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By Contributing Editor Kristin Buhrow Most commonly associated with Medieval Europe, the term “serf” is commonly used to describe a certain type of peasant class with a particular set of living conditions. From the European Middle Ages, academic discourse in… Continue Reading →
by contributing writer Philipp Sperner While the need to study notions of power, sovereignty and rule from a global perspective has been widely acknowledged, the research is all too often limited by its strong dependence on the disciplinary framework of… Continue Reading →
Contributing Editor Disha Karnad Jani interviews Ethan Kleinberg, Joan Wallach Scott, and Gary Wilder, the authors of Theses on Theory and History. Please click for the full conversation.
By contributing writer Jonathon Catlin In May historians Ethan Kleinberg, Joan Wallach Scott, and Gary Wilder, together known as the Wild On Collective, released “Theses on Theory and History,” a widely-discussed manifesto on historical methodology. On October 8, this “cabal… Continue Reading →
By Contributing Editor Simon Brown In this podcast, I’m speaking with Eli Cook, assistant professor of history at the University of Haifa, about his new book, The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life (Harvard University… Continue Reading →
By Guest Contributor Molly Nebiolo The roots of contemporary botany have been traced back to the botanical systems laid out by Linnaeus in the eighteenth century. Yet going back in further in time reveals some of the key figures who… Continue Reading →
By guest contributor Robert Koch After two world wars, the financial and ideological underpinnings of European colonial domination in the world were bankrupt. Yet European governments responded to aspirations for national self-determination with undefined promises of eventual decolonization. Guerrilla insurgencies… Continue Reading →
Disha: Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination by Mark Rifkin is a work of political and literary theory that re-interprets the axes and language of past and present as experienced by settlers and Native peoples in the Americas…. Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Milinda Banerjee Spectres of dead kings are haunting the world today. In a 2015 interview, Emmanuel Macron declared that since the death of Louis XVI, there has been a vacuum at the heart of French politics: an… Continue Reading →
By guest contributor Lidia Plaza On my way to Covent Garden this summer, I spotted a Muji store and popped inside. A few months earlier I had picked up a pair of Muji socks in Terminal 5 of JFK, which… Continue Reading →
