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History of the Present (2015) 5 (2): 187–199.
Published: 01 October 2015
...Iris van der Tuin Interventions: On Thinking MakingTime (For) Duration: Thinking at the Contemporary University Iris van der Tuin A few years ago I watched Margarethe von Trotta's period film HannahArendt (2012) in anAmsterdam cinema. The film, set between1960 and1964, follows Arendt as she...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 141–165.
Published: 01 October 2023
... are conventionally understood. Colleges and universities in the British colonies and what became the United States, including Harvard, William & Mary, and Dartmouth, were founded and funded with the intention that they would function as a vital technology through which the nation-state and white Christian...
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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 (2015) 5 (2): 109–136.
Published: 01 October 2015
...Massimiliano Tomba 1793: The Neglected Legacy ofInsurgent Universality Massimiliano Tomba Insurgent universality refers to the excess ofequality and freedom over the juridicalframe ofuniversal human rights. It announces a politics beyond the state. While the histories ofhuman rights usually give...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 241–269.
Published: 01 October 2022
... that projects to provincialize or repudiate the universalism of modern thought, as well as the translations this universalism enables, tend to reinscribe the very translational problematic these projects aim to mitigate or overturn. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2022...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (1): 23–52.
Published: 01 April 2021
... privatization policies sometimes puts them in direct confrontation with urban women reformers, whose claims in favor of a universal feminism reveal a value system outside local customary understandings of morality, gender, and land. This article aims to account for the emerging female leadership...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 101–121.
Published: 01 April 2023
... Arabia, one that demolition and historical revision—now mundane universal practices—seek to permanently erase. Doing so also delivers profound lessons on the figure of the migrant as scholar, on the imperative of transcending national history, and on thinking of history itself as punctured by continuous...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (2): 193–221.
Published: 01 October 2024
... that Hannah Arendt and others have developed based on post–World War accounts of refugees. Drawing on the first US refugee act in 1798, the essay moves beyond the iconic universalisms of natural rights and the abstract model of citizenship associated with it by identifying a grievance-based tradition...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 46–66.
Published: 01 April 2020
... influence of real estate after black emancipation. Real estate enabled post-slavery black dispossession and also facilitated the continuation of the United States as a settler empire. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 slavery empire capital real estate settler colonialism...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 113–129.
Published: 01 April 2011
...Wendy Brown Interventions Neoliberalized Knowledge Wendy Brown Only a few years ago, "crisis of the humanities" might have referred to the long slow decline in the numbers of university students studying the humanities, or to one or another element ofthe culture wars-identity politics...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 20–49.
Published: 01 April 2024
... and productive labor. In this way I signal (re)productive labor’s actual domain in the past (under slavery) and in the present (under biocapitalism) and highlight the evolving array of (re)productive commodities that are for sale transnationally. Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 alysw...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 81–107.
Published: 01 April 2024
... on sexuality. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 slavery sexual violence history of sexuality reproduction protest Late in the narrative of her life, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), Harriet Jacobs recounts a chance meeting between two...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 275–283.
Published: 01 October 2023
... the spectacle of transgression. The essay argues that this spectacle works to obscure the material conditions of higher education in general and of history in particular. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 presentism higher education spectacle austerity history...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 119–151.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., accords no factual status to historical writing, which it relegates instead to the status of a particular genre of literary text. 2 In this contest, both sides share the norm of homogeneity as imposed on the world—the universe of objects—that the historical text discusses. The idea of history...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 April 2024
... might be altogether refused in the future. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. slavery human reproduction racial...
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (2): 171–202.
Published: 01 October 2014
...Ian Hesketh The Story ofBig History Ian Hesketh The goal is not to read a book; the goal is to read the story taking place all around us. -Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry, The Universe Story No one and nothing lives a story. -Hayden White, Tropics ofDiscourse Consilience has long been the dream...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 283–297.
Published: 01 October 2022
... at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization . Minneapolis : Minnesota University Press , 1996 . Bauman Zygmunt . Identity . Cambridge : Polity , 2004 . Bose Sugata . A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 4–33.
Published: 01 April 2022
[email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 racial capitalism Oedipus complex racialization rape Atlantic World Perhaps we could argue that the “race” matrix was the fundamental interdiction within the enabling discourse of founding psychoanalytical theory and practice...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (1): 63–86.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Casey Shoop The Bones in the Concept: Big History, Theodor Adorno and Second Nature Casey Shoop With the evidence more or less in on the precarious climatological state of the planet, the desire for universal history, as the popular press avers, has returned. Its latest incarnation has been called...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 253–278.
Published: 01 October 2021
... who traveled to fight in Bosnia did so in the name of humanitarian intervention, a deterritorialized global Islam (Devji), and Muslim solidarity and universalism (Li), not for a national doctrine of expansionist jihād , the consolidation of a singular geography, or even reclaiming a country...
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