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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 57–70.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Dwaipayan Banerjee Abstract In the history of medicine, the 1918 influenza pandemic (otherwise known as the Spanish flu) occupies a curious place. For decades, historians have claimed that this event reshaped human history, but then somehow disappeared, leaving little historical trace. They have...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 27–30.
Published: 01 April 2023
[email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 In the midst of the pandemic, a notification popped up on my Twitter feed. A professor in the western state of Maharashtra, Dr. Ajay Koli, had frantically tagged a number of friends, colleagues, and acquaintances. Koli is an active member...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 192–218.
Published: 01 October 2023
... education, faced as it is with a dangerous encounter with the anti–citizenship law protests in 2019–20 and the subsequent impact of the pandemic. The Indian university, in the aftermath of the ruling Hindu right wing’s legislative dismantling of the country’s citizenship laws in December 2019, performed...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 71–86.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Nidhi Mahajan Abstract This essay traces how sailors aboard wooden sailing vessels (dhows) negotiate mobility across the Indian Ocean, revealing their precarious conditions preceding the COVID-19 pandemic that came to the fore after 2020. Focusing on Yusuf, a sailor in captivity in Iran during...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Anjali Arondekar; Sherene Seikaly [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. The pandemic mandates new histories...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 136–140.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of colonial temporality. The existential challenge of the pandemic in Palestine revealed that a struggle for survival mixed with the hope of refusal can help us find a way outside of settler time. The nation-state need not define our peoplehood, and colonial temporality need not define our stories. Those...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 45–51.
Published: 01 April 2023
... as they were united in privileging the economy over the safety of most citizens. At the global level, reactions to pandemic-related restrictions shed new light on the specious dichotomies of an irrational Orient and an enlightened West. When Saudi authorities severely restricted the pilgrimage, for example...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 127–132.
Published: 01 April 2023
... engenders a protracted pandemic. Since death, violence, torture, and deceit are a part of collective popular consciousness in Kashmir, death by disease elicited unique responses. In a society where martyrdom is a metonym for a “good life,” how is death by virus perceived? In a volatile war zone, how does...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 40–44.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Aomar Boum [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 After a year and a half in pandemic exile in Los Angeles, I made it home to a village at the foot of the Bani Mountains, my bled , Lamhamid ( fig. 1 ). Bled connotes a rural expanse, kinship, ancestors...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 20–26.
Published: 01 April 2023
... with the first months of the pandemic. As I tried to retrieve high-resolution copies of photos amid lockdowns in different parts of the world, I reflected again on the obscured histories of and on the politics of access to certain voices and images. The images that preoccupied me in the spring of 2020 were...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 11–19.
Published: 01 April 2023
.... In between these phrases, alarm, disappointment, fear, and catastrophe fall invisibly. Now the pandemic, hospitals, and sudden deaths are woven in with military reprisals, arrests, prisoners in terrible conditions, and economic collapse as Sri Lanka runs out of dollars and food prices rise dramatically...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 31–39.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Bishnupriya Ghosh [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 What does it mean to write histories of global pandemics? As global forms defined by their wide geographic extension, minimal population immunity, and contagiousness, among other criteria, pandemics...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 123–126.
Published: 01 April 2023
... handles that had shared trendy posters with revolutionary poetry from Faiz Ahmed Faiz now put out chic requests for donations for fundraisers hosted on a mushrooming cluster of social impact websites ( Ramasubramanian ). As the pandemic forced bodies to interface with the state in unique...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 52–56.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Ilham Khuri-Makdisi [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 The pandemic has revealed the deep and structural inequalities marking various lifeworlds and social landscapes, accelerating trends and vulnerabilities long at play. It has further...
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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 (2022) 12 (2): 271–282.
Published: 01 October 2022
... of American Economic Development , edited by Beckert Sven and Rockman Seth , 1 – 27 . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2016 . Black Stephanie , dir. H-2 Worker . Docurama Films : New Video , 2008 . Brown Kate . “ The Pandemic is Not a Natural Disaster...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 133–135.
Published: 01 April 2023
...; and with the estrangement of serving a life sentence as a returnee in waiting, perpetually out of place ( Suleiman ; Hanafi , Chaaban, and Seyfert). The pandemic has hit them hard, but life goes on. Their history is one of perpetual crisis, a hundred years of dispossession, loss, and damage control. Every crisis triggers...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 60–79.
Published: 01 April 2022
... of a global pandemic that has killed, as of today’s count, more than three million humans. 3 It is a time to reflect on our notions of the human, of history, and of the world as they relate to how we think about the history of the present. It is also time to assess what they reveal about the constitutive...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 223–240.
Published: 01 October 2021
... and its capacity for interruption of the common sense for the expediency of present (and urgent) political battles—against authoritarianism, state violence, or a pandemic. Yet the ambivalent discomfort of feminism’s own reflexive orientation is precisely what sustains the possibilities of “unanticipated...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 219–243.
Published: 01 October 2023
... into a repetitive rhythm. It was the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Israel, and orders to shelter in place were issued by the government. We were about two miles east of the outpost, deep inside the desert, in a small crevice flanked by two slopes in what seemed like the middle of nowhere. But for about one...
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