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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 67–83.
Published: 01 April 2020
... of deep contestation in which estate workers were organizing to reinvigorate the unfulfilled goals of anticolonial struggles. Reading this moment through the anxieties of European planters in the British archive, this article argues that these struggles deeply disturbed the localized racial labor order...
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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 (2023) 13 (1): 101–121.
Published: 01 April 2023
... crises. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Mecca Arabia Kairanawi Sawlatiyya counter-archives Pandemics transgress borders. Few, it seems, have learned this lesson. Even after COVID-19 reached all corners of the world, most states continued...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 257–280.
Published: 01 October 2020
.... Elsewhere, other scholars take up an issue Achille Mbembe detailed in his article “The Power of the Archive and its Limits.” Christine Chivallon, for instance, turns to contemporary ethnography of accounts of the descendants of slaves for “the trace,” what she considers a counter-archive “that has escaped...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 117–132.
Published: 01 October 2016
... on my own engagement with the archive and share my thoughts on what the "lineaments" of deliberately counter-historical narratives of slavery might look like or, put differently, what the production of histories accountable to the enslaved might entail.22 II For as long as it has been a subject...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 105–116.
Published: 01 October 2016
..., of a visceral comprehension ofthe 'hieroglyphics of the flesh'" (p. 195). IfMorgan turns to poetics and poetry, Smallwood, with a similar desire to disrupt traditionally accepted liberal historical narratives, turns to what she calls the counter-fact, "the fact the archive is seeking to ignore, marginalize...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 146–151.
Published: 01 April 2020
... . Fuentes Marisa . Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2016 . Gallagher Catherine , and Greenblatt Stephen . “ Counter-history and the Anecdote .” In Practicing New Historicism , 49 – 74 . Chicago...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 133–145.
Published: 01 October 2016
...David Kazanjian Copyright © 2016 University of Illinois Press 2016 Freedom's Surprise: Two Paths Through Slavery's Archives David Kazanjian Unfortunately I have not discovered a way of deranging the archive so that it might recall the content of a girl's life or reveal a truer picture, nor...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 146–154.
Published: 01 October 2016
...Anjali Arondekar Copyright © 2016 University of Illinois Press 2016 What More Remains: Slavery, Sexuality, South Asia AnjaliArondekar What more remains? At stake here is slavery's plangent entanglement with the idea of the archive. As emergent archival forms push against, or even record...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (2): 177–208.
Published: 01 October 2018
... monumental but ghostly signs of a past that refuses to remain buried. Two large black and white paintings titled PreservingLife, Terminating Life I and PreservingLife, Terminating Life II (2009) each juxtapose a photograph from Harsono's own family archive with a photograph from the exhumation album. Here...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 155–183.
Published: 01 October 2016
.... I will suggest some ofthe distinctive methodological challenges that these memoirs present. In that context, I will then offer a sample ofmy own recent efforts to produce a counter-history ofslavery as it was lived in one idiosyncratic eighteenth-century Pennsylvania community. By fusing archival...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 119–139.
Published: 01 October 2013
.... First, it denounces the political foreclosures that the modern state historically exacted in the name ofnation-building. It challenges state-sanc tioned modes ofhistorical memory by producing a counter-historiography that transgresses the limits imposed by official narratives of the nation. Second...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 28–45.
Published: 01 April 2020
... task, precisely because it extrapolates an imperial history from brief appearances in the archive. A counter-history that sees imperial space as warped space has to fill the gaps through informed resonances rather than causal links. Using the archival record not as the basis but as a starting point...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 241–252.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., Gayatri Spivak’s “Can the Subaltern Speak?” I then show how a departure from the language of realism allows these writers to illuminate histories that are populated by disappearing subjects and recorded in emptying archives. Reading through various scholarly responses to both Riley’s and Spivak’s...
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (1): 75–96.
Published: 01 April 2014
... space. Like the law whose proceedings they record, archives strive to assert an interpretive jurisdiction over the territorial expanse oftheir functioning. Yet, and again like the law, the archive's attempt to cohere incoherent worlds, to consolidate its epistemic authority within and across a given...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 184–207.
Published: 01 October 2016
... in the project of mounting counter-histories of slavery and enslavement, and we must navigate the ethics of historical representation.15 Doing so is at the core of the projects that engage us, and meeting its meth odological challenges both impede and propel the work. The archive is a site ofviolent...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (1): 122–137.
Published: 01 April 2017
... archival research, this would be a quick book to write. Two summers and done. Just an extended essay. That was in 2006! Nine years later the book was finally published. On one level, as I write in the preface, Freedom Time can be read as a com panion volume to my first book, The FrenchImperialNation-State...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 140–159.
Published: 01 October 2013
... theranks ofother sciences;' in an effetpervers, the use of history implied that experimentation and observation were insufficient for the scientific formation of medical theories.38 Perhaps to counter this progressive historicization of medicine (and the dictate of the history of medicine), doctors...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 209–235.
Published: 01 October 2020
... : Seuil , 1997 . Archives parlementaires , 1st ser., 1787–1799 , edited by Mavidal MM. J. and Laurent E. . Paris : Dupont/CNRS , 1867 – 1990 . Baker Keith . Condorcet, from Natural Philosophy to Social Mathematics . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1975...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 166–191.
Published: 01 October 2023
..., as the form connected to finance capital, which in turns connects “the long eighteenth and long twentieth centuries,” namely for him the time of the transatlantic slave trade and the twentieth-century financialization of the globe ( 22 ). As Baucom turns to the historical archive, and particularly to the 1781...
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