CSSH

Comparative Studies in Society & History journal publishes multidisciplinary research, cultural and area studies, and innovative ventures in theory and methods.

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Our latest issue is here! The April edition features essays by @Reem_AbouElFadl, @jeffbilik, Charlotte Ciavarella, @onneshaghosh, @hershenz, Rao Mohsin Ali Noor, @AgaTommaso, Sam Wilby, and Gabriel Young.

https://t.co/H81Wi0RyhI

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Don't miss our latest Under the Rubric feature, "Performative Sovereignty: a conversation with Sam Wilby and Rao Mohsin Ali Noor about pyropolitics, animal sacrifice, and cosmic alignments across Indian and Ottoman polities."

https://t.co/Px6dKPq9z0

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"Through the humble banana, Paredes provides us with a window into the enduring structures of empire, desire, and dispossession that continue to shape the hills and lives of Mindanao long after the taste that conjured them has been forgotten."

https://t.co/DgycBr8zPT

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Congratulations to @pare_desu, whose "Topographies of Fungibility: Reinventing the Japanese Taste for Sweetness in the Philippine Highlands" has just been awarded the the Belasco Prize for Scholarly Excellence by @ASFS_org!

https://t.co/QJm9oLKYaz

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"This article follows activists and researchers brought into conflict through an REE processing facility, where research on commercial applications for post-processing wastes has been treated as a pathway to economic diversification and a threat to minoritized communities."

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New to FirstView: Tom Özden-Schilling's "Spiraling out in the Circular Economy: Movement and Belonging at a Malaysian Rare Earth Elements Refinery." #Mining #Malaysia

https://t.co/dL030AVoVa

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Nicholas McGee's "Two Journeys into #Diaspora: Qing and British Imperial Investigations in the Dutch East Indies and Australia" is out on FirstView!

https://t.co/HyzpaTuu3j

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Küresel Gümüş Çağında Osmanlı İstanbul'unda Değer ve Otorite Performansları: Paranın Yargılanması
Nye, para politikasını padişah, sadrazam, yabancı tüccarlar, sarraflar ve sıradan şehir halkı arasında sürekli yeniden üretilen bir güç, itimat ve meşruiyet mücadelesi olarak okuyor

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Head to #FirstView for @ellen_nye's "Money on Trial: Performances of Value and Authority in #Ottoman Istanbul during the Age of Global Silver."

https://t.co/xLgIMEwp0S

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Yukiko Koga's "Post-imperial Reckoning: Transitional Injustice and the Unmaking of the Japanese Empire in East Asia," on what it means to reckon with imperial violence decades after the #JapaneseEmpire’s demise in 1945, is out on #FirstView!

https://t.co/fVzEQDpxWd

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Vanessa Freije's ""The Word of the State against Ours”: The Right to Know and State Terror in 1970s #Mexico" "contends that the struggle over information and recognition became the central battlefield for negotiating state violence and opening in Mexico."

https://t.co/liKj2atQVu

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Alice Yao's "From Disorder to Distinction: #Lactose Intolerance and the #Racialization of Digestion in Postwar Medicine (1950–1980)" argues that despite a post-racial agenda, research on lactose digestion produced a normative discourse around whiteness.

https://t.co/YtBLDG1Ykd

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Now on FirstView, Yves Winter's "Imperial Nostalgia as Patrimony: Shipwrecks and Treasures in the Colonial Museum" shows how two Spanish museum exhibitions "convert recovered colonial treasure into national patrimony and thereby stage imperial nostalgia."

https://t.co/cN3fu3EErP

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Don't miss our latest scholarship! Mina Khanlarzadeh's "Epistemic Translation of Modernity: Negotiating Science and Technology under Semi-Colonial Conditions" is out on FirstView!

https://t.co/Yg8AffbikF

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Congratulations to @celkhachab, whose book Constructing the Achievement State is now out!

https://t.co/QJm9oLKYaz

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Learn more about our authors here:

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Our latest issue is here! The April edition features essays by @Reem_AbouElFadl, @jeffbilik, Charlotte Ciavarella, @onneshaghosh, @hershenz, Rao Mohsin Ali Noor, @AgaTommaso, Sam Wilby, and Gabriel Young.

https://t.co/H81Wi0RyhI

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If you missed part 1 in the series, find it here:

https://t.co/obN6JGJxQo

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As promised, we are excited to share @JElyachar's response to the six CSSH authors who engaged with "the semicivilized" in last month's In Dialogue! Don't miss "More #Ottoman Heuristics – A Seventh Take on the Semicivilized."

https://t.co/A13BffgTxU

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New to FirstView, Alessandro Rippa's "When is a #Frontier? Nostalgia and Aspirations at #China’s Borderlands with #Burma and #Laos."

https://t.co/ve56IqMVKU

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Our latest is Kabir Tambar's "A History of Clamor: Historical Time and the Late #Ottoman Surreal," examining "a scene of late Ottoman parliamentary politics characterized by verbal disruption, raucous applause, and strident indignation: in short, clamor."

https://t.co/54H2Ee6lAC