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Another Arabia
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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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The Stage of Adolescence: Anticolonial Time, Youth Insurgency, and the Marriage Crisis in Hashimite Iraq
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 160–197.
Published: 01 October 2013
... analytically bracketed the global ruptures of decolonization from these shifts even when nodding from time to time to moments of decolonization as an "influence" or "context:' The first section of this article explores a conflict in the 1920s among secondary school students in Baghdad, British Mandate...
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Educational Pasts, Enduring Colonial Presents: Indigenous Student Conscripts and the Foundation of the US University
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 141–165.
Published: 01 October 2023
... mention of “the attendance of Virginia Indian boys at the College’s Brafferton Indian School.” Much is obscured in this comment. For one, the Brafferton Indian School was more than a minor project of the college. When the British Crown officially granted William & Mary its charter in 1693...
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Neoliberalized Knowledge
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 113–129.
Published: 01 April 2011
..., the growing governance ofeverything by market metrics and rationality (the process ofneoliberalization), submits all domains ofuniversity activity to principles ofaccounting and justification in whichthe humanities fare especially badly and in which humanities practitioners are poorly schooled, unwilling...
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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
... ofopinion; most specifically between the jurists, orfuqaha, or between the legal doctrines and schools (madhahib) . Yet the acceptance ofthis narrower technical sense was overdetermined, since it involved specific interests and privileged benefits, drastically reducing the possibilities ofreflecting...
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Introduction
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 5–8.
Published: 01 April 2020
... and History .” theoryrevolt.com (accessed August 15 , 2019 ). Stoler Ann Laura , McGranahan Carole , and Perdue Peter C. , eds. Imperial Formations . Santa Fe, NM : School for Advanced Research Press , 2007 . Tambar Kabir . “ Historical Critique and Political Voice...
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Archive Angst
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (1): 107–118.
Published: 01 April 2021
... the printed announcement of my birth to all of my letters to them (and theirs to me) from college and graduate school; when they cleaned out their garage, they passed it along to me, carefully bundled in large envelopes and boxes. Not that the collection is exhaustive or even well organized; archives never...
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The Future behind the Mountains and the Sand Dunes: Abdallah Laroui’s Prescriptions for a Recovered Moroccan Modernity
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (2): 274–296.
Published: 01 October 2024
... of the Annales school, he deployed a materialist reading of the Maghribi past to debunk certain colonial myths and to replace an ideology of decadence with one of possible renewal. Laroui countered the facile analyses of imperial orientalists—who believed this region was intrinsically inferior—by retracing...
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The Symptomatic Self in the Age of Tolerance: The Problem of Anne Frank’s Not Being Herself
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 281–304.
Published: 01 October 2020
... “an order of policy discourse that is largely nonlegal without being extralegal, as a state speech act that is only occasionally an enforceable rule, and as a popular discourse that circulates in and among schools, churches, civic associations, museums, and street conversation” (79). Brown bases her...
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Monastic Governmentality, Colonial Misogyny, and Postcolonial Amnesia in South Asia
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (1): 57–98.
Published: 01 April 2013
...;' the reform ofdesignated groups through a detailed supervision in confined quarters such as prisons, asylums, and schools.2 After 1982, Foucault refined his argument on Hellenistic govern mentality, suggesting that it was made up ofa set ofascetic exercises through which the knowledge ofthe selfand the care...
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Who and What is Sex For?: Notes on Theogamy and the Sexuality of Religion
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (2): 175–196.
Published: 01 October 2017
... by Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, anti-caste radical, philosopher, and chiefarchitect ofthe Indian constitution.Ambedkar was himselfa member ofacommunitydesignated as untouchable, or Dalit, aspoliticizedoutcastes have come to refer to themselves.Educated at Columbia and the London School ofEconomics, he...
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Marx, Frankenchickens, and the Logic of Capitalism: Rethinking Spellbound Histories in a Time of Crisis
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 271–282.
Published: 01 October 2022
... and approaches. Above all, they reject the older theorizations of capitalism offered by Karl Marx, Max Weber, Karl Polanyi, and John Maynard Keynes as excessively modeled on static ideal types. Similarly, they counter the rationality and utilitarianism of Milton Friedman and the neoclassical school of economics...
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Wrestling with Angels: Theoretical Legacies of a Familiar Stranger
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 122–128.
Published: 01 April 2020
... (transcribed?) and published (even before the book itself), if not by Hall himself, then by one of his many and prolific interlocutors in the course of multiple expansive, engrossing, and ongoing conversations that I have been overhearing in fragments since I started graduate school in 1986. Reading...
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Coming Out: Closet Rhetoric and Media Publics
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History of the Present (2015) 5 (1): 31–64.
Published: 01 April 2015
...-deepening interpenetration ofthe ideal ofthe public and queer coming out discourse.Savage says that the project was inspired by a com ment posted on the blog entry he wroteabout Billy Lucas, a fifteen-year-old in Greensburg, Indiana, who hanged himselfafter an unsuccessful appeal to school authorities...
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History at the Roundabout: The Pasts and Presents of the Gilets Jaunes
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 183–206.
Published: 01 October 2022
... in a place is belied by their need—as public transit and public schools and public hospitals in rural areas close—to spend a good portion of their lives in their cars going to work, to get health care, and to ferry their children about ( Fourquet ). Close to half the Gilets jaunes at the roundabouts were...
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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
... president Jacques Chirac in 2003 on the eve of passage of the law forbidding the wearing ofheadscarves in state schools.20 Recently, the burqa hasbeen outlawed in anumberofcountries on thegroundsthat it constitutes a threat to public security. After all, some feminists argue, "a veil can hide a beard:'21...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 April 2023
.... Rosie Bsheer excavates a buried archive of material and discursive breadth. Using pandemic history as an epistemic device to ponder geopolitical interdependence and disrupt settled modes of historical thinking, she excavates the buried history of the al-Sawlatiyya school in Central Mecca to reveal...
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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
.... Situated at the public crossroads ( in triviis ), grammar schools occupied the trivial interest of the masses, while larger enigmas around the truth of being and death were reserved solely for enlightened practice away from the social humdrum. With the Renaissance and its privileging of what Durkheim...
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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
... to make out the improbable and unscheduled makeup of Commune activities, practices that could draw together an African from the Papal Guards and former school teacher Louise Michel, her old army trooper's godillotsunder her dress, the two alone performing sentry duty late at night. The Papal Army had...
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From Criticism to Critique
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (2): 265–274.
Published: 01 October 2011
..., the contradictions between the laws against the hijab and the burkha make clear that something more is at stake than the freedom of women and equality between the sexes: after all, while the 2004 law against religious signs in public schools was passed in the name of secularism, the 2010 ban on integral veiling...
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