A special workshop considering how social movements of the recent past -- anti-war movements; democracy movements against dictatorships in the Americas, North Africa, the Middle East, and Europe; Occupy Wall Street; and Black Lives Matter -- can inform social resistance after the current US election. http://ow.ly/qpxb306skjM
Since coming to power, Trump has blurred the lines between politics and sports, with football representing “a theater of unmitigated violence that literally incarnates a remasculinized, great-again America.”
The BBC miniseries, a Very English Scandal (on Amazon Prime from June 29) has proven a hit among Brits. But what does the Thorpe affair reveal about the history of elite men seeking sex and relationships with other men?
The era of post-truth politics in Turkey, in which fact and fiction are indistinguishable, has allowed the ruling AKP party to “delegitimize and even criminalize any attempt to initiative to find a way out from this nebulous space”.
Jeffrey Goldfarb offers his reflections on not so distant suffering at home and abroad in a moment of American state sponsored child abuse, considering what we know from digital media and what we know through established newspapers.
By telling parents that their children were being taken away to be bathed, ICE agents were tapping into an “ideology that treats immigrants as a contagion of the national body.” Sarah Sklaw on the ways in which hygiene, contagion, and cleanliness shape the U.S. immigration policy.
Why Donald Trump’s Dickensian policy of wrenching children from their parents and incarcerating them in caged institutions is nothing more than a ploy to force Democrats to sign off on the Border Wall.
The U.S. has a history of separating children from their families, writes historian Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, with Native American children forcibly sent to boarding schools in the early 20th century as way of forced assimilation.
Historical events may not be alike in their details but their dynamics can be reproduced at different times and places. Historian Claire Potter on the parallels between the current horrors taking place at U.S.-Mexico border—where migrant children are being forcibly separated from their parents—and the Holocaust.
This week the Past Present team debate the historical relationship between Canada and the United States, the legacy of the late designer Kate Spade, and the controversy over proposed changes to an Advanced Placement history course.
The Nigerian sociologist Oyèrónké Oyĕwùmí has famously posited that gender is a western cultural construct that did not exist in Yoruba society. Lewis Gordon explains why her work is so important, and provides an overview of her most important writing to date.
By examining the VIX, a key measure of market volatility also known as the ‘fear index,’ we can reveal the ways in which the “social imaginary” of finance function—and its tendency towards self-destruction.
A 19th-century statue of Queen Anne with an allegorical representation of America as a topless woman with a feathered headdress, bow and arrow in hand, sits in front of St Paul’s Cathedral in London. The statue is an unmistakable monument to empire, writes Robbie Richardson—but it is also a fantasy of an empire to come.
