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History of the Present (2017) 7 (1): 1–32.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Peo Hansen; Stefan Jonsson Copyright © 2017 University of Illinois Press 2017 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...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 119–151.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Henning Trüper Abstract This article proposes a re-reading of what inclusion into the sphere of the historical actually means in modern European historical discourse. It argues that this re-reading permits challenging a powerful but problematic norm of ontological homogeneity as something...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 152–192.
Published: 01 October 2021
... within the crucible of the swadeshi movement, are both “the masses” (a populist political subject) as well as the anticipated citizens of a future sovereign democracy. To distinguish the Tamil conjuncture from the histories of European populism, Part I outlines the political implications of public...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 4–33.
Published: 01 April 2022
... that developed in and around the first factories of the modern world, namely, the sugar plantations of the colonial Caribbean. The article links Freud’s own economic and intellectual history to the production of capital and the theft of land and labor in the Caribbean by way of the central European trade...
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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 (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 (2020) 10 (2): 187–207.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Kristina L. Richardson Abstract This essay proposes that the invisibility of so-called Gypsies in Middle Eastern and Central Asian historiography derives from two linked phenomena. First, the work of nineteenth- and twentieth-century European and North American philologists, medievalists...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (2): 245–273.
Published: 01 October 2024
... Propagandhi’s focus on hypocrisy in punk communities through a historical framework, their perception of the early modern European epistemological origins of animal abuse, and their performance of a social history that magnifies the experiences of marginalized peoples. [email protected]...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 184–199.
Published: 01 October 2012
..., and homosexuals from the perils they encounter in the banlieues, to the Italian Northern League's and the British National Party's recurrent attacks against immigrants, to widespread claims that the entrance of a supposedly Muslim Turkey in Europe constitutes a threat for European women, to Geert Wilders's...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 60–79.
Published: 01 April 2022
... of traumatizing decisions regarding human subjectivity catalyzed and developed further in the European by the colonial encounter. As she states, it is “this first degodded (if still hybridly religio-secular) . . . human in history,” “Man1” as she names him, that is “foundational to modernity...
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (2): 115–142.
Published: 01 October 2014
... Declaration on European Conscience and Communism in the Czech parliament.The signatories to this Declaration proclaimed that the"millions of victims of Communism and their families are entitled to enjoy justice, sympathy, understanding and recognition for their sufferings in the same way as the victims...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 5–30.
Published: 01 April 2011
...Andrew Zimmerman Copyright © 2011 University of Illinois Press 2011 Primitive Art, Primitive Accumulation, and the Origin ofthe Work ofArt in German New Guinea Andrew Zimmerman One of the most important ways that European artists created an identifi ably modern art was by turning...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (1): 88–116.
Published: 01 April 2018
... evoked an imperial, Eurocentric order of the world, which the exhibition both represented and provoked. Its pavilions aimed to represent the splendor of European supremacy over the rest of the world.6 This framing of the exhibition as "international" did not designate the re lationship between states...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 28–45.
Published: 01 April 2020
... the later attached blue fields with the Sultans gilded name” (Kanitz 16). To exemplify this cover-up, Kanitz presented an image of the Türkensteine in Hadersdorf and a translation of their historical inscription, or tarih . Behind their Oriental facade, Belgrade’s European structures called upon Habsburg...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 101–116.
Published: 01 April 2020
... a phenomenon of Europe and associated with global capitalism. Relatively recently, however, non-European empires have begun to be compared with European varieties, casting doubt on the assumption that the European case can be taken as representative of imperialism tout court. The volume Imperial Formations...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 193–208.
Published: 01 October 2021
.... With the dismantling, transportation, and reconstruction of the Temple of Dendur, additional layers of the palimpsest are added to those addressed thus far: the archaeological, architectural, political, religious, labor, and cultural histories of Ancient Egypt; eighteenth- to twentieth-century European travelers...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (2): 265–274.
Published: 01 October 2011
..., and the new sexualization ofracial politics, their nationalization has become a defining fea- ture of European politics in the context of anti - immigration policies: this explains the interest manifested by many scholars and activists in North America in the developments on this side of the Atlantic. What...
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History of the Present (2015) 5 (1): 95–108.
Published: 01 April 2015
... of languages into families, and, mostimportantly, the rejection ofthe divine origins oflanguage byphilology. How the Arab and the Jew came to exist outside the discourse of European anti-Semitism, as well as philology's invention ofthe category ofthe Semite, is not to demand that one return to a state prior...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 183–186.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., are similarly clear, similarly in need of a non-Eurocentric historicization. Foucault learned to think about the prison from the Black Panther Party, though he did not properly acknowledge this, and re-narrated this knowledge as a story about European history that we are to read, he seems to have expected...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 241–269.
Published: 01 October 2022
... meant was that modern social scientists employed concepts such as “labor” and “human” which, though formulated in Europe, were taken as sufficient—indeed uniquely capable—of articulating non-European “heterotemporal horizons” outside of European “political modernity” ( Provincializing xvii, xii...
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