@jamesamark.bsky.social
Historian. Uni of Exeter. Off White. Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race (2024); Socialism Goes Global (2022) https://arch-history.exeter.ac.uk/history/profile/index.php?username=jamark
As we enter a period of major global instability- what The Economist termed ‘the Age of Chaos’ we need new thinking. So I’m delighted to announce this major new programme on Global Disorder, in partnership with Carnegie Endowment for International Peace www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/british...
Happy to have contributed a chapter on culture and #memory in far-right #protest events in Eastern #Germany, and I’m especially excited that one of my fieldwork photographs was selected for the cover!
BTW this book is fully #openaccess
Yesterday, we launched the new Exeter Centre for Eastern European and Eurasian Studies. @catherineowen.bsky.social Muireann Maguire, Nelly Bekus, and others organised with excellent external speakers and a display of the wealth of Eurasia expertise at Exeter.
www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen...
My article 'Between Moscow and Geneva: The Soviet Red Cross and the International Red Cross Movement' is out in the Journal of Global History. It explores the mutually beneficial relationship between the Soviet Red Cross & the League of Red Cross Societies during the Cold War tinyurl.com/yck3xzsc
Professor Catherine Hall will be delivering our annual early modern history lecture, "Racial Capitalism across the Black/White Atlantic". Join us on Wednesday 5 March from 15:30 to 17:00 in the Newman Red lecture theatre, or on Zoom. Register here: racialcapitalism.eventbrite.co.uk
#earlymodern
Just finished and highly recommend this by Eva Dou. Sober yet gripping. Perhaps not enough detail on how exactly Huawei leapfrogged so many times, but fair enough. The best parts are on Ren Zhengfei's early life and on Huawei's initial expansion along the fringes (and in the rubble) of US empire.
From the reality of settler colonialism to the end of the postwar order, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.
imperialglobalexeter.com/2025/02/21/t...
📢EXETER BOOK LAUNCH📢
My fab colleague Ryan will be in conversation with Dr. Malcolm Richards to talk about his biography of Robert Wedderburn, a man central to Black radical political thought in the Revolutionary Atlantic. 🗃️
📆Tues 12 March 7pm
🏫Bookbag
🎟️£5 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tues-11-ma...
I'm giving a hybrid talk on our new book Off White: Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race in Budapest next Tuesday at the CEU Democracy Institute - also via Zoom:
Details and registration: cutt.ly/ueZXnxIf
🗓️ Dec 17, 5:30pm
📍 Budapest, Nador u. 15 / Zoom
I'm giving a hybrid talk on our new book Off White: Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race in Budapest next Tuesday at the CEU Democracy Institute - also via Zoom:
Details and registration: cutt.ly/ueZXnxIf
🗓️ Dec 17, 5:30pm
📍 Budapest, Nador u. 15 / Zoom
My book, “Making Mao's Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism,” finally has a confirmed publication date—December 5, 2024. You can order it via Amazon.
www.amazon.com/Making-Maos-...
Published today: "Europe in British Literature and Culture" edited by Petra Rau and Will Rossiter (Cambridge University Press). Chapter 6 by me is on "Balkans and Ruritania"; Chs. 1-5 and 7-26 also recommended!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...
We will also be holding a launch event this Friday 29 November 2004, 2pm to 5pm in London, at SOAS – to sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/not-nuremb...
The next item on my reading list: Masha Kirasirova's The Eastern International.
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Russia’s stark population decline is leading to increasingly wild proposals for upping birth rates. Not just abortion restrictions, monetary incentives, or attacks on “child free propaganda” - there’s also consideration for freeing female prisoners and nullifying sentences of those who conceive.
This global take on the contemporary rise of radical conservatism looks really good.
Hello Bluesky, I am a historian based in Ankara. A few months ago, Oxford University Press published my first book, which explores the way that Russian and Turkish revolutionaries arrived at a statist partnership as they responded to post-WWI liberal internationalism.
Hi new followers! I use this account to stay updated on all things far-right, past and present. In August ‘24, I defended my dissertation ‘The Pursuit of White Security’. In it, I show that the fantasies of ‘white security’ fueling recent right-wing terrorist attacks are anything but new.
#OpenAccess #new
Exiled in East Germany: Life Stories of Malawian and South African Freedom Fighters during the Cold War by Sebastian Pampuch, 2024,
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social.
library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...
#GDR #DDR #exil #SACP #ANC #internationalism #ColdWar
Until recently, Moscow’s Gulag History Museum was the only major Russian institution dedicated to the memory of Soviet-era repressions that hadn’t come into the government’s crosshairs. Now that appears to be over.
this took a long time. I'm so happy to share my latest paper in @risjnl.bsky.social, looking at racial entanglement, masculinism, and gendered East/West binaries in global reactionary discourse (via another look at Chinese anti-baizuo discourse).
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Historians! I'm drawing up a bibliography of work from any region and any period that reflects on what history looks like from the sides, from the middles-of-nowhere, from the peripheries; and work that examines how those places come to be defined that way. I'd love some recommendations.
And this afternoon, you can participate (also on Zoom!) in a workshop New Tendencies in Writing the Intellectual Histories of East Central Europe, combined with the launch of 4(!) books discussing Central Eastern European pasts. @szidora.bsky.social
events.ceu.edu/2024-11-14/c...
So I've had a go at a starter pack, if you want to be added, just let me know! go.bsky.app/JVTTJQd
Also this is really excellent on supposedly peripheral spaces, interimperiality: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
If the contribution of peripheries to global racial orders is of interest to you, then also www.dukeupress.edu/white-enclos...
Our upcoming volume (comes out in January) is about rethinking modern imperialism from its (European) margins, the intro might be of interest?
