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Unsettling Homelands: Radical Histories of the (Ethno)Nation-State A Call for Proposals from the Radical History Review Issue number 161 (May 2028) Abstract Deadline: June 15, 2026 Co-edited by Liza Black and Adrian De Leon The homeland is not a place. It is a problem. It is the central problem of modern politics: the violent, enduring, and unsettling question of who belongs, and who gets to decide. This question animates the nostalgic longing of diasporas, the exclusionary fervor of ethnonationalists, the economic strategies of developing states, and the relentless resistance of Indigenous peoples for whom the homeland was never a question, […]

Global Afro/Indigeneities Global Afro/Indigeneities A Call for Proposals from the Radical History Review Issue number 160 (January 2028) Abstract Deadline: March 30, 2026 Co-edited by Alan Shane Dillingham, Joan Flores-Villalobos, Justin Leroy Radical History Review seeks proposals for articles that explore the entanglements, contradictions, and solidarities at the meeting point of Black and Indigenous histories in the Americas and globally. We invite work that moves across national and continental boundaries, centering the hemisphere as a space of shared struggle, dispossession, intimacy, and world-making. From Patagonia to Nova Scotia, South Africa to Palestine, the experiences of conquest, land theft, enslavement, social […]

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 […]

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 […]

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Self-Determination and Sovereignty A Call for Proposals from the Radical History Review Issue number 156 (October 2026) Abstract Deadline: November 30, 2024 Co-Edited by Marc Goulding and Bonny Ibhawoh In 2020, the United States Supreme Court issued a ruling in McGirt v. Oklahoma that significantly altered the scope of the state’s legal authority. This decision reinforced the status of the Muscogee Creek Nation in eastern Oklahoma and limited the state’s police powers. Many understood McGirt as a victory for indigenous self-governance. Seldom-questioned realms of state authority, such as legal jurisdiction and control of revenue, now came into question. A visitor to Oklahoma […]

The Rest is Political: Radical Histories of Repose A Call for Proposals from the Radical History Review Issue number 154 (January 2026) Abstract Deadline: May 30, 2024 (extended deadline) Co-Edited by Amy Chazkel and Anup Grewal Radical History Review seeks contributions to a forthcoming issue that will explore the expansive possibilities when we historicize rest. Rest is everywhere part of quotidian human experience, and the human body’s need for intermittent periods of restorative unconsciousness is a universal feature of our shared biology. Yet how societies, communities and individuals have segmented sleep in time, sequestered it in space and fought over access […]

A Call for Proposals from the Radical History Review Issue number 155 (May 2026) Abstract Deadline: July 15, 2024 Co-Edited by Andor Skotnes and Paul Buhle This RHR issue will explore the recent history of comics in North America and globally—defined broadly as works that combine sequences of visual images, frequently with text, to convey narratives. Comics in this sense have existed for well over a century as independent publications as well  as appearing in circulars, newspapers, magazines, pamphlets and other print (and more recently digital) media. During the 1930s, popular audiences for comics grew rapidly, especially among youth, and then grew […]

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 […]

Memory Over Forgetting: Monuments, Memorials and Intangible Heritage Issue number 152 (May 2025) Abstract Deadline: August 1, 2023 Co-Edited by Bonita Bennett, Bonny Ibhawoh, Alex Lichtenstein, and Daniel Walkowitz From the removal of Cecil Rhodes from the University of Cape Town, to the toppling of Confederate monuments across the American South, to the dumping of Edward Colston into Bristol harbor, we have recently witnessed profound challenges to the embodiment of national mythmaking in public memorials. Additionally, tearing down old markers of historical memory has been accompanied by the erection of new ones. Globally, popular and grassroots initiatives have rethought statuary, […]