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Class Struggle and Culture Wars in the Springtime of the French Revolution, Year II (1794)
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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 (2021) 11 (2): 152–192.
Published: 01 October 2021
... invariably meet with prohibition. Against the backdrop of “a highly repressive political system, one that denies its citizens the right to free speech, enthusiasm does not simply manifest itself publicly but rather forms a community of free agents. In going public with their feelings, the diverse spectators...
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Land Rights and Women’s Rights in Morocco: Cooperation and Contestation among Rural and Urban Women Activists
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (1): 23–52.
Published: 01 April 2021
... on cooperation, communal wealth, and shared knowledge. In her 2018 lecture “Feminism and the Politics of the Commons,” Federici reads the commons “both as an already present reality, especially in the form of existing communitarian forms of social organization, and a perspective anticipating an embryonic way...
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Thinking about Ikhtilâf: The Political Construction of Difference in the Islamic Context
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (1): 52–70.
Published: 01 April 2012
... that these divergences and tensions are real in their manifestations and their consequences. In this regard, ijma ' is construed as the expression ofthe will ofthe community (umma) . It presupposes, therefore, a homogenous and unitary vision ofboth the political community and ofsovereignty, which 55 Difference...
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The Vexed Relationship of Emancipation and Equality
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 148–168.
Published: 01 October 2012
... emancipation;' that is, real freedom and political community: "Political emancipa tion is a reduction of man, on the one hand, to a member of civil society, an independent and egoistic individual, and on the other hand, to a citizen, to a moral person:'12 For Marx neither citizenship nor civil society (what...
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1793: The Neglected Legacy of Insurgent Universality
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History of the Present (2015) 5 (2): 109–136.
Published: 01 October 2015
... as the natural right ofthe assembled citizens. Insurrection was indeed the everyday political practice ofthe Paris Commune, the forty-eight sections and the sectional societies. And, even more, it was the practice of the bindingmandate, which undermined the sovereign unity of the people and the representative...
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Occupy Wall Street: “Bartleby” Against the Humanities
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (1): 99–118.
Published: 01 April 2013
... movement, which is all about solidarity and community, the creation ofnew societal structures: n If the political analogies about which Hardesty had expressed reservations justtwo weeksearlierforced Bartleby's plurality ofmeaninginto the "singular interpretations" expressed in "briefslogans; then here...
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Zrima: The Colonial Flow
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 219–243.
Published: 01 October 2023
... settlements and outposts, eschew religious or political explanations for their decision to live in these frontier communities. In what for some would sound like perverse irony, especially in Ma’ale Eliya, what draws the outpost people to go to live in the “hilltop,” as the outpost is known, is a lust...
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The Moral Economy of Settler Colonialism: Israel and the “Evacuation Trauma”
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (1): 49–74.
Published: 01 April 2014
...) as traumatic and thus morally illegitimate corresponds to reaffirming the legitimacy of the entire colonization enterprise and re tracing the moral-political limits of a settler community based since 1948 on the dispossession of the Palestinians. In this moral economy, to frame the evacuation of the colonies...
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Our Food is Our Bond: A History of Jewish and Muslim Animal Slaughter and Post-Christian Social Science
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (1): 29–56.
Published: 01 April 2018
... that despite their many faults, Jews could become full members ofa political community. In his two-volume work from 1781, Concerning theAmelioration ofthe Civil Status oftheJews, he acknowledged the lowly status ofmost German Jews, as well as their laziness and depraved habits, but reminded his readership...
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Another Arabia
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 101–121.
Published: 01 April 2023
... shaped religious and political sociabilities among Muslim communities across Arabia, Indonesia, Mali, South Asia, West Africa, and Zanzibar ( Laffan 60–63 ). As a result of these scholarly networks, a multiplicity of new schools emerged in the early twentieth century. Pearl merchant Hajj Muhammad Ali...
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A Tale of “Two Totalitarianisms”: The Crisis of Capitalism and the Historical Memory of Communism
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (2): 115–142.
Published: 01 October 2014
... 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 of Nazism have been mor ally and politically recognized...
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Notes on the ‘Cellular Regime of Nationality’
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 April 2014
... at the end ofthe Empire. An insurrection in the capital fought under the flag ofthe Universal Republic, the Commune as event and as political culture has always proved resistant to any seamless integration into the national narrative. As one ofitsformer membersrecalled years later it was, above all else...
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1525: The Insurgent Theology of the German Peasants
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History of the Present (2025) 15 (1): 14–38.
Published: 01 April 2025
... instead of estates, guilds, and corporations, on private property instead of common ownership, and on the concentration of state political power instead of its dispersion in a plurality of local communities. Roman law was used and weaponized by legal scholars in this clash with old customs ( Whitman...
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Historical Critique and Political Voice after the Ottoman Empire
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 119–139.
Published: 01 October 2013
... secular republic. On the other hand, the history of the republic has not been peaceful for many Alevi communities. It has been strikingly violent, perpetuating rather than preventing the political vulnerability ofAlevis.23 Ifsecular national citizenship is commonly touted byAlevis today as a necessary...
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Chanakya/Kautilya: History, Philosophy, Theater and the Twentieth-century Political
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (1): 24–51.
Published: 01 April 2012
... and modern. Take the case ofPartha Chatterjee as an instance. Arguing against Benedict Anderson, Chatterjee calls for a freer intellectual imagination, one that is able to grasp the fact that the colonized imagined political community inwaysvery different from Euro-American nationalisms. But even he seems...
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Guinea Sam Nightingale and Magic Marx in Civil War Missouri: Provincializing Global History and Decolonizing Theory
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (2): 140–176.
Published: 01 October 2018
... equivalents. Still, workers enmeshed in both systems produced extraordi nary forms of political life and imagination in their efforts to create freedom from and within situations where private property-in capital or in human beings-reigned supreme over human life. Conjure and communism are each...
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Eurafrica Incognita: The Colonial Origins of the European Union
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (1): 1–32.
Published: 01 April 2017
... in the development oflifrica, and tomorrow Euraftica may become one ofthe principal.factors in world politics. Isolated nations can no longer keep pace with the world. What wouldAlgeria amount to by itself? On the other hand, whatfuture might it not have, as one ofthefoundations ofthe Euraftican community now taking...
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Bound by the Commons of Death: Plague, Pandemic, and the Indian University
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 192–218.
Published: 01 October 2023
... an entire population marked by religion from the framework of national-communal time and into the horizon of zoological or species time. The Muslim populations of India, under the shadow of the latest amendment, are only alive on the condition that they obviate every possibility for political self-assertion...
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Paranoid Publics
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 103–126.
Published: 01 April 2022
... by. Concurrently, voter suppression, the rise of incarceration rates, and the persistence of police impunity eroded civil rights gains. These associative links were apprehended by the January 6 rioters in their zeal to oppose Black Lives Matter, Jews, Muslims, and “communism.” In their political theology...
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