CSSH Journal

CSSH mourns the loss of Vicente Rafael, esteemed scholar and generous contributor to our journal.

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Don't miss our follow-up conversation with Cooper and Krishan Kumar about what's next for decolonization!

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New to FirstView, don't miss @jbilik.bsky.social's "Citizenship Under the Plan: Managing Migrant Worker Inclusion in Late-Soviet #Moscow." #Migration #SovietUnion

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Congratulations to Filipe Calvão upon the publication of his new co-edited volume, How Transparency Works: Ethnographies of a Global Value.

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Essays for all seasons! CSSH highlights the most-downloaded essays of each of our 2025 issues. Congratulations to @arunabhghosh.bsky.social, Masayuki Ueno, Marco Garrido, and Frederick Cooper!

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Frederick Sefton Jenkins Wojnarowski's "Hirak and Hosha: Modalities of Collective Action in #Jordan in the Wake of the #ArabSpring" is now out on FirstView! #protest #tribes #Anthropology #History

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Newly out at CSSH: @sholleykline.bsky.social's "How the United Fruit Company Racialized Archaeological Labor in #Guatemala, 1910–1953." #OpenAccess #Archaeology

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From the abstract: ""By foregrounding Egyptians’ evolving affective solidarities with Palestine, this article challenges dominant narratives around the decline of Arab nationalism after 1967 and the rise of Islamism in its place."

Now out on FirstView, Reem Abou-El-Fadl's "Palestine in the 1972 Egyptian Student Uprising: Arab Solidarities of Principle and Affect." #AcademicSky #History

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I cannot recall the last time I was so excited to read an article. A thousand congratulations to Reem Abou-El-Fadl on this important, open-access publication. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

An artificial mountain is presented to the Sultan, Surnāme-i Hümāyūn, Topkapı Palace Museum Hazine no. 1344, fols. 58b–59a. Reproduced with permission of The Directorate of National Palaces, Istanbul, Türkiye.

Our latest, Rao Mohsin Ali Noor's "The Pyropolitics of Sacred Kingship: #Fireworks & the Performance of Messianic Sovereignty in the Early Modern #Mediterranean," argues for "courtly pyrotechnics as a means of communicating the “wholly other” nature of the sovereign."

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CSSH celebrates a new book by Leslie James! Don't miss The Moving Word: How the West African and Caribbean Press Shaped Black Political Thought, 1935–1960.

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This issue features work by Marcel Berni, Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez, @orenfalk.bsky.social, Maria Kastrinou, Piotr H. Kosicki, Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska, Stephanie V. Love, Hélène Quiniou, Sofía Rodríguez-López, Lucie Ryzova, Marlene Schäfers, and Arthur Shiwa Zárate!

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Start the year with a fresh issue of CSSH! Articles in this issue are grouped under the rubrics: The Social Lives of #Martyrs; #Spirit Movements; #Counterrevolutionary Knowledge; and Archives of #Bereavement.

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#AcademicSky #History #Anthropology

This month, we are celebrating new books by
@nanaoseiopare.bsky.social, Kevin P. Donovan, and Nana Osei-Opare!

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Saint culture, Martyr of Fascism by Angela Nebot. Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. Wikimedia Commons.

Our recent issues are replete with essays on death, martyrdom, and immortality. "#Martyrs and Memorials," our latest On the Syllabus by editorial intern Moniek van Rheenen, situates this scholarship within CSSH's rich archive on the subject.

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Mural depicting Iraqi people's resistance. Baghdad, 1959. (Photographer unknown, Wiki)

We've got more new scholarship on our website! Today, it's a can't-miss conversation between Fred Cooper and Krishan Kumar about #decolonization and what might come next: “The location of sovereignty is still in question.” #AcademicSky #History #AcademicChatter

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Basset, André, Vue des Magasins de la Compagnie des Indes à Pontichery, de l'Amiraute et de la Maison du Gouverneur, [Vers 1750-1785]. Cariatide, bibliothèque numérique de l'INHA, NUM VO Ori 12.

Our latest Behind the Scenes is here! Don't miss @renaudmorieux.bsky.social's "The Present is a Foreign Country," a reflection on categorization and #deportation in the past and present, and colonial documents as "dynamic and always in-the-making."

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Our newest Under (and Across!) the Rubric brings together letters by Foroogh Farhang, Marlene Schäfers, Maria Kastrinou, Lucie Ryzova, and Stephanie Love on graves, spirits, martyrs, mourning, reincarnation, curses - the intersections of life and death.

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The author browsing the book market.

"I never intended on writing history," writes Chihab El Khachab in our latest Behind the Scenes feature. Find out why his research on the Egyptian Ministry of Culture required going to the archives, and why those archives required an "ethnographer's flair."

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From the abstract: "This essay departs from extant studies of visual cultures of secular martyrdom or funerary portraiture framed by notions of commemoration, and instead stresses contingent presence grounded in the specific liminal temporality of the revolutionary process."

‘Ammar Abu Bakr’s wall of martyrs with wings, Muhammad Mahmoud Street, February 2012. Author’s photo.

Lucie Ryzova's "Portrait of a #Martyr as a Young Man: Social Lives of #Photographs in Revolutionary #Egypt" is open access and out on FirstView!

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What did Islamic justice look like for Venetian merchants trading in premodern Ottoman Empire?

My article in @csshjournal.bsky.social explores how inter-imperial entanglements & global trade shaped the production & application of Sharia in the 17th c. Ottoman Emp. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"By focusing on the sultan’s court of justice, the Imperial Council, & the Venetian merchants who appealed to it, this piece illustrates how Ottoman commercial interests & political concerns influenced the production and application of Islamic law (Sharia) in Ottoman courts for European merchants."

Don't miss @tommasoaga.bsky.social's "Ottoman Justice and Political Economy of Empires: #Venetian Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Courts," out on FirstView and Open Access!

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Colonial instruments of torture in French Indochina: Fetter, handcuff, truncheon, hammer and knife. Source: Vietnam National Museum of History (Bảo Tàng Lịch Sử Việt Nam), Hà Nội, Vietnam, Roi bằng xương cá và roi da, Xích khóa tay, Xích chân, author’s photo, 12 April 2023.

Marcel Berni's "Circulating Violence: Guerre contre-révolutionnaire as the Intellectual Foundation of Modern #Torture" is out on FirstView! #counterinsurgency

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Out now, Hélène Quiniou's "#Paris 1958–2015: Terrorism, Reparation, and the Work of #Decolonization."

"Reparations for terrorism emerge not only as a form of humanitarian intervention but also as a tool of counterinsurgency warfare in its own right."

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We'll be waiting!

“publish in cssh” has been on my bucket list since beni kedar’s class in the e1990s — achievement unlocked! (and the process was so quick & smooth that i’m tempted to try for another…)

"This article examines how the labor and community structures of female skin-divers, the Japanese ama and Korean haenyeo, believed to exemplify the primitive ability to adapt to extreme climates, became staple research subjects for global adaptation-resilience science."