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History of the Present (2012) 2 (1): 24–51.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Prathama Banerjee Chanakya/Kautilya: History, Philosophy, Theater and the Twentieth-century Political Prathama Banerjee This essay is part ofongoing work on possible historiesofour political pres ent, written from the perspective ofcolonial/postcolonial Bengal. Here I explore the twentieth...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (1): 52–70.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Mohamed Nachi Thinking about lkhtilaf: The Political Construction ofDifference in the Islamic Context Mohamed Nach i This is an inquiry into the question ofdifference, ofthe right to difference in Islamic societies. How is difference treated or engaged there? What are the terms ofthis debate...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 117–132.
Published: 01 October 2016
...Stephanie E. Smallwood The Politics ofthe Archive and History's Accountability to the Enslaved Stephanie E. Smallwood I Somewhere along the thousands of miles of African Atlantic littoral that was the extended site ofthe transatlantic slave trade, some time in the more than four hundred years...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 119–139.
Published: 01 October 2013
...Kabir Tambar 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, in the formation of a nation.1 Renan constructed his argument...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 59–83.
Published: 01 April 2011
...Judith Surkis Carnival Balls and Penal Codes: Body Politics in July Monarchy France Judith Surkis Over the past several decades, historians have focused on the absence and occasional presence ofwomen in publicspaces and in the normative realm of reasoned discussion that is described as the public...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (2): 166–192.
Published: 01 October 2019
...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...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 127–142.
Published: 01 April 2022
... mode of production and cultural dispensation, the phantasmagoria of identity and difference, consumer society, and mass media changed the very terms of political psychoanalysis and subjected it to new conditions of possibility. When psychoanalysis was explicitly political—or politicized, as we might...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 20–26.
Published: 01 April 2023
... on meek and oppressed Muslim women who can be liberated only by the West, what fall into the shadows are the efforts of Muslim-identified women, across the decades, to set their own agenda for change, even if always against the backdrop of Western imperialism and global asymmetries in political...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (2): 222–244.
Published: 01 October 2024
.... Through this censorship case, this article scrutinizes various reconciliation discourses developed in Turkey in the early 2000s regarding the Armenian Genocide and how contemporary art could possibly engage/disengage with those discourses. The political atmosphere that emerged after Hrant Dink’s murder...
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Published: 01 April 2023
Figure 1. Disha Pinky Shaikh , by Prateek Draik for the Dalit Queer Project (October 10, 2019). Disha is a Dalit trans activist and the first trans spokesperson of a political party in Maharashtra. Courtesy of Dalit Queer Project.
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 152–192.
Published: 01 October 2021
... the new politics and poetics that it brought into existence. The outpouring of these emotive and propagandistic songs was directed at rapidly politicizing the Tamil people, thereby bringing the freedom movement to the Madras Presidency, which Bharati felt was lagging behind other parts of the country...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 237–255.
Published: 01 October 2020
... Feminist, Thinking Black that “to challenge identity politics we must offer strategies of politicization that enlarge our conception of who we are, that intensify our sense of intersubjectivity, our relation to a collective reality,” and “examine the self from a new, critical standpoint...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 245–264.
Published: 01 October 2023
..., with what political consequences? What if the epistemological-qua-political ground has changed such that this “permission to narrate” turns out to be far less consequential than Said once believed? Tracing a shift in Israeli historical scholarship, and among the Israeli public, vis-à-vis the expulsion...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 223–240.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Sandrine Sanos Abstract This article proposes that returning Denise Riley’s work on (and troubling of) the category of “women” offers a feminist theorizing and politics that remains both critical and relevant to the political present. It argues that reading Riley again, alongside other anti...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 253–278.
Published: 01 October 2021
... as a subject and as a problem. They each also have forgotten genealogies. This article outlines these genealogies and their intersection through the politics of translating Islam as submission, peace, or salvation; of narrating its place and temporality in modernity; and of reinterpreting historical texts...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 283–297.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Micheal A. Rumore Abstract The burgeoning field of Indian Ocean studies has emerged as a repository of universalist political aspirations, often inspired by the Non-Aligned imagination of the Third World era. In particular, the notion of Indian Ocean “cosmopolitanism,” as both an object of desire...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 101–121.
Published: 01 April 2023
...) and the afterlives of al-Sawlatiyya, the school he founded in 1873 in Mecca, where many South Asian and other scholars and rebels sought refuge in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through his teaching and public activism in Mecca, he built the scaffolding of a long intellectual and political legacy...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (2): 274–296.
Published: 01 October 2024
... African historiography have either dismissed it as an ideological text or lauded it as an ambitious attempt to call out French hegemony in its former colonies. This essay offers an alternative reading that underlines its social and political dimensions in the context of Moroccan nation-building...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 209–235.
Published: 01 October 2020
... political community and civil war, even as they disagreed about what form the future republic should take. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 revolution political community civil society civil war Billaud-Varenne Robespierre Saint-Just Shades of autumn color suffuse...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 281–304.
Published: 01 October 2020
..., the state also has to present the problems in need of being solved. This study focuses on how the problem of intolerance is represented in governmental policies. The study positions tolerance as a symptomatic politics of regulation of the self as well as minorities. In a detailed study of an exhibition...
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