...Leah DeVun; Michael Jay McClure The archive has been theorized as unstable and even fever-ridden, but what might it mean to deploy it in ways that counter its logic or to activate it in ways that we might call queer? Using the example of Leah DeVun's photographic exploration of the ONE National Gay...

... variations on the concept of abstraction and presents specific forms of abstraction — real abstraction, lived abstraction, and second-order abstraction — that might help humanities scholars specify how and when finance is abstract and how and when it is concrete. Finally, through a reading of the discourse...

...Don Mitchell This article reviews three books that make important contributions to our understanding of how city streets and sidewalks are structured, and thus what their social and political potential might and might not be. Each of the books shows how streets and sidewalks are produced through...

... and debates, the article considers the challenges of overcoming ethical disengagement in the classroom, and — in this context — both the advantages and disadvantages of an online learning environment, in a course that aimed specifically to generate answers to these questions: After the earthquake, how might...

... is the Primeiro Comando da Capital, or PCC, a prisoner organization that at times has evaded state violence as effectively as some quilombos did in their day. This uneven set illuminates possibilities for social organization that might escape the vicious disciplinary and labor regimes of racial capitalism...

...Gilda L. Ochoa; Daniela Pineda While teaching about race/ethnicity and class from a critical pedagogical standpoint, not only might we encounter student resistance to learning about systems of domination, but we should also be aware of the ways that power, privilege, and exclusion in the larger...

... to represent apartheid? What might a transnational public history of apartheid look like, and what are the challenges? How do the BCRI's transnational exhibits reflect the site's notions of the United States' role in world history? These global exhibits offer insight into how public historical narratives...

... of liberation that simultaneously declared solidarity while also disrupting narratives of US exceptionalism—what we might term the articulation of Palestine in the Puerto Rican political imaginary. Ultimately, it contends that we move beyond the aura of exceptionality that so often characterizes Puerto Rico's...

..., unplanned disruptive sounds, and the significance sound might have in emotional learning. © 2015 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2015 Teaching Radical History Symphony of Sirens Uses and Problems of Sound in Teaching and Learning about Music and Politics Catherine...

... how to tell their own stories so that they might write their own lives into the historical record, on their own terms. The Internet provides a tremendous opportunity to disseminate these valuable oral history interviews. This article explores the conflict between the liberationist impulse to uncover...

... and violence. Women in Graaff-Reinet, however, had experiences of violence that did not fit comfortably with ideas about the relationships between violence and gender held by colonial officials. This essay explores aspects of this discomfort and calls for further exploration of what such discomfort might mean...

... of transformative justice that rejects violence and the understanding that transformation might not come without injury to those who do violence on behalf of the state. Sex worker abolitionists seek resources for navigating this tactical ambivalence in Black radical, decolonial, and queer and feminist traditions...

...Elihu Rubin Each fall and spring, the author asks his students to dérive , to engage in the Situationist practice of “drift” — a short definition might be to wander on foot without itinerary. The dérive is introduced as the third research method in a series that explores social meanings within...

..., the article highlights the particularities of our own contemporary and asks a series of questions about how the present moment might inspire us to approach anew late medieval Ottoman architectural practices. Copyright © 2018 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc. 2018 Ottoman Bernard...

..., correct a partial claim, set straight a story? How do the politics surrounding institutional discourses of a minor threat, especially at the crash with race or gender, displace or defuse that threat through its integration into a politics, history, or archive? How might the specific difference...

...Amro Sadeldeen Abstract One of the stated goals of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement is “equality in Israel.” This might imply a partnership between Palestinians and Israelis in promoting the movement’s goal. Yet core Palestinian BDS activists diverge in their perspectives...

... of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), attempted something new: to move beyond professional genealogies and traditions in order to try and critically apprehend the self-proclaimed “new” science of data, which has strong ties to what some might call “scientific entrepreneurship” and which, as part...

... and methods used by food historians might be applied to the food-movement dialogue. Using John Soluri's Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States and Paul Freedman's Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination as examples, O'Neill argues...

...Marc Stein This essay considers the archival practices, historiographic habits, and political orientations that might explain the resistance to or rejection of the notion that sex radicalism, defined broadly to include various challenges to sexual respectability, was an important component of US...

... to (re)theorize the process of “queering the archive.” The Mormon example is used to demonstrate how scholars might think through the contingency and complicity of queerness with various dominant formations. The author suggests that in the case of the LDS archive, queerness emerges not as a subjectivity...