CLICK HERE for the table of contents and links to full text. This issue examines histories of opposition connected through the concept of sanctuary, including migrant struggles against militarized borders, indigenous practices of radical hospitality, GLBTQ spaces of refuge, policing-reform efforts, and practices of civil disobedience. Sanctuary’s Radical Networks The editors introduce the issue by examining the genealogies of sanctuary as a space- and movement-based oppositional practice, one that contests the sovereign power of the nation-state and the structural roots of intersecting oppressions. Essays Rachel Ida Buff examines the original distinction made between migrants and refugees and the ways US […]
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CLICK HERE for the table of contents and links to full text. This issue explores the ways, means, and co-constitution of military infrastructures, labor, strategies of violence, and capital’s emergence and ever-expanding need for growth. Violent Entanglements: Militarism and Capitalism The editors introduce the issue by examining the grassroots struggles against U.S. military expansion in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. Javier Puente unpacks military rhetoric in Peru as the military and rural indios struggle for land and labor autonomy. Feature Articles Jeong Min Kim reconstructs black-market, transactional sex during the Korean War. Patrick Chung uses the Hanjin Corporation’s rise in wartime to historicize military outsourcing […]
CLICK HERE for the table of contents and links to full text. This issue of Radical History Review explores the Global South and its meanings for reframing transnational histories between Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as its potential for new forms of radical praxis beyond the Euro-American political order. Features Michelle Moyd resituates the First World War as a key event in the emergence of the Global South, while Quito Swan and Maurice M. Labelle, Jr. trace lesser-known political itineraries between the Middle East, Africa, and the Black Pacific. Emily Callaci examines the gendered dimensions […]
Click here for the table of contents and links to full text. This issue of Radical History Review explores tourism as a critical way of producing knowledge about the “other” and interrogates underlying systems of power that shape that knowledge production. Subaltern Sightseeing Julio Capó Jr. and Katrina Phillips address the ways subaltern groups have engaged with tourism as both the sightseers and the sightseen. Diplomacy on Display Mark Rice, Scott Laderman, and Rustem Ertug Altinay analyze the connections between foreign diplomacy and tourism in the twentieth century, using case studies of American relations with Peru, the Philippines, and Turkey. […]
Click here for the table of contents and links to full text. This issue of Radical History Review is based on the premise that Puerto Rican history is critically important to U.S., Latin American, and world history, and is at its core a multifaceted story of colonialist oppression and people’s resistance. (Re)Views: Five-Book Overviews of Puerto Rican History Two leading historians comment on five books that introduce important aspects of Puerto Rican history. Solsiree del Moral offers a reading list on Modern Puerto Rico, particularly valuable for non-specialists. Fernando Picó discusses five books that suggest a dissenting overview that Puerto […]
Click here for the table of contents and links to full text. This special issue of Radical History Review offers case studies of technoscience engaged both with the interdisciplinary tools of science and technology studies (STS) as well as the enduring legacies of radical political critique. Technoscience, Modernity, and the State Jonathan Hill, Jr. examines the creation of the largest electrical grid in northern Mexico in order to trace the relationship between material infrastructures of power and state formation. David Roth Singerman examines how standards for making “pure” sugar rendered invisible the labors of both plantation workers and commercial chemists […]
Click here for the table of contents and links to full text. Reconsidering Gender, Violence and the State Reassessing conflicting narratives of victimization, subjection, retaliation and self-defense, this issue of Radical History Review reconsiders the inter-relationships among gender, violence and the state. Features Jen Manion analyzes incidents of violence against female prisoners in penitentiaries in early nineteenth-century New York State. Tomoko Seto explores press coverage of anarchist women during the “Red Flag” incident of 1908 in late Meiji Japan. Josh Cerretti examines the ways that invocations of threats to women and children informed the US government’s rationales for military intervention abroad and […]