Fascinating critique by @chaciav.bsky.social on the resilience paradigm as neoliberal response to climate change, through a study on Japanese and Korean women diving in extreme environments

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Our latest issue is here! The April edition features essays by Reem Abou-El-Fadl, @jbilik.bsky.social, Charlotte Ciavarella, Anwesha Ghosh, Daniel Hershenzon, Rao Mohsin Ali Noor, @tommasoaga.bsky.social, Sam Wilby, and Gabriel Young.

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If you missed part 1 in the series, find it here:

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As promised, we are excited to share @jeelyachar.bsky.social's response to the six CSSH authors who engaged with "the semicivilized" in last month's In Dialogue! Don't miss "More #Ottoman Heuristics – A Seventh Take on the Semicivilized."

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New to FirstView, Alessandro Rippa's "When is a #Frontier? Nostalgia and Aspirations at #China’s Borderlands with #Burma and #Laos."

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Our latest is Kabir Tambar's "A History of Clamor: Historical Time and the Late #Ottoman Surreal," examining "a scene of late Ottoman parliamentary politics characterized by verbal disruption, raucous applause, and strident indignation: in short, clamor."

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New scholarship on FirstView! Don't miss Nora Elizabeth Barakat's "Building an #Ottoman National Economy."

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We missed a chance to brag about our authors while bragging about our authors! How Transparency Works, a volume hailed in our recent newsletter, was edited not by one but by two CSSH alums: Filipe Calvão and Elizabeth Ferry. Double the kudos!

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The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1563. Kunsthistorisches Museum. Wiki.

Let CSSH plan your class! Our new On the #Syllabus is collection of articles exploring #language as the medium through which power, identity, and authority are established and contested across political, geographic, and historical contexts. Enjoy!

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What a gorgeous set of essays responding to a prompt by Andrew Shryock about concept work from On the Semicivilized. dukeupress.edu/on-the-semic.... I learned so much and am so inspired by these scholars and the worlds they shared in the worst of times. Beyond honored.

The feature includes captivating essays by @superoldgranny.bsky.social, Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular, Mustafa Tuna, @bishara.bsky.social, Anoush Tamar Suni, and Nora Elizabeth Barakat. Stay tuned for @jeelyachar.bsky.social's response!

Sultan Selim III holds court. Oil on canvas, ca. 1789 (Topkapi Palace Museum, Wiki).

Our new In Dialogue explores the relationship between CSSH, the #Ottoman Empire, and comparativism by soliciting reflections on @jeelyachar.bsky.social concept of "the semicivilized" by six CSSH authors.

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Out now on Firstview, "The 1582 Registro de Mulatos and the Politics of Labor and Race in Early Colonial Cusco, #Peru" by R. Alan Covey and Emilio Ramírez.

Our latest Under the Rubric asks Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez, Sofía Rodríguez-López, Piotr H. Kosicki, and Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska to discuss the insights gained from reading each other's essays on #gender and conservative #Catholic social movements.

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"If wonder keeps us attentive to the conceptual and ethical worlds our interlocutors articulated, context keeps us accountable to history," writes Arthur S. Zárate in our latest, "Between Discipline and Wonder: On Writing the Unseen into Islamic History."

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CSSH mourns the loss of Vicente Rafael, esteemed scholar and generous contributor to our journal.

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Don't miss our follow-up conversation with Cooper and Krishan Kumar about what's next for decolonization!

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New to FirstView, don't miss @jbilik.bsky.social's "Citizenship Under the Plan: Managing Migrant Worker Inclusion in Late-Soviet #Moscow." #Migration #SovietUnion

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Congratulations to Filipe Calvão upon the publication of his new co-edited volume, How Transparency Works: Ethnographies of a Global Value.

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Essays for all seasons! CSSH highlights the most-downloaded essays of each of our 2025 issues. Congratulations to @arunabhghosh.bsky.social, Masayuki Ueno, Marco Garrido, and Frederick Cooper!

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Frederick Sefton Jenkins Wojnarowski's "Hirak and Hosha: Modalities of Collective Action in #Jordan in the Wake of the #ArabSpring" is now out on FirstView! #protest #tribes #Anthropology #History

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Newly out at CSSH: @sholleykline.bsky.social's "How the United Fruit Company Racialized Archaeological Labor in #Guatemala, 1910–1953." #OpenAccess #Archaeology

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From the abstract: ""By foregrounding Egyptians’ evolving affective solidarities with Palestine, this article challenges dominant narratives around the decline of Arab nationalism after 1967 and the rise of Islamism in its place."

Now out on FirstView, Reem Abou-El-Fadl's "Palestine in the 1972 Egyptian Student Uprising: Arab Solidarities of Principle and Affect." #AcademicSky #History

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I cannot recall the last time I was so excited to read an article. A thousand congratulations to Reem Abou-El-Fadl on this important, open-access publication. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

An artificial mountain is presented to the Sultan, Surnāme-i Hümāyūn, Topkapı Palace Museum Hazine no. 1344, fols. 58b–59a. Reproduced with permission of The Directorate of National Palaces, Istanbul, Türkiye.

Our latest, Rao Mohsin Ali Noor's "The Pyropolitics of Sacred Kingship: #Fireworks & the Performance of Messianic Sovereignty in the Early Modern #Mediterranean," argues for "courtly pyrotechnics as a means of communicating the “wholly other” nature of the sovereign."

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CSSH celebrates a new book by Leslie James! Don't miss The Moving Word: How the West African and Caribbean Press Shaped Black Political Thought, 1935–1960.

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This issue features work by Marcel Berni, Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez, @orenfalk.bsky.social, Maria Kastrinou, Piotr H. Kosicki, Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska, Stephanie V. Love, Hélène Quiniou, Sofía Rodríguez-López, Lucie Ryzova, Marlene Schäfers, and Arthur Shiwa Zárate!

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Start the year with a fresh issue of CSSH! Articles in this issue are grouped under the rubrics: The Social Lives of #Martyrs; #Spirit Movements; #Counterrevolutionary Knowledge; and Archives of #Bereavement.

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