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 networks, pasts, and futures. Feature Essays Elizabeth Fretwell examines and contextualizes the Afropolitanism of elite sartorial culture of precolonial Dahomey. Ndubueze Mbah theorizes the “rebellious mobilities” of nineteenth-century Liberated Africans who returned to Nigeria from Sierra Leone. Reflections on the Afropolitan Antonia Carcelén-Estrada uses gendered absences in Sánchez-Gallque’s iconic Los […]
Yearly Archives: 2022
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After the Economic Miracle Issue number 151 (January 2025) Abstract Deadline: May 1, 2023 Co-Edited by Ravinder Kaur and Barbara Weinstein To witness the world through the many unfolding “economic miracles” is to behold dreamworlds and catastrophes all at once. Initially tied to the post-war phenomenon of wirtschaftswunder – the dramatic pace of economic recovery in West Germany – the seductive idea of “economic miracle” captured the imagination of policymakers especially across the old third world. From the “miracle on the Han river” in South Korea, the “East Asian miracle,” the South East Asian “tiger economies” to the “Chilean miracle” […]
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 linkages between national liberation in Ireland and Latin America. Kenneth Shonk studies how African nationalists looked to post-1922 Ireland as a model of postcolonial state-building. Kerron Ó Luain analyzes Irish-language activism in the 1970s as a subaltern phenomenon. Aidan Beatty explores the unwillingness of Stuart Hall and the British New […]
Revolutionary Papers: Counter-Institutions, -Politics and -Cultures of Anticolonial Periodicals in the Global South Issue number 150 (October 2024) Abstract Deadline: August 15, 2022 Co-Edited by Mahvish Ahmad, Chana Morgenstern, Koni Benson, and Alex Lichtenstein Radical History Review seeks contribution for a special issue entitled Revolutionary Papers. This issue will examine periodicals and other print ephemera—including newspapers, cultural and literary journals, magazines, and pamphlets—as sites of Left, anti-imperial, and anti-colonial critical production across the Global South. During struggles against colonialism, Apartheid, and postcolonial violence, revolutionary papers generated oppositional networks, critical politics, left mobilizations, literary scenes, and alternative artistic practices. Often produced […]
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 to broad publics in museum and gallery spaces. Featured Essays Sunny Xiang’s analysis of swimsuit ads and synthetics shows how the white, female “bikini blonde” functioned as iterations of “atomic culture.” Lynda Nead pieces together photography and self-presentation in the life of Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain […]