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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 31–58.
Published: 01 April 2011
...Brian Connolly Copyright © 2011 University of Illinois Press 2011 Liberalism's Incestuous Subject: Private and Public Sex: in the Nineteenth-Century United States Brian Connolly Beginning in the mid-eighteenth century and reaching its apex in the mid nineteenth century, a discourse...
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History of the Present (2015) 5 (1): 31–64.
Published: 01 April 2015
...Danielle Bobker Copyright © 2015 University of Illinois Press 2015 Coming Out: Closet Rhetoric and Media Publics Danielle Bobker So we are out ofthe closet, but into what? -Judith Butler These days it sometimes seems as though the only legitimate way to come out as gay or lesbian, whether...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 103–126.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Zahid R. Chaudhary Abstract This article takes up the recent insurrection in Washington, DC, and the paranoid politics of QAnon. It analyzes the gamification of paranoia across QAnon and related paranoid publics. Taking seriously Sigmund Freud’s insight that delusional formations are attempts...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (2): 245–273.
Published: 01 October 2024
...Joseph D. Bryan Abstract Since the turn of the century, historians have focused on the diverse representations of the past, recognizing that traditional spaces (e.g., museums, statuary, and public commemorations) no longer have a monopoly on the public dissemination of history. This article...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 152–192.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Rajeswari Sunder Rajan Abstract This article identifies the rhetoric and sentiment of enthusiasm as a certain specifically Tamil historical-aesthetic-political conjuncture that operates in both an affective register and as a structure of publicity. The “people,” who emerge as a subject of politics...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 192–218.
Published: 01 October 2023
...Debaditya Bhattacharya Abstract This article springs from a larger project attempting to rethink the university conceptually. It proceeds by resignifying the cardinal registers through which the public university may realize the meanings of its publicness —that is, in its relationship...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 174–191.
Published: 01 April 2024
..., the “sexual revolution,” welfare policy, public rhetoric, and public policies in locking in new iterations of racism and racial difference in the post–civil rights era, and the importance of female sexuality, pregnancy, and maternity in constructing arenas for deploying these developments. Policymakers...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (2): 274–296.
Published: 01 October 2024
... in the 1970s. It puts Laroui in dialogue with other intellectual voices of this time to illustrate the originality of his call for the public role of historians of decolonization. The article also discusses Laroui’s political withdrawal in the next decade and his shift from Marxism to liberal state reformism...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (2): 222–244.
Published: 01 October 2024
... Republic for more than a hundred years, and Sarkis being an Istanbul Armenian born and raised in Turkey, the selection caused quite a stir and sparked a public discussion on art and collective healing when it was announced. As a result, the catalog of Sarkis’s work Respiro was subjected to censorship...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (1): 23–52.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., development, and a public common good, sulāliyāt tie gender dynamics to the intersectional structural inequalities produced and reproduced by land privatization and by the alliance between the open-market economy and patriarchal political authoritarianism. This article explores the subaltern agency...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 265–274.
Published: 01 October 2023
... in the public sphere. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 presentism history American Historical Association Sitting in the lobby of the Philadelphia Marriott at the 2023 annual convention of the American Historical Association, one would never know...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 166–191.
Published: 01 October 2023
... are read through two groundbreaking anthologies— Dark Matter , a collection of speculative fiction from the African diaspora, and Walking the Clouds , a collection of Indigenous science fiction—and the social conditions of their publication. Using the work of Walter Benjamin and his writing against...
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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 (2020) 10 (2): 209–235.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Sophie Wahnich; Alexander Dunlop; Sylvia Schafer Abstract In the spring of Year II (1794), the future of French society was uncertain. This article looks at the response to the uncertainty of three members of the Committee on Public Safety, who discussed the need to choose between a revolutionary...
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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 (2011) 1 (1): 113–129.
Published: 01 April 2011
... for post-secondary liberal arts degrees. In this context, humanities education and research at public universities are not merely in crisis but in danger of extinction. Outside the university, the affordability and desirability ofnonmarketable knowledge for the many is steadily shrinking. Inside...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 59–83.
Published: 01 April 2011
... of reasoned discussion that is described as the public sphere. They have elaborated and critically interrogated theoretical formulations of modern liberal politics as based on an opposition between, on the one hand, a rational, abstractable, public, and male citizen, and on the other, a sensible...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (2): 177–208.
Published: 01 October 2018
... offorced assimilation.It was only with the post-Suharto presidency ofAbdurrahman Wahid, who in 2000 formally revoked New Order-era laws banning public displays of Chinese culture, that family members began to come openly to the mass grave to perform "tomb cleaning" rituals.3 The process of exhumation...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (1): 29–56.
Published: 01 April 2013
...Jordan Alexander Stein Copyright © 2013 University of Illinois Press 2013 The Whig Interpretation ofMedia: SheppardLee and Jacksonian Paperwork JordanAlexander Stein Scholars in many different disciplines generally accept that the conceptual abstraction called "the public sphere"-a space...
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History of the Present (2015) 5 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 April 2015
...] farm, and they were ours. We had survived it with a minimum ofbrutalization. We had forced them to retreat. Our tormentors were tormented. We had twisted the tail of the lion and lived to tell the story. -James Farmer, Lay Bare the Heart Crime and Punishment? For several weeks following the publication...
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