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 colonial repression that took place in Chimur (India) in August 1942 to ask questions about why certain events are left out of histories of decolonization in India. Benjamin Kapron uses the concept of survivance to explore decolonial other-than-human opposition to the Trent-Severn Waterway. Bright Gyamfi sheds light on the life […]
Yearly Archives: 2025
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Radical Histories of Palestine and Palestinians [see here for this call for proposals in Arabic ] اتبع الرابط للنسخة العربية A Call for Proposals from the Radical History Review Issue number 159 (October 2027) Abstract Deadline: December 7, 2025 (extended) Co-Edited by Golnar Nikpour, Mezna Qato, and Nir Shafir As the attempt to eradicate the Palestinian people from their lands accelerates–and with it the elimination of their histories, archives, and stories–the need for new radical histories of Palestine and Palestinians has become all the more urgent. This special issue is an invitation to study the places and spaces, communities and movements […]
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 tradition have battled to place their stamp on public narratives about the past. Articles Jamille Pinheiro Días and Lúcia Sá expose Sao Paulo’s Bandeirantes monument’s links to colonial trauma and anti-Indigenous racism in Brazil. Claire Brennan and Ana Stevenson explore local efforts to take down statues of Capt. James Cook—commercial […]
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 the global south where the longing for a miraculous economic transformation has served as a justification for repressive regimes and intensified inequality. Roundtable Miracles and Mirages: Quinn Slobodian tracks the globalization of the miracle concept; Franco Barchiesi discusses how colonial tropes of Blackness produce distinct meanings for economic miracles in […]
Mobility Regimes A Call for Proposals from the Radical History Review Issue number 158 (May 2027) Abstract Deadline: July 7, 2025 Co-Edited by Amy Chazkel, Jecca Namakkal, Kalyani Ramnath, and Evan Taparata Radical History Review seeks contributions for a special issue focused on mobility regimes. Scholars of migration have made tremendous strides in interrogating the structural conditions that impact the ability of people to move across and within borders and, as crucially, to stay in their homes. Often, however, these interrogations have led to the mobility and displacement of peoples being studied in isolation from each other—immigrants as strictly opposed to refugees, […]
A Call for Proposals from the Radical History Review Issue number 157 (January 2027) Abstract Deadline: April 30, 2025 Co-Edited by Yalile Suriel, Kevin Murphy, and Sandhya Shukla Radical History Review seeks contributions for a special issue exploring the university as a space for possession and dispossession. We ask how the university has become both a material and conceptual site for active discussions of who and what “the community” and “the public” are, and how they are best served and/or centered. This project is animated by contemporary events which have brought renewed popular attention to the life of the university, and what […]
We don’t have any active calls for proposals at this time, but plan to have some posted soon. Please check back!