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 […]
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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, […]