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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 (2021) 11 (2): 209–222.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Amanda Armstrong-Price; Julie Beth Napolin Abstract In this conversation, composed through written correspondence, Julie Beth Napolin and Amanda Armstrong-Price discuss aspects of Denise Riley’s “Am I That Name?” in light of contemporary feminist debates, including debates within black feminism...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 155–182.
Published: 01 October 2022
... Therapy—electric shock treatment became a technology of conversion and, more precisely, of sexual differentiation and spiritual cultivation. Tien’s is a disturbing example of how the regulation of sexuality and gender as private matters serves as resource and spur to secular demands to proprietize...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 5–8.
Published: 01 April 2020
... in conversation with sociology, theories of space, political economy, settler colonial studies, and anthropology, the essays in this special section explore theoretically and empirically how empire is constituted both within and outside other historical processes. We see the imperial longue durée...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 253–278.
Published: 01 October 2021
... : Charles and James White , 1830 . Kimmel Seth . Parables of Coercion: Conversion and Knowledge at the End of Islamic Spain . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2015 . Kohn Margaret . “ Afghānī on Empire, Islam, and Civilization .” Political Theory 37 , no. 3 ( 2009 ): 398...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (2): 140–176.
Published: 01 October 2018
..., whiskers, and "big cobalt blue glasses:'135 There is some indication that conjurors else wherefavoredsuchbluetintedglasses, and even incorporated them into their practice.136 In a conversation about religion, Douglas revealed himself as a freethinker, explaining, after the other men had revealed their own...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (2): 175–196.
Published: 01 October 2017
... in conversation with other scholars working on the relationships among secularity, sex, and religion. I take both religion and sexuality-as categories ofhuman experience and activity-to be precipitates ofmodernity. Alongside other theoristsofsecularism, I have arguedagainst the "subtractiontheory;' the idea...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 146–151.
Published: 01 April 2020
... of coloniality, in Familiar Stranger he is certainly conversant with them. Hall solicits an invitation to think through the relationship between Britain and the empire via the Caribbean in these same terms to unlock new or formerly less visible political imaginaries, configurations, and transitions...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 155–183.
Published: 01 October 2016
... or her life within its structure. Because intimate spiritual conversation within the choir was the heart of religious practice, enslaved Moravians had to perform that narrative, week after week, throughout their lives. The Lebenslaufwas the lasting record of that performance. Those who challenged...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 241–252.
Published: 01 October 2021
... that even discourses of emancipation can fall into the position of assuming that speech acts translate into legible expression across time and space. To flesh out how easily such slippages can take place, Spivak closely reads a casual conversation between Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault titled...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (2): 139–174.
Published: 01 October 2017
... This glimpse into Akron in the early 1970s stems from my continued interest in interdisciplinary conversations that revolve around questions of secularism. In contrast to approaches to religion that extend liturgical categories to encompass phenomena that do not announce themselves as religious, my approach...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 169–183.
Published: 01 October 2012
... with a common vocabulary and grammar. One would have to necessarily be in conversation with local communities of activists and consider their perceptions and style ofactivism before imagining the possibilities oftrans- 1 74 HISTORY ofthe PRESENT national solidarity work.For instance, given the parameters...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (2): 265–274.
Published: 01 October 2011
..., on the other? (In these remarks, the usage of the first person will more often than not, whether explicitly or implicitly, hesi tate between the singular ["I"] and the plural ["we Neither is premised on identity. What is at stake in this hesitation is the political definition ofa conversation among critics...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (2): 203–212.
Published: 01 October 2019
... Spivak spends a considerable amount of time engaged with the well-known conversation between Foucault and Gilles Deleuze that had been published under the title "Intellectuals and Power:'7 In the midst of analyzing the way in which Foucault (as well as Deleuze) deploy the subject in relation to power...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 April 2011
... expect to open a lively conversation among our contributors and readers about what is-and has been-at stake in their different and varied usages.So in this first issue Andrew Zimmerman explores the concept of the primitive as it was deployed in art and economics to secure the German colonial project...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (1): 87–103.
Published: 01 April 2016
.... Science is philosophically committed to progressivism and deterministic causality, despite in some cases admitting important roles.for contingency and constraint. 15 While there are several issues at play here, I first want to emphasize that the rapprochement or conversation between biology and history...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 223–240.
Published: 01 October 2021
... Shelly J. and Morgan Jennifer L. . “ ‘Whatcha Gonna Do?’ Revisiting ‘Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book’: A Conversation .” Women’s Studies Quarterly 35 , nos. 1–2 ( 2007 ): 299 – 309 . Spivak Gayatri . “ Can the Subaltern Speak? ” In Marxism...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 172–175.
Published: 01 April 2020
... historical knowledge might be created. ■ 1 I am inspired here by conversations with Stefania Pandolfo and by her “Divine Trial and Experimentum Mentis .” Works Cited Benjamin Walter . “ Theses on the Philosophy of History .” In Illuminations: Essays and Reflections , edited...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 105–116.
Published: 01 October 2016
... slavery and to make them central to a history ofthe present that pursues the unfinished project of equality" (p. 158). Moglen takes us through two slave narratives of the eighteenth-century Moravian Church, and while he care fully attends to the problems constituent of conversion (slave) narratives he...
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History of the Present (2015) 5 (2): 187–199.
Published: 01 October 2015
... question: "Or did you want to pres sure me with a deadline?" Arendt needed two years to complete a set of five articles on Adolf Eich mann's role inthe Holocaust. In a related scene we seeArendt in conversation withherfriend MaryMcCarthy-Arendt is refusing to leavethe cottageupstate and return...
