...Kabir Tambar Copyright © 2013 University of Illinois Press 2013 Historical Critique and Political Voice after the Ottoman Empire Kabir Tambar In a famous 1882 lecture at the Sorbonne, Ernest Renan highlighted a certain obligation to forget, even a necessity for historical error...

... influence of real estate after black emancipation. Real estate enabled post-slavery black dispossession and also facilitated the continuation of the United States as a settler empire. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 slavery empire capital real estate settler colonialism...

...Miloš Jovanović Abstract This article traces how processes of physical displacement (and its corollary, re-emplacement) have emerged during multiple periods and in distant locales associated with the history and legacy of the Habsburg Empire. It focuses on an eighteenth-century Turkish garden made...

...Monica Kim Copyright © 2013 University of Illinois Press 2013 Empire's Babel: US Military Interrogation Rooms ofthe Korean War Monica Kim The US military interrogation room has often been the site ofcontroversy, but it has seldom been the object of scrutiny. Faced with photos from Abu Ghraib...

...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...

... understood imperialism to be historically. This essay looks at two understandings of imperialism, one coming out of Marxist theory and another out of a Foucauldian understanding of power as developed by Hardt and Negri in their book Empire (2000), and then goes on to show that both are helpful, though...

..., for a human life. The article reveals this shift through a set of historical readings across four venues in the period 1980–1993: scientific research, diagnostic protocols, judicial practice, and political rhetoric. More than an empirical advance, this shift in addiction discourse reflects a novel...

... to scholarship that analyzes reproductive racial slavery’s afterlife, particularly how slavery’s matrilineal principle shaped the meaning of Black motherhood in bondage and in freedom. Exploring violent confrontations with empire in moments of profound change, the stories of Catharina and Ruth each offer new...

...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...

..., the newly independent states that resulted from the administrative decolonization of European empires in Asia and Africa formed the object of what would later become postcolonial studies. This conceptualization has tended to neglect an array of world regions that—for very different reasons—did...

..., one that was now 89 On Becoming Less ofthe World governable by men (as opposed to God or Nature or Empire) . Responsibility for governing this separate zone ofpolitical life fell to the government ofthe world; and internationalism became a vision ofworld order.11 Europe was not the only site...

... and communities that shaped and mediated a difficult journey across multiple empires, as well as the fraught connections, liminal forms of legal belonging, and heightened and interrupted mobilities that were indisputably part of the hajj. As the horizons of life narrowed and mobility was increasingly constrained...

..., centrally shaped Korean identity formation, tracing it to and focusing on the precolonial era. First, using our case, we propose the concept of the co­ lonially vulnerable to call attention to the positions and outlooks of peoples and states that were susceptible to foreign rule in the age of empire...

... the world (with the aim of dominating it) and a language that was presented as universal (with the aim of provid­ ing legitimacy to the attempt at domination). These two intentions [. . .] culminated in the thought of an empire: s Here, French colonialism is said to have legitimized its dominating culture...

... Empire.4 But what ifwe were to refuse to read Calderon's invocations in the manner ofher British judges, and instead read Calderon's invocations as an attempt to call upon another world, one illegible to her case's Anglo-centric inter­ preters? The Trinidad inhabited by Calderon and governed by Picton...

...Kennetta Hammond Perry Works Cited Akala . Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire . London : Two Roads , 2018 . Brown Kimberly Juanita . The Repeating Body: Slavery’s Visual Resonance in the Contemporary . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2015 . Carrington...

... in the humanities remains at a critical remove from the more empirical work ofthe social sciences, such that the two fields can "supplement each other, interrupt each other produc­ tively:'8 That is, humanities -based research neither rej ects nor completes social scientific empiricism; rather, it adds...

... casual travelers ( Slight ; Can ). The fugitive scholars arrived in Mecca when the town, like others across the Ottoman Empire, was undergoing great changes. On the one hand, insurrections and secessionist movements had unsettled the imperial seat in Istanbul. Already by the early 1800s, the empire had...

... submission, and Islam means submission and is therefore against freedom, particularly for Muslim women. With the prevailing norms of colonial capitalism and liberal empire, submission is a problem: it is the opposite of individuality, freedom, autonomy, secular reason, and other liberal ideals. Consider two...

... of psychoanalysis (especially as it has been practiced in the critical humanities since the 1960s) and the empirical ambitions of contemporary neuroscience? Or, more enticingly, could there be a rewarding disarticulation of these two projects? It is an important historical touchstone for many of the new neuropsy­...