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CLICK HERE for the table of contents and links to full text. This issue of Radical History Review offers a collection of essays and reflections that grapple with the meaning of decolonization in a world riddled with imperial projects. Features Amit Bhagat and Rebecca Waxman examine the anticolonial uprising and […]

Radical Histories of Decolonization

Statue of person drinking from a shell in front in plaza in front of government building.

CLICK HERE for the table of contents and links to full text. This issue of Radical History Review revisits the intersection of public history—long a concern of the journal–and the burgeoning field of critical memory studies. Contributors explore contested terrain where radical “memory activists,” populist nationalists, and self-proclaimed preservers of […]

Memory over Forgetting: Monuments, Memorials, and Intangible Heritage

RHR Issue 151 cover

CLICK HERE for the table of contents and links to full text. This issue interrogates the power and the persistence of the concept of economic miracle. Originally associated with the seemingly miraculous postwar recoveries of Germany and Japan, the economic miracle has become a fixture in economic policy-making, especially in […]

Economic Miracles and Their Afterlives

Cover of RHR Issue 150, showing covers of revolutionary periodicals scattered.

CLICK HERE for the table of contents and links to full text. This issue of Radical History Review examines periodicals and other print ephemera—newspapers, literary journals, magazines, pamphlets—as crucial sites of Left, anti-imperial, and anti-colonial critical production. Revolutionary papers generated oppositional networks, critical spaces, and alternative artistic practices, linking local […]

Revolutionary Papers: Anticolonial Periodicals from the Global South

Cover of RHR Issue 149: May 2024, Troubling Terms and the Sex Trades. Red umbrella march, showing people with red umbrellas and person in foreground with megaphone and wearing shirt that says "sex worker."

CLICK HERE for the table of contents and links to full text. This issue of Radical History Review assembles writings from scholars, sex workers, and activists, each of whom interrogates a “troubled term” and its place in the history of prostitution. Genealogies: This section includes scholarly articles that explore a […]

Troubling Terms and the Sex Trades

Cover of Issue 148, Feminists Confront State Violence

CLICK HERE for the table of contents and links to full text. This issue of Radical History Review explores how feminists have conceptualized, negotiated, and challenged structures of state violence to create sites of liberation and care within harmful and neglectful institutions. Features Emily Hobson and Mónica Jiménez demonstrate that […]

Feminists Confront State Violence

Cover of RHR issue 147, showing a person looking closely through a lens and the issue title, "The Political Lives of Infrastructure."

CLICK HERE for the table of contents and links to full text. The Political Lives of Infrastructure Contributions to this issue of Radical History Review seek to expand taken-for-granted understandings of how infrastructure has historically served as the spatial backbone for building and reproducing various imperial, settler colonial, and racial […]

The Political Lives of Infrastructure

Cover of Issue 146, The acrylic on canvas painting is titled Desvelo, 1990, by former Puerto Rican political prisoner Elizam Escobar.

CLICK HERE for the table of contents and links to full text. Political Imprisonments and Confinements This issue of Radical History Review explores states’ uses of criminalization and imprisonment to silence critical voices and maintain structures of authority. Features: Orisami Burton examines the US government’s counterinsurgency strategy against Black prisoners […]

Political Imprisonment and Confinement

RHR Issue 145 Cover Image, picture of beach with buried speed-limit 45 sign in dunes

CLICK HERE for the table of contents and links to full text. Alternatives to the Anthropocene This issue of Radical History Review examines the heterogeneous imaginaries and social movements struggling against the social and environmental destruction of the Anthropocene, the notion of a homogenous humanity driving the geological era of […]

Alternatives to the Anthropocene

Cover of Issue 144, Historicizing the Images and Politics of the Afropolitan.

CLICK HERE for the table of contents and links to full text. This issue of Radical History Review interrogates and reimagines the “Afropolitan,” the term coined by writer Taiye Selasi and popularized by theorist Achille Mbembe. Our contributors creatively reframe the Afropolitan as part of a broader history of global […]

Historicizing the Images and Politics of the Afropolitan

Cover of RHR 143, Irish and World Histories, shows unfinished new homes being built on desolate landscape

CLICK HERE for the table of contents and links to full text. This issue challenges pre-existing conceptions about Irish historiography and where we situate Ireland within the global order. The issue thus provides new roadmaps for how we write the history of Ireland. Empire and After José Brownrigg Gleason identifies […]

Irish and World Histories

Cover image of RHR 142, Visual Archives of Sex, woman with camera sitting on porch

CLICK HERE for the table of contents and links to full text. This issue of Radical History Review examines impacts of the visual to pose new questions and challenges for scholars of sex. Roundtable Curators speak openly about sexuality, queer and trans experience, and the challenge of showcasing sexual histories […]

Visual Archives of Sex

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