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During the 2022 Oscars ceremony, actor Will Smith famously walked onto the stage and slapped presenter Chris Rock across the face, in response to a joke about the former’s wife. Pictures of the slap...
Why is our edited volume devoted exclusively to Latin America and the Caribbean, some might ask. After all, antifascism was born in Europe, and many scholars regard this continent as the main arena...
In today’s world of nation states, conventional narratives present decolonisation as an inevitable transition from empire to national independence. However, this does not fully acknowledge the complex,...
Historical rags to riches stories attract intrinsic interest. Nineteenth century social history is populated by men (mostly) driven by the self-improvement ethos who emerged from humble circumstances...
Historians of war often pride themselves on telling ‘forgotten stories’ on the basis of ‘lost voices’ from the past, and rightly so. Those dedicated to the International Brigades would, however,...
What happens when a state is not just funded by carbon—but fundamentally formed by it? In the hydrocarbon-rich monarchies of the Gulf, energy has never been a mere commodity. It has served as the scaffolding...
What was your very first “real” job? Maybe it came after high school or college, or maybe it came long before that. Maybe it aligned with your academic degree or credentials exactly, or, perhaps,...
One of my favorites children’s books was What Do People Do All Day? by Richard Scarry. Repeatedly, I learned how the Busytown tailors, construction workers, and lumbermill employees lived their daily...
Esperanto, Klingon, Na’vi … these are examples of invented or constructed languages (conlangs for short). Unlike ‘natural’ languages such as English, Swahili, or Navajo, which arise and change...
Reading by her window, “cross-legged, like a Turk,” Jane Eyre transports herself to “Lapland, Siberia, Spitzbergen, Nova Zembla, Iceland, Greenland.” Anywhere but Gateshead, where her life has...
Making housing affordable is now a top priority for countries and subnational governments around the world. While much of the debate appears to be happening in countries like the United States and United...
Efforts to “globalize” social theory, overturn the limitations of dominant theoretical perspectives, and rethink the canon have been underway for decades in different academic disciplines. We suggest...
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