Queering Archives: Intimate Tracings

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Queering Archives: Intimate Tracings

This collection highlights how archives form as we intimately trace the contours of bodies and longings, including our own, in the past and present. Contributors unfold the queer archive as an evasive and dynamic time and space animated by the tensions of desire, knowledge production, absence, presence, […]

Sound Politics: Critically Listening to the Past

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This issue of Radical History Review explores sound as a critical register of social and political life. The feature essays illustrate the long history of contested soundscapes and offer methodological insights into how we can begin to hear and incorporate them into historical analysis.

Hearing the History of Political Protest Michael Sizer […]

Queering Archives: Historical Unravelings

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This issue of Radical History Review explores how activists, archivists, and scholars— in engaging grassroots and institutional LGBT archiving efforts and questions of digitization, systems of classification, migration and paperwork, criminal records, postcolonialism, performance, photography, museums, and historical methods—have radically opened […]

The Global Antiapartheid Movement, 1946–1994

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On the twentieth anniversary of South Africa’s first free elections, this issue of Radical History Review revisits the struggle against apartheid from a transnational perspective.

Reflections  John Saul offers his retrospective view of the South African liberation struggle, concluding that it is not over yet. Alex Lichtenstein interviews Sietse […]

The Fictions of Finance

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This issue of Radical History Review takes stock of finance capital and its operations, both material and symbolic, and surveys recent developments in the historiography of capitalism.

Features
Courtney Fullilove reads the penny press to reveal how popular critiques of commodity speculation ignited the New York City flour riot of 1837. Alyosha […]

Radical Histories in Digital Culture

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This issue of Radical History Review explores how digital culture has reshaped access to and control of information and restructured how we view ourselves in relation to the social and the political, rewiring where, how, and with whom we engage in political action.

Framing the Contested History of Digital Culture

Lyell Davies and Elena […]

Water: History, Power, Crisis

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This issue of Radical History Review historicizes the processes or problems that shape our contemporary water issues. In particular, we examine multiple histories of water through the concept of crisis. As the articles in this issue describe, strategies to alleviate a water crisis oftentimes strengthened existing forms of power, while dislocating […]

Haitian Lives/Global Perspectives

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This issue of Radical History Review extends the discussion of Haitian history rekindled by the earthquake of 2010 and highlights how Haiti and Haitians are inextricable from world history.

Features
Paul Cheney reconstructs the daily life and economic fragility of a plantation in Saint-Domingue in the context of the hemisphere’s late […]