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Freedom’s Surprise: Two Paths Through Slavery’s Archives
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 133–145.
Published: 01 October 2016
...David Kazanjian Freedom's Surprise: Two Paths Through Slavery's Archives David Kazanjian Unfortunately I have not discovered a way of deranging the archive so that it might recall the content of a girl's life or reveal a truer picture, nor have I succeeded in prying open the dead book, which...
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A Tale of “Two Totalitarianisms”: The Crisis of Capitalism and the Historical Memory of Communism
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (2): 115–142.
Published: 01 October 2014
...Kristen Ghodsee A Tale of "Two Totalitarianisms": The Crisis ofCapitalism and the Historical Memory ofCommunism Kristen Ghodsee On June 3, 2008, a group of conservative EasternEuropean politicians and intellectuals signed the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism in the Czech...
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Settler Colonial Studies and/as the Transnational Western: Resistance and Representation in Academic Discourse and Cultural Production
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (1): 80–105.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Alex Trimble Young Abstract The article explores contemporary debates regarding the representation of Indigenous resistance in the field of settler colonial studies by putting the work of Australian theorist Patrick Wolfe into conversation with the political allegories articulated in two...
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Seeing and Feeling in a Life In-Between
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 117–121.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Antoinette Burton Abstract This article introduces a roundtable that consists of short reflections on Stuart Hall’s posthumously published memoir, Familiar Stranger: A Life between Two Islands . Written in collaboration with Bill Schwarz and completed after his death, the genre-defying text...
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Of Taming Carnal Desire: Imperial Roots of Legislating Sexual Practices in Contemporary Ethiopia
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 84–100.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Serawit B. Debele Abstract Focusing on Ethiopia, an empire off-center, this article argues against dominant narratives that link the regulation of sexual practices to colonial (Western) imperial relations. Within this context, the paper investigates struggles over the past by contrasting two...
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Invisible Strangers, or Romani History Reconsidered
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 187–207.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Kristina L. Richardson Abstract This essay proposes that the invisibility of so-called Gypsies in Middle Eastern and Central Asian historiography derives from two linked phenomena. First, the work of nineteenth- and twentieth-century European and North American philologists, medievalists...
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Land Rights and Women’s Rights in Morocco: Cooperation and Contestation among Rural and Urban Women Activists
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (1): 23–52.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Souad Eddouada Abstract Over the last two decades, women leaders known as sulāliyāt from various parts of rural and semiurban Morocco, have been in the vanguard of local contestations over the privatization of communally held land. The stand taken by these rural women against neoliberal...
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Just In Time: Managing Fear and Anxiety at the End of the World
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 60–79.
Published: 01 April 2022
... Freud and Octave Mannoni, Paul Gilroy and Sylvia Wynter, and Frank Wilderson and Bruno Latour—as they grapple with two intimations: that the subject picturing a “world without us” is neurotic and that alternative historical sensibilities may lie on the other side of our apocalyptic imagination...
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Seizing the Alterity of Futures: Toward a Philosophy of History across Afrofuturism and Indigenous Futurism
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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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Injury and Value: Black Mothering in Slavery and Its Afterlife
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 138–155.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Halle-Mackenzie Ashby; Jessica Marie Johnson Abstract This essay explores two historical subjects, Catharina, an enslaved woman living and working in eighteenth-century New Orleans, and Ruth, a free field laborer in post-emancipation Barbados. Through a careful reading of their different...
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Digital Commemorations of Slave Revolt
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 257–280.
Published: 01 October 2020
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Zrima: The Colonial Flow
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 219–243.
Published: 01 October 2023
...Amir Reicher Abstract This article is about a particular kind of settler-colonial phenomenology. It is based on almost two years of anthropological fieldwork in the West Bank, during which the author lived in an illegal Jewish outpost settlement in the Judean Desert frontier. Despite being...
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The New Old Imperialism in the Arabian Peninsula: An Intervention
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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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Front Matter
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): i–iv.
Published: 01 October 2012
... Copyright © 2012 University of Illinois Press 2012 VOLUME TWO NUMBER TWO FALL 2012 History ofthe Present A JOURNAL OF CRITICAL HISTORY For authorization to photocopy from HistoryofthePresent for usesexceeding those permitted by Section 107 and 108 ofthe United States Copyright Law, contact...
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The Dead Book Revisited
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 208–215.
Published: 01 October 2016
...? How is the obligation to witness their deaths any different than what is required to encounter death today? The lives of two girls are recorded in the official annals ofBritish law and parliamentary debate in the moment theymet their death. The meager biography here assumes the form ofan obituary...
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Writing History: Thinking beyond the Past in the Present
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 146–151.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Kennetta Hammond Perry Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 In the preface to Familiar Stranger , Bill Schwarz acknowledges that while the book originated from a series of conversations between him and Stuart Hall and therefore represents the interplay of two voices, in its...
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (2): i–iv.
Published: 01 October 2014
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): i–iv.
Published: 01 October 2016
... VOLUME SIX NUMBER TWO FALL 2016 History ofthe Present A JOURNAL OF CRITICAL HISTORY Brian Connolly and Marisa Fuentes For authorizationto photocopy from History ofthePresentforuses exceeding those permitted by Section 107 and 108 ofthe United States Copyright Law,contactthe CopyrightClearance...
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