...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...

...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...

... from Field Marshal Gideon Ernst von Laudon’s spoils of war on the outskirts of Vienna. Utilizing Anthony Vidler’s concept of “warped space,” the article explores Laudon’s garden as an exemplary form of imperial space. It then proceeds to argue that imperial capitalism continued to produce warped spaces...

... Kolb’s method of “epidemiological reading” to reveal and analyze the racial and imperial anxieties that underlie this understudied text. The article begins with a summary of Madar al-Zar and an account of the sociopolitical context in which it was published. It then pulls back the surface layers...

...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...

... of torture under the Spanish imperial legal code. Calderon's case against Picton thus articulated diverse imperial worlds, and its interimperial scenography placed peculiar interpretive pressures on the British court. The case not only involved the negotiation ofthe quotidian incoherence attending any legal...

... in relation to French neocolonialism [Iafra nrafrique] , and the spread of private military corporations in the neoliberal post-Cold War present.It was to be an inquiry into the afterlives of empire that traced a genealogy of post-democratic state forms in relation to international law and new imperial...

... events, meanings, and memory of French imperialism and decolonization in Algeria. While this investigation may not offer evidence in favor of a specific legal outcome for victims, an analysisofthe representation oftesting during and after this period exposes structures ofrepression and elision that have...

...Hari Ramesh Copyright © 2019 University of Illinois Press 2019 The Politics of Peoples in Rabindranath Tagore and W.E.B. Du Bois Hari Ramesh We have come to understand twentieth century decolonization through the lens ofa complex set ofrelationships between imperialism, knowledge...

..., Fewer and Socially Distanced, Arrive in Mecca for Annual Hajj .” July 30 , 2020 . Kane Eileen . Russian Hajj: Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2015 . Low Michael Christopher . Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj...

... to Mecca ( Fathi ). To the chagrin of imperial powers, Mecca had become a haven for Muslim rebels fleeing colonial repression. 4 For some, it was a transit point on the way to Cairo, Java, and other destinations. For others, like Kairanawi, it became home. The South Asian scholar-activists who...

... at a propitious time. Seven years earlier, her owner Destrehan had passed away, leaving behind a massive estate, several offspring of French and African descent, and dozens of enslaved Africans. He died in the middle of a major imperial transition. In 1762 the King of France transferred the colony of Louisiana...

... for allegedly being "anti­ Western" as opposed to being an analysis of how the Occident/West came to be.17 He would later make the mistake, including in a 2003 new preface to Orienta/ism, of falling into the unfortunate trap of a liberal equivalence between Orientalist-inspired imperial jingoism in the United...

... and madeevidentinSaid'sidentification ofOrientalism as a problem ofhistorical objectivity. That is to say, Orientalism is for Said an objective matter-one of actuality along with representational possibility, and we see this worked out in his extensive treatment of the relationship between imperial sovereignty and imperial economic...

... traced the contours of US imperialism following the Second World War. Specifically, Said wrote about US imperial power and its role in shaping the contemporary Middle East. What’s more, The Question of Palestine (1980) , a companion book to Orientalism published at nearly the same time, made his...

... within the framework of a distinct notion of imperial citizenship. But reading back­ wards from the Gandhi who was to be is a less than justifiable historical method. So, for instance, Partha Chatterjee speaks about the fundamental critique of"bourgeois society" in HindSwaraj; he reads it as a text...

..., as an ever more reactionary plantocracy came to Puerto Rico from Haiti and an imperial US South, which sought to annex Caribbean islands as slave states ( Levander ; García Peña ). Spain used Puerto Rico to replace agricultural production lost after the Haitian revolution, successfully making it one...

... an unarticulated historical experience. Throughout the discussion, Hall is careful to underscore the work that the disavowal of race and empire actually does in serving, itself, as an agent in the proliferation of imperial and postcolonial violence. Pointing to examples including the Mau Mau rebellion, the Notting...

... part of our own responsiveness to the challenges of the present. ■ This is, nevertheless, a personal history and should not be taken as representative of the history of decolonization in the imperial metropole. As Hall notes, “The full extent of the presence of the myriad of colonials in London...