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Cover of Radical History Review, January 2026, issue 154. A black-and-white illustrated drawing shows a person lying on their side on a pillow or mat, eyes closed, with arms folded under the head, beneath a simple wooden frame. The background features dense line patterns resembling textured fabric or ground. The title “Radical History Review” appears at the top, and the subtitle reads, “The Rest is Political: Radical Histories of Repose.”

CLICK HERE for the table of contents and links to full text. The Rest is Political: Radical Histories of Repose This issue of Radical History Review explores how individuals and communities have shaped history through states of repose, slumber, and dreaming, as it assembles a history of the present through the study of the sites of and rights to rest in the past. Features Hermann von Hesse traces how meanings of home as resting place for living and ancestral kin changed under new commercial relations on Africa’s Gold Coast in the early nineteenth century. Khal Schneider shows how Indigenous Pomo-speakers […]

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The Rest Is Political: Radical Histories of Repose