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History of the Present (2021) 11 (1): 80–105.
Published: 01 April 2021
... Ivan Sen. Both films collapse the detective genre with settler colonialism’s most recognizable representational genre: the Western. In so doing, they articulate narratives about the ongoing crimes of settler colonialism that offer novel perspectives on the question of what is knowable—and by whom—under...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 143–153.
Published: 01 April 2022
... of Heidegger’s propositions yields clarification and company to the present investigation into Freud’s articulation of history and the historiographical operation. Heidegger’s essay builds around the Anaxamander Fragment as an index to Western Metaphysics, to Thinking, to Being. “History” is one strand...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (1): 24–51.
Published: 01 April 2012
..., and therefore in the imagination ofdemocracy, the colonized simply took to mod­ ern Western definitions.2 In other words, the political (not incidentally like the economic) appears by default as universal/global/modern, the corollary being that the particular and the alternative must necessarily, therefore...
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (2): 171–202.
Published: 01 October 2014
... the periphery to the center ofdisciplinary orthodoxy, transforming our understanding ofwell-established historiographical eras, while the teaching ofworld history has largely replaced that ofolder courses on Western Civilization at the undergraduate level.26 But while some world history is still fairly...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (1): 59–95.
Published: 01 April 2017
..., or chronologicalmethod. Nevertheless, the reference to Raleigh seems to imply that the broader context of the term as it was used by Blount points to the discovery and exploration ofnew and unknown worlds, not only geographi­ cally and culturally unfamiliar to Western civilization, but also temporally out of sync...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 166–191.
Published: 01 October 2023
..., biskaabiiyang is the concept unifying these different conceptions of time to an explicit project of decolonization. She situates this Anishinaabemowin word as a description of how Indigenous peoples, or colonized peoples more generally, change rather than imitate Euro-Western concepts while attending to a world...
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History of the Present (2015) 5 (1): 65–82.
Published: 01 April 2015
...: The Representation ofReality in Western Literature, was published in the fiftieth anniversary edition in 2003, the year of Said's death.4 So although Auer­ bach's proposals about world literature may not seem particularly relevant to the present context, my argument is that the intellectual formation he represented...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 193–208.
Published: 01 October 2021
...) show a desert landscape with no trace of the Nile, which would have been hidden from view, its seasonal waters reduced (Roehrig). Typical of the Orientalist aesthetic, these representations of the temple generally exclude humans. The Western European visitors to the site and their visual...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (1): 57–87.
Published: 01 April 2018
... by the West as its most respected and cherished instrument ofcivilization, was also the West's most vital and effective instrument ofempire during its genocidal conquest and colonization of the non-Western peoples of the New World, the American Indians:u, Indeed, multiple histories-ofbroken treaties, re­...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 200–218.
Published: 01 October 2012
... by the horror ofpoverty, but in a very selective way, particularly for the Western and middle-class viewers for whom the video is made.The video visually attributes residential crowding, lack of clean water, TB, poor hygiene, disease, and living on the street specifically to brothels, prostitution, and sex...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 80–102.
Published: 01 April 2022
... endless elaborations of the historian’s unruly, subjective investments in the past. The early insights of psychoanalysis helped Marxist and Progressive historians, including Benjamin, to dispel the Rankean naivete that had come to dominate Western historiography since the late nineteenth century. Yet...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (2): 222–244.
Published: 01 October 2024
... the Western understandings of recognition (based on the example of Germany), it did not consider the power asymmetries involved in having these discussions in a denialist context. Given the present temporal impasse when art was concerned vis-à-vis the unrepresentability of the events, the question...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 205–211.
Published: 01 October 2013
... and gender in Western political thought. The edited volume, Illusio n ofConsent: Engaging with Carole Pateman, featuring contributions from Jane Mansbridge, Moira Gatens, Anne Phillips, Robert E. Goodin, Alan Ryan, Philip Pettit, and others, is testimony to her range ofinfluence. We still need language...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 April 2023
... Peninsula, while offering multiple historical potentialities, is also today the place from which the Saudi Arabian regime funds and arms a devastating war on Yemen as well as a global counterrevolution. For many in North America and Western Europe, the pandemic inspired new temporal understandings...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 146–154.
Published: 01 October 2016
... between two discrepant empires, the Portuguese and the British, principally in the western states of Goa and Maharasthra. Available colonial records register the presence ofthese devadasis as early as the seventeenth century in Portuguese India, predictably describing them as depraved bailadeiras...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 152–192.
Published: 01 October 2021
... something they had never seen before, which angered and frightened them: meetings in the vernacular, often with thousands of attendees, and often directed not only at students and vakils but also at farmers, laborers, and others outside the traditional caste/class boundaries of the Western-educated elites...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 119–151.
Published: 01 October 2021
... about events in very distant pasts. A key motive is to overcome the exclusion of those whom modern Western history writing had, for some two hundred years, deemed to be “without history,” indigenous peoples in the contemporary world, and those in the past of humanity who had lived before “history” ever...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 4–33.
Published: 01 April 2022
... difference of Western modernity, namely, the Atlantic slave trade. Spillers thus replaces the mythic event of Oedipal incest with the historical event of kinship annihilation: in doing so, she also names race, rather than sex, as the foundational difference that structures modern identity. For Spillers, race...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 119–139.
Published: 01 October 2013
... on the basis of what he per­ ceived to be a straightforward empirical contrast apparent inhisday. On the one hand, the countries of Western and Southern Europe, such as France, England, Germany, Spain, and Italy, had successfully-if through different processes-established nations on the basis of carefully...
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (2): 115–142.
Published: 01 October 2014
... certain historiography of the communist past, and in this project, both Western and East European academics have perhaps unwittingly obliged, as long as theEuropean Union provides the funds.It is ironic that the present day 117 A Tale of"Two Totalitarianisms" historiography of the communist past is so...