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History of the Present (2012) 2 (1): 71–77.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Antoinette Burton Roundtable: Amitav Ghosh's Sea ofPoppies Amitav Ghosh's World Histories from Below Antoinette Burton New modalities are definitely coming to the fore. -Baboo Nob Kissin, Sea ofPoppies (2008) [It] is not a story with a happy ending. No story about political society ever...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (1): 59–95.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Helge Jordheim Synchronizing the World: Synchronism as Historiographical Practice, Then and Now HelgeJordheim It is a familiar sight: in most cities in theworldthere will be darkbrownvans navigating the crowded streets, whilethey proudly announce their purpose, in yellow letters on both sides...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (1): 88–116.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Samera Esmeir On Becoming Less ofthe World Samera Esmeir A new word entered the English language in 1789, and soon found its way to other languages. But its effects on juridico-political life, as well as on the contending concept ofthe world, remain uncharted. This word was "inter­ national...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 60–79.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Michelle Stephens Abstract In the early 2000s, Dipesh Chakrabarty powerfully defined the historical terms at stake in the shift from the postcolonial to the Anthropocene era, arguing that the posthuman image of a world without us profoundly contradicts historical practices for visualizing time...
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (1): 75–96.
Published: 01 April 2014
...Christopher Taylor "Most Holy Virgin Assist Me": Subaltem Transnationalism and Positively Possible Worlds Christopher Taylor In 1802, a young free mulatta named Louisa Calderon confessed to the authorities of British Trinidad that she had assisted Carlos Gonzales, also a free mulatto, in the theft...
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figure 3. The self-regulation of female sexuality from “A Model for the Homeostatic Regulation of Female Sexual Behavior,” World Journal of Psychosynthesis 1, no. 2 ( 1969 ), 73. More
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figure 2. Bottle feeding of patient (close-up) from “Television-Linked Mental Health Mini-Community at Michigan Institute of Psychosynthesis,” World Journal of Psychosynthesis 2, no. 7 ( 1970 ): 29. More
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figure 4. Information flow chart of television-linked cybernetic system from Tien’s exhibit at the International Congress of Cybernetics in London in September 1969. From “Psychosynthesis: TV-Linked Cybernetic System of Psychotherapy,” World Journal of Psychosynthesis 1, no. 2 (1969): 77 . More
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 138–155.
Published: 01 April 2024
... but overlapping legal petitions against the planters who worked to control their labor, this essay seeks to distill a shared battle around Black mothering and to reconsider what it means to mother in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Atlantic world, respectively. In so doing, this essay contributes...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 4–33.
Published: 01 April 2022
... proposes that dominant models of binary gender are ineluctably racialized, created by the property regimes and systemic sexual violence of colonial modernity that emerged in the Atlantic World of the eighteenth century—a space defined by the structures of labor, race, sexuality, and capital accumulation...
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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 (2021) 11 (1): 2–22.
Published: 01 April 2021
... that was more than literal—a mysterious Black formation, of unguessed dimensions and certain danger, beneath the world as they knew it. Finally, the article asks what we can glean from the literature of Mammoth Cave about the body of Black thought it sought to disavow: the alternative relations between race...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 103–126.
Published: 01 April 2022
... at recovery, this article reads QAnon as a part of a symptomatology of the social world. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 conspiracy paranoia QAnon play neoliberalism There is no freedom without opinions that diverge from reality, but such divergence...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 283–297.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Micheal A. Rumore Abstract The burgeoning field of Indian Ocean studies has emerged as a repository of universalist political aspirations, often inspired by the Non-Aligned imagination of the Third World era. In particular, the notion of Indian Ocean “cosmopolitanism,” as both an object of desire...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 34–59.
Published: 01 April 2022
.... While genocide and nuclear catastrophe oriented the world imagination toward the specter of planetary annihilation, the “final solution” and the atomic bombings also cleave from one another in significant ways. In the space of postwar Europe, the history of the Holocaust is settled: Nazis were...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 219–243.
Published: 01 October 2023
... of the flow that one is able to understand what drives the settler-colonial practices of this new generation of postideological settlers. More than a worldview, the flow is an existential force that animates these people’s settler-colonial way of being in the world. In disclosing the flow , this article also...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 245–264.
Published: 01 October 2023
...Nadia Abu El-Haj Abstract In 1984, Edward Said argued that Palestinians had not yet gained “permission to narrate,” that is, a Palestinian national narrative of exile and colonization remained unintelligible in the Euro-American world. Forty years hence, much has changed. And yet, this essay asks...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 9–27.
Published: 01 April 2020
... the tensions between different modes of colonial and imperial rule play out in rural settings. We foreground the vantage point of the rural by focusing on a Transylvanian village in 1920 as a global countryside. Works Cited Abu-Lughod Janet L. Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 155–182.
Published: 01 October 2022
...figure 3. The self-regulation of female sexuality from “A Model for the Homeostatic Regulation of Female Sexual Behavior,” World Journal of Psychosynthesis 1, no. 2 ( 1969 ), 73. ...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 241–269.
Published: 01 October 2022
... that attention to local differences might foster a more just and equitable balance between the necessity of a universalistic political perspective on a globalized planet and sensitivity to the rooted specificity of diverse life-worlds. It is this translational problematic of modernity that we attend...