Radical Histories of Decolonization A Call for Proposals from the Radical History Review Issue number 153 Abstract Deadline: January 8, 2024 Co-Edited by Manan Ahmed, Marissa Moorman, Jecca Namakkal, Golnar Nikpour Radical History Review seeks contributions for a special issue entitled “Radical Histories of Decolonization.” Historians have tended to treat decolonization as an event that began in the 1940s and ended by the late 1970s, primarily confined to large areas of Asia and Africa, though scholars of global Indigenous histories offer a deeper and unfinished timeline. Many activists today use the term to discuss a still-present need to end colonial institutions, from […]
Monthly Archives: October 2023
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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 capitalist regimes of power and rule. They explore how historically oriented scholarship can foreground radical politics organized around and through infrastructure across multiple spatial and temporal scales. Roundtable I Deborah Cowen and Laleh Khalili have a lively conversation about infrastructure’s radical possibilities and highlight the forms of labor, protest, and […]