CLICK HERE for the table of contents and links to full text. This issue of Radical History Review examines the immediacy of how “breaking news” enters into the machinations of interpretation, circulation, and canonization, while considering how the positionalities of the producers, audiences, and contexts affect the interpretation of political events, activist issues, and “official knowledge.” Regulating the News AJ Bauer explores the origins of the Fairness Doctrine of 1949. Sarah Nelson investigates the Global South’s advocacy for an international telecom system to foster information sovereignty. Allison Perlman analyzes the creation of Intertel as a way to reconfigure the role […]
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CLICK HERE for the table of contents and links to full text. This issue of Radical History Review traces histories from around the globe and examines how HIV/AIDS has been shaped by the political economies of neoliberalism and state violence. Teaching Radical History Robert Franco illustrates how to teach a global history of AIDS. Features Laura Frances Goffman examines the temporality of AIDS in Kuwait. Joseph Hower analyzes how the public sector union AFSCME moved from anti-discrimination to carceral unionism in responding to AIDS. Salonee Bhaman illustrates the contradictions of housing advocacy for people with HIV/AIDS in 1980s New York […]
CLICK HERE for the table of contents and links to full text. This issue of Radical History Review examines the histories and politics of old age, highlighting approaches that denaturalize chronological age and normative models of the life course by centering power, historical struggle, and linked lives. Conversations Stephen Katz, Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, and Pat Thane discuss the past and potential of critical aging studies and consider its lessons for the age of COVID-19. Slavery, Emancipation, and the Politics of Elder Care Corinne T. Field considers Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, and their black feminist calls for old age justice. Henrique Espada […]