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Published: 01 April 2023
Figure 1. “‘Good’ Sleep These Days,” Al-Fukaha , July 20, 1927 (a depiction of zar in the popular press).
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (1): 53–79.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Jaeyoon Park Abstract In the past four decades, the discourse on addiction in the United States has dramatically changed. Most scholarly and popular accounts have depicted this change as an instance of “medicalization,” whereby medical definitions and imperatives have displaced those of morality...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 183–206.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Donald Reid Abstract The Gilets jaunes brought attention to the existence and demands of the popular classes as other than the deplorables of the far right. This essay examines the ideas of an innovative group of historians who interpret the Gilets jaunes as evoking and enacting the unresolved...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 87–100.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Figure 1. “‘Good’ Sleep These Days,” Al-Fukaha , July 20, 1927 (a depiction of zar in the popular press). ...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 108–137.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Sigrid Vertommen Abstract Surrogacy is a popular assisted reproductive practice in Israel, and it has been legal since 1996, albeit, until recently, only for married heterosexual couples. Same-sex couples who aspired to genetic parenthood were therefore “forced” to look for available surrogates...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 152–156.
Published: 01 April 2020
... aesthetics, by which I mean music as a source of individual pleasure and experience—history, and cultural studies. As a bit of background I should say that Stuart Hall features prominently in the cultural studies of popular music—particularly, if not surprisingly, of black popular musics from North...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 152–192.
Published: 01 October 2021
... . “ Bharati Style and the Tamil National Popular .” Almost Island , Winter 2012 . almostisland.com/winter_2012/special_issue_style/bharati_style_and_the_tamil_national_popular.html . Bate Bernard . Tamil Oratory and the Dravidian Aesthetic . New York : Columbia University Press , 2009...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (1): 24–51.
Published: 01 April 2012
..., and from Tamil Nadu and Kerala in the south. Despite these debates around the real-historical Chanakya, Chanakya has remained a popular and reckonable name throughout the centuries. He was invoked in precolonialpoliticaltreatises, classical Sanskrit plays, and collections of popular tales. In modern times...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 59–83.
Published: 01 April 2011
... Press Carnival Balls and Penal Codes for becoming a legislator:'3 Proud.hon and politicians after him declined to name that organ. It is useful to investigate their silence. In the July Monarchy, popular culture imagery targeted corporeality, and implicitly men's corporeality, as a powerful symbol...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (2): 140–176.
Published: 01 October 2018
.... Fremont, the general in command oftheWesternDepartment, to supporttheirefforts. Fremontgave sanction to popular anti-slavery activities already taking place within the UnionArmy with hisAugust 30, 1861, proclamation liberating all slaves held by disloyal Missourians.106 Lincoln countermanded Fremont's...
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (2): 171–202.
Published: 01 October 2014
... that popularizes this work, tropes that in a very general way imbue the science being popularized with an anthropomorphic quality. By focusing on the way in whichthe story ofbig history is told, it becomes clear that there is little to distinguish big history from the genre of popular science that often quite...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 140–145.
Published: 01 April 2020
... . . . driven ‘from above’” prioritized “the mobilization of the state at the expense of collective popular energies” (138–39). Hall’s critique of the postcolonial nationalist project mirrors his analysis of postwar Labourism and social democracy in Britain expressed most famously in the 1979 essay “The Great...
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (2): 115–142.
Published: 01 October 2014
... TwentiethCentury, 1914-1991, a book that followed his popular trilogy on the"long nineteenth century": TheAge ofRe volution, TheAge ofCapital, and TheAge ofEmpire .TheAge ofExtremes was 120 HISTORY ofthe PRESENT an instant international success, translated into twenty languages in about thirty countries...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (2): 245–273.
Published: 01 October 2024
... . “ The Englishness of English Punk: Sex Pistols, Subcultures, and Nostalgia .” Popular Music and Society 31 , no. 4 ( 2008 ): 469 – 88 . Ambrosch Gerfried . “ ‘Guilty of Being White’: Punk’s Ambivalent Relationship with Race and Racism .” Journal of Popular Culture 51 , no. 4 ( 2018 ): 902 – 22...
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History of the Present (2015) 5 (1): 31–64.
Published: 01 April 2015
... of control she had had over the visibility of her sexual identity as a young adult, Foster suggests that it was only in the past two or three decades that coming out has been redefined, especially for celebrities, as a process that ideally involves the popular media. Many queer media scholars would concur...
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 April 2014
... to which the insurgents shared no blueprint ofthe society to come. The Commune, in this sense, was a working labora tory ofpolitical inventions, improvised on the spot or hobbled together out of past scenarios and phrases, reconfigured as need be, and fed by desires awakened in the popular reunions...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 28–45.
Published: 01 April 2020
... to the pantheon of significant imperial figures. Soon after his death, two songs celebrating his prowess became part of the popular canon of soldiers’ songs. Adapted to an earlier melody but with slightly modified lyrics, “Marschieren wir in das türkische Land” sang of Laudon’s resolve and the might of his...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 133–135.
Published: 01 April 2023
...://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdr018 . Meari Lena . “ Sumud: A Palestinian Philosophy of Confrontation in Colonial Prisons .” South Atlantic Quarterly 113 , no. 3 ( 2014 ): 547 – 78 . https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-2692182 . Qumsiyeh Mazin B. Popular Resistance in Palestine: A History...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 127–132.
Published: 01 April 2023
.... In Kashmir, a stringent and impermeable lockdown had been in place since August 2019 to crush popular anger at the Indian government’s divestment of Jammu and Kashmir’s special constitutional status that offered nominal political autonomy to the disputed state ( Syed ). Localized lockdowns predate...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 20–26.
Published: 01 April 2023
... elsewhere. With both academic and popular spotlights largely focused 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...
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