CLICK HERE for the table of contents and links to full text. This issue challenges pre-existing conceptions about Irish historiography and where we situate Ireland within the global order. The issue thus provides new roadmaps for how we write the history of Ireland. Empire and After José Brownrigg Gleason identifies linkages between national liberation in Ireland and Latin America. Kenneth Shonk studies how African nationalists looked to post-1922 Ireland as a model of postcolonial state-building. Kerron Ó Luain analyzes Irish-language activism in the 1970s as a subaltern phenomenon. Aidan Beatty explores the unwillingness of Stuart Hall and the British New […]
CLICK HERE for the table of contents and links to full text. This issue of Radical History Review examines impacts of the visual to pose new questions and challenges for scholars of sex. Roundtable Curators speak openly about sexuality, queer and trans experience, and the challenge of showcasing sexual histories to broad publics in museum and gallery spaces. Featured Essays Sunny Xiang’s analysis of swimsuit ads and synthetics shows how the white, female “bikini blonde” functioned as iterations of “atomic culture.” Lynda Nead pieces together photography and self-presentation in the life of Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain […]
CLICK HERE for the table of contents and links to full text. This issue of Radical History Review examines the immediacy of how “breaking news” enters into the machinations of interpretation, circulation, and canonization, while considering how the positionalities of the producers, audiences, and contexts affect the interpretation of political events, activist issues, and “official knowledge.” Regulating the News AJ Bauer explores the origins of the Fairness Doctrine of 1949. Sarah Nelson investigates the Global South’s advocacy for an international telecom system to foster information sovereignty. Allison Perlman analyzes the creation of Intertel as a way to reconfigure the role […]
CLICK HERE for the table of contents and links to full text. This issue of Radical History Review traces histories from around the globe and examines how HIV/AIDS has been shaped by the political economies of neoliberalism and state violence. Teaching Radical History Robert Franco illustrates how to teach a global history of AIDS. Features Laura Frances Goffman examines the temporality of AIDS in Kuwait. Joseph Hower analyzes how the public sector union AFSCME moved from anti-discrimination to carceral unionism in responding to AIDS. Salonee Bhaman illustrates the contradictions of housing advocacy for people with HIV/AIDS in 1980s New York […]
CLICK HERE for the table of contents and links to full text. This issue of Radical History Review examines the histories and politics of old age, highlighting approaches that denaturalize chronological age and normative models of the life course by centering power, historical struggle, and linked lives. Conversations Stephen Katz, Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, and Pat Thane discuss the past and potential of critical aging studies and consider its lessons for the age of COVID-19. Slavery, Emancipation, and the Politics of Elder Care Corinne T. Field considers Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, and their black feminist calls for old age justice. Henrique Espada […]
CLICK HERE for the table of contents and links to full text. This issue of the Radical History Review offers histories of fascism and antifascism after 1945 to interrogate the ways that fascist ideology continues to circulate and be opposed transnationally despite its supposed death at the end of the Second World War. Features Antonino Scalia integrates anti-imperialism into the conversation about antifascism through an analysis of Italian Communist internationalism in the 1960s while Michael Staudenmaier explores the use of fascism in the construction of the Latino/a/x Left in the 1970s. Rosa Hamilton turns to the London Gay Liberation Front […]