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History of the Present (2018) 8 (2): 140–176.
Published: 01 October 2018
...Andrew Zimmerman Copyright © 2018 University of Illinois Press 2018 Guinea Sam Nightingale and Magic Marx in Civil War Missouri: Provincializing Global History and Decolonizing Theory Andrew Zimmerman Sometime in the 1850s, Guinea Sam Nightingale was shot from a cannon in West Africa, landing...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 157–165.
Published: 01 April 2020
... with what has come before, with what already “makes sense” (i.e., common sense). Structures of temporality, politics, or even identity that do not conform to convention are ruled out or never seen at all. The historian equipped with a background in theory is attuned to the navel of the dream, to the places...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 166–168.
Published: 01 April 2020
...—such as that of antiquity, medieval, and modernity—inherited from their colonial textbooks. All of these lessons in turn led some to rethink their inheritance of European critical theories, or to revise them with reference to South Asian materials. I certainly date to this moment my willingness to reframe Foucauldian...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 183–186.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Andrew Zimmerman Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 The “Theses on Theory and History” call, crucially, for a two-way relationship between history and theory, for “theoretically grounded history and historically grounded theory”: history grounded by theory, not merely decorated...
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Published: 01 October 2022
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (1): 1–3.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Marianne Constable; Sylvia Schafer Copyright © 2018 University of Illinois Press 2018 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Introduction: Law at the Intersection ofHistory and Theory Marianne Constable...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 20–49.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Alys Eve Weinbaum Abstract This article theorizes the reproductive dimensions of racial capitalism. It begins by bringing into conversation Black Marxist theories of racial capitalism and Marxist feminist theories of social and biological reproduction proffered by Cedric Robinson and Silvia...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 101–116.
Published: 01 April 2020
... understood imperialism to be historically. This essay looks at two understandings of imperialism, one coming out of Marxist theory and another out of a Foucauldian understanding of power as developed by Hardt and Negri in their book Empire (2000), and then goes on to show that both are helpful, though...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 253–278.
Published: 01 October 2021
... and exemplars through the prism of liberalism and toleration. These three moves take Islam out of history. The dislocation of Islam winds through three disciplinary moments that track political theory’s investments in philology, teleology, and philosophy. The article concludes by pointing toward critical...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 119–151.
Published: 01 October 2021
... to be achieved in and by historical discourse. At least some of the more conceptually profound challenges that accounts of “deep history”—of very distant pasts—pose to historical discourse have to do with pursuits of this norm. Historical theory has the potential of responding to some of these challenges...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 34–59.
Published: 01 April 2022
...David L. Eng Abstract This article explores unexamined links between psychic and political theories of trauma to investigate the constitution of victims deserving and undeserving of reparation as they emerge in the context of the Holocaust, Hiroshima, and the Nuremberg and Tokyo War Tribunals...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 257–280.
Published: 01 October 2020
... that these resources can sometimes be understood not merely as educational tools but also as digital commemorations of slave revolt. Finally, engaging with theory on monuments, memory, and history, this piece explains why digital commemorations existing in virtual space might productively acknowledge our discomfort...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (2): 149–169.
Published: 01 October 2011
... attachment to thinking and feeling athwart marks Sedgwick as one of poststructuralism's most cogent practitioners, even though she wrote lucid critiques ofsome ofthe key stances ofpoststructuralist theory (certain kinds ofFoucauldianism and Derridianism, in particular). Disarticulation is one name...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (1): 95–106.
Published: 01 April 2012
... reading" as formulated by a 2009 issue ofRepresentations. This seems like good news: no critical practice can maintain its vitality without continually questioning its theories ofreading. On a closer look, however, it turns out that these "new" ways ofreading rely on rather familiar indictments ofthe...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (2): 203–212.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Brian Connolly Copyright © 2019 University of Illinois Press 2019 The Subterranean Life of Repression Brian Connolly Ben Kafka wonders what happened to the concept of repression in critical theory and whether it is worth recuperating.It's a good and necessary ques­ tion, not least because...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 198–204.
Published: 01 October 2013
... attending a gender seminar organized by Joan Scott, and for the atmosphere ofnovelty, exploration, and overall ex­ citement in feminist studies. Though women's studies was already an estab­ lished subject in academia, and though feminist theories ofvarious strands were put forward, known, and widely...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 113–129.
Published: 01 April 2011
... second is more widely known. The Penn State Political Theory Controversy In 2006, the Political Science Department at Penn State University formally discontinued political theory as a major subfield for graduate students and moved to effectively eliminate political theory from its faculty ranks.2 In some...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 1–3.
Published: 01 April 2020
... decade, the journal has provided space not only for historians but also for others in the disciplines of the humanities and the social sciences, demonstrating, we would suggest, the central role history plays for those disciplines. The articles engage theory, but they do not offer abstract...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 176–182.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., MA : MIT Press , 1997 . Shannon Claude E. , and Weaver Warren . A Mathematical Theory of Communication . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 1949 . Wiener Norbert . The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society . New York : Houghton Mifflin , 1950...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 205–211.
Published: 01 October 2013
... was writing her book, years when A Theory ofJustice presided over much of the scholarship in political theory and a renewed market fundamentalism took hold in Anglo-American political culture.5 The revival ofcontract theory in Anglo-American political philosophy matters, for Pateman excavates a sexual...