolonial Amnesia in South Asia Indrani Chatterjee Between the second and the eighteenth century CE, a form of political so ciety located in the household was that of an eminent or skilled teacher and his coresidential...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (1): 1–32.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Peo Hansen; Stefan Jonsson Eurafrica Incognita: The Colonial Origins ofthe European Union Peo Hansen and StefanJonsson 1. At the EU Africa Summit in Lisbon on December 8-9, 2007, the European Union and 53 African states adopted the Lisbon Declaration.The two par ties called for more EU-Africa...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (1): 80–105.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Alex Trimble Young Abstract The article explores contemporary debates regarding the representation of Indigenous resistance in the field of settler colonial studies by putting the work of Australian theorist Patrick Wolfe into conversation with the political allegories articulated in two...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 141–165.
Published: 01 October 2023
... are conventionally understood. Colleges and universities in the British colonies and what became the United States, including Harvard, William & Mary, and Dartmouth, were founded and funded with the intention that they would function as a vital technology through which the nation-state and white Christian...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 219–243.
Published: 01 October 2023
...Amir Reicher Abstract This article is about a particular kind of settler-colonial phenomenology. It is based on almost two years of anthropological fieldwork in the West Bank, during which the author lived in an illegal Jewish outpost settlement in the Judean Desert frontier. Despite being...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 108–137.
Published: 01 April 2024
.... While much of the existing research on surrogacy in Israel explains its ubiquity by centering cultural accounts of Jewishness, this article rethinks contemporary policies, practices, and markets of assisted reproduction from the vantage point of the “colonial episteme,” by unpacking the complex...
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (1): 49–74.
Published: 01 April 2014
...Nicola Perugini The Moral Economy ofSettler Colonialism: Israel and the "Evacuation Trauma" Nicola Perugini Trauma does not in itselflegitimate a political claim [ . . . ] . Trauma does not produce entitlement [ . . . ] . In a reactive relation to trauma, the trauma determines us unilaterally...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 9–27.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Manuela Boatcă; Anca Parvulescu Abstract This article analyzes the differences and overlaps between the dynamics of coloniality and inter-imperiality that have shaped Transylvania since the sixteenth century vis-à-vis neighboring European peripheries and shifting cores, zooming in on how...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 152–192.
Published: 01 October 2021
... enthusiasm in the European Enlightenment. Kant, in his articulation of enthusiasm as a form of reason, is the critical figure here. Whereas in English poetry enthusiasm was domesticated and contained, Bharati’s writings and their impact exemplify its very different trajectory in colonial India. In Part II...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 283–297.
Published: 01 October 2022
... and critique, looms large in the field as a figure of decolonial solidarities outside the epistemological confines of modern coloniality. This essay contends that the racial politics of Indian Ocean cosmopolitanism, itself an inheritance of the Afro-Asian hierarchies of mid-century Third Worldism, deserves...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 101–121.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Rosie Bsheer abstract This article takes up the occluded history of a particular category of migrant—the migrant scholar—in late Ottoman Mecca. It does so through the trajectory of the prominent Indian religious and anti-colonial scholar Muhammad Rahmatullah al-Kairanawi (1818–1891...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 4–33.
Published: 01 April 2022
... proposes that dominant models of binary gender are ineluctably racialized, created by the property regimes and systemic sexual violence of colonial modernity that emerged in the Atlantic World of the eighteenth century—a space defined by the structures of labor, race, sexuality, and capital accumulation...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 117–121.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., the authors draw attention to how it opens a space between past and present; metropole and colony; high and low cultural forms; Jamaica and Britain; history and memory; seeing and knowing. Works Cited Akala . Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire . London : Two Roads , 2018 . Hall...
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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 (2024) 14 (1): 156–173.
Published: 01 April 2024
... remarkable presence. By centering the details of Cecilia’s life, this article helps recast the threat of marronage in colonial Louisiana from simply one of male-led armed rebellion to one of reproduction, thorny kinship networks, and a potential maroon society. Cecilia’s arrest and incarceration occurred...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (2): 274–296.
Published: 01 October 2024
... African historiography have either dismissed it as an ideological text or lauded it as an ambitious attempt to call out French hegemony in its former colonies. This essay offers an alternative reading that underlines its social and political dimensions in the context of Moroccan nation-building...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 245–264.
Published: 01 October 2023
... of Palestinians during the war of 1948, this essay queries a long-standing anti- and post-colonial commitment to the political salience of counter-histories, of revisiting the archive. Other forms of (epistemological) power have emerged and they do not require the kinds of ideological closures (denial, official...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 5–30.
Published: 01 April 2011
... as "primitive" inspirations for their own painting and sculpture.The German expressionist painter Emil Nolde was unusual among these in that he, unlike Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin, and many other European enthusiasts for primitive art and life, involved himselfin an official capacity in the European colonial...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 60–79.
Published: 01 April 2022
... as neurosis,” the Caribbean poet and theorist Édouard Glissant posited a different kind of thought experiment than Weisman’s. “Would it be ridiculous,” he asked, “to consider our lived history as a steadily advancing neurosis?” ( 65–66 ). Often when we think of the slave trade, colonialism, and slavery, we...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 140–145.
Published: 01 April 2020
... generation of “colonials,” Hall describes himself as not-quite, not-yet black British, but he insists that you cannot understand the history of migration or the formation of black Britishness among subsequent generations without understanding colonialism and “its after-effects” (24). The constitution...
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