Comparative Studies in Society & History journal publishes multidisciplinary research, cultural and area studies, and innovative ventures in theory and methods.
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Apr 10
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.
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Jun 8
Our new On the Syllabus is "a pilgrimage across contemporary and classic CSSH essays examining the roles that aesthetics, circulation, markets, colonial encounters, infrastructures, violence, & place-making play in shaping the material life of #religion."
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May 28
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."
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May 27
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!
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May 27
"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."
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May 22
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
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ALT A soil conditioner testing site near FELDA Bukit Goh (photo by author).
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May 22
"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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May 21
Nicholas McGee's "Two Journeys into #Diaspora: Qing and British Imperial Investigations in the Dutch East Indies and Australia" is out on FirstView!
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May 17
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
May 15
Head to #FirstView for @ellen_nye's "Money on Trial: Performances of Value and Authority in #Ottoman Istanbul during the Age of Global Silver."
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ALT A depiction of the furnace and scales under the portico of the Imperial Council Hall from an album of illustrations, ca. 1586, Vienna, Austrian National Library, Cod. 8615, f. 134v.
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May 15
Head to #FirstView for @ellen_nye's "Money on Trial: Performances of Value and Authority in #Ottoman Istanbul during the Age of Global Silver."
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ALT A depiction of the furnace and scales under the portico of the Imperial Council Hall from an album of illustrations, ca. 1586, Vienna, Austrian National Library, Cod. 8615, f. 134v.
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May 14
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!
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May 13
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."
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ALT 1979 Comité leaflet entitled “The Mexican Government Lies.” UACM, CAMENA, Fondo Comité Eureka, exp. 89, vol. 1. Author’s photo, March 2020.
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May 11
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.
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May 8
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."
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Apr 29
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!
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Apr 20
Congratulations to @celkhachab, whose book Constructing the Achievement State is now out!
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Apr 10
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.
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Apr 3
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."
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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."
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