Policing, Justice, and the Radical Imagination

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This issue collects scholarship and activist work that challenges the assumption that police are necessary by examining instances of social peace without formal, institutionalized police.

Features
Tom Lambert reconstructs how local communities in tenth-century England carried out legal interdictions while tempering violent retributive justice. […]

Revolutionary Positions: Gender and Sexuality in Cuba and Beyond

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This issue of Radical History Review reflects on the legacy of the Cuban Revolution as it reaches its sixtieth anniversary. Exploring the transnational meanings of the revolution through the lens of sexuality and gender, these essays offer fresh insight into Cuba’s global impact on politics and culture during the Cold War and b […]

Radical Histories of Sanctuary

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This issue examines histories of opposition connected through the concept of sanctuary, including migrant struggles against militarized borders, indigenous practices of radical hospitality, GLBTQ spaces of refuge, policing-reform efforts, and practices of civil disobedience.

Sanctuary’s Radical Networks
The editors introduce the issue by e […]

The Politics of Boycotts

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This issue of Radical History Review investigates the connected histories of anti-racist and anti-imperialist boycotts. From the original Captain Boycott to the struggles for justice in Israel/Palestine, boycotts have challenged global empire through a popular politics of refusal.

Introduction
In their editors’ introduction, Natalie Rothman […]

Militarism and Capitalism: The Work and Wages of Violence

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This issue explores the ways, means, and co-constitution of military infrastructures, labor, strategies of violence, and capital’s emergence and ever-expanding need for growth.

Violent Entanglements: Militarism and Capitalism
The editors introduce the issue by examining the grassroots struggles against U.S. military expansion in Pye […]

Photography and Work

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This issue of Radical History Review examines the conceptual and historical connections between capitalism and photography, exploring the potential of photography to enable radical approaches to historicizing the lives of working peoples.

Class
Focusing on work made by British photographer Chris Killip and American photographer Latoya Ruby […]

The Global South: History, Politics, Maps

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This issue of Radical History Review explores the Global South and its meanings for reframing transnational histories between Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as its potential for new forms of radical praxis beyond the Euro-American political order.

Features
Michelle Moyd resituates the First World War as a key event […]

Premodern Radicalisms / Radical Premodernisms

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This issue of Radical History Review investigates, interrogates, and reimagines the intersection between modern and premodern history in order to seek a rapprochement between our often presentist political and cultural agendas and the history of the premodern past.

Intervention
Eleftheria Pappa problematizes recent archaeological practices […]

Unpacking Tourism

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This issue of Radical History Review explores tourism as a critical way of producing knowledge about the “other” and interrogates underlying systems of power that shape that knowledge production.

Subaltern Sightseeing
Julio Capó Jr. and Katrina Phillips address the ways subaltern groups have engaged with tourism as both the sightseers and the […]

Puerto Rico: A US Colony in a Postcolonial World?

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This issue of Radical History Review is based on the premise that Puerto Rican history is critically important to U.S., Latin American, and world history, and is at its core a multifaceted story of colonialist oppression and people’s resistance.

(Re)Views: Five-Book Overviews of Puerto Rican History
Two leading historians comment on five b […]