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Comparative Studies in Society and History journal publishes multidisciplinary research, cultural and area studies, and innovative ventures in theory and methods. https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/
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"I never intended on writing history," writes Chihab El Khachab in our latest Behind the Scenes feature. Find out why his research on the Egyptian Ministry of Culture required going to the archives, and why those archives required an "ethnographer's flair."
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From the abstract: "This essay departs from extant studies of visual cultures of secular martyrdom or funerary portraiture framed by notions of commemoration, and instead stresses contingent presence grounded in the specific liminal temporality of the revolutionary process."
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‘Ammar Abu Bakr’s wall of martyrs with wings, Muhammad Mahmoud Street, February 2012. Author’s photo.
Lucie Ryzova's "Portrait of a #Martyr as a Young Man: Social Lives of #Photographs in Revolutionary #Egypt" is open access and out on FirstView!
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What did Islamic justice look like for Venetian merchants trading in premodern Ottoman Empire?
My article in @csshjournal.bsky.social explores how inter-imperial entanglements & global trade shaped the production & application of Sharia in the 17th c. Ottoman Emp. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
"By focusing on the sultan’s court of justice, the Imperial Council, & the Venetian merchants who appealed to it, this piece illustrates how Ottoman commercial interests & political concerns influenced the production and application of Islamic law (Sharia) in Ottoman courts for European merchants."
25.11.2025 19:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Don't miss @tommasoaga.bsky.social's "Ottoman Justice and Political Economy of Empires: #Venetian Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Courts," out on FirstView and Open Access!
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Colonial instruments of torture in French Indochina: Fetter, handcuff, truncheon, hammer and knife. Source: Vietnam National Museum of History (Bảo Tàng Lịch Sử Việt Nam), Hà Nội, Vietnam, Roi bằng xương cá và roi da, Xích khóa tay, Xích chân, author’s photo, 12 April 2023.
Marcel Berni's "Circulating Violence: Guerre contre-révolutionnaire as the Intellectual Foundation of Modern #Torture" is out on FirstView! #counterinsurgency
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Out now, Hélène Quiniou's "#Paris 1958–2015: Terrorism, Reparation, and the Work of #Decolonization."
"Reparations for terrorism emerge not only as a form of humanitarian intervention but also as a tool of counterinsurgency warfare in its own right."
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We'll be waiting!
16.11.2025 18:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“publish in cssh” has been on my bucket list since beni kedar’s class in the e1990s — achievement unlocked! (and the process was so quick & smooth that i’m tempted to try for another…)
15.11.2025 01:20 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1"This article examines how the labor and community structures of female skin-divers, the Japanese ama and Korean haenyeo, believed to exemplify the primitive ability to adapt to extreme climates, became staple research subjects for global adaptation-resilience science."
14.11.2025 16:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Charlotte Ciavarella's "Sustainable Disaster: Fantasies of Resilience, Global Adaptation Science, and East Asia’s Seawomen" is out on FirstView! #Development #Capitalism
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The article "proposes two archetypes of dysfunctional bereaved husband, observable in the medieval Norse world which the sagas describe (ca. 800–1300): the widower on the warpath and the widower on the bridal path."
13.11.2025 21:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0On FirstView from CSSH, don't miss @orenfalk.bsky.social's "The Widowers’ Two Plights: Toward a Cultural History of Bereaved Husbands." #Norse #twitterstorians
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This month, CSSH celebrates Arndt Emmerich's award-winning essay and highlights a new book by Christina Schwenkel!
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New to FirstView, Daniel Hershenzon's "The Social Life of Wax in the Premodern #Maghrib" explores how "wax formed invisible, often unintended connections between Muslim theologians and rulers, Catholic and Muslim captives, slaves, wax makers, merchants, and redeemers."
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"Brokering Right-to-Life: #Poland & the Transnational Entanglements of #Catholic Pro-Life Activism, from Santiago to Washington to Gdańsk, 1970s–1990s" by Piotr H. Kosicki and Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska "examines multi-vector pro-life exchanges between Poland, the US, & #Chile."
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A child levitating in front of witnesses due to the influence of witchcraft. Saducismus Triumphatus, London, by author Joseph Glanvill. 1681.
'Tis the season.... for "Corpses, spirits, and the occult: a selection of CSSH’s spookiest scholarship"! #Halloween #AcademicSky
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Now out, Arthur Shiwa Zárate's "Cosmopolitan Spirits: #Islam and the Experimental Cosmologies of Egypt’s Spiritualist Movement, 1947–1960" "foregrounds the Islamic tradition’s entanglements with scientific discourses and navigates beyond claims about epistemological rupture."
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Congratulations to Arndt Emmerich, whose CSSH essay "Jewish-Muslim Friendship Networks: A Study of Intergenerational Boundary Work in Postwar Germany" has won @germanhistsoc.bsky.social's 2025 Rethinking German History Prize!
Find the award-winning article here: doi.org/10.1017/S001...
CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. Arndt Emmerich (University of Hertfordshire) on being awarded the 2025 Rethinking German History Prize for his article in @csshjournal.bsky.social
Read our report and find out how to read Dr. Emmerich's winning article here: www.germanhistorysoc...
The grave of an Algerian martyr guillotined in the prison of Oran, next to unmarked burial plots. Author’s photo, May 2019.
"Oran is an archive of displacement, containing the imprint of overlooked, erased, or forgotten (often violent) pasts stored in everyday things." Don't miss Stephanie V. Love's "The Archive of #Displacement: Vernacular History and Urban Cemeteries in Oran, #Algeria."
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From the abstract: "In this article, we have put forward the concept of “insurgent immortality” to make sense of the political potency of revolutionary martyrs and past lives among Kurdish communities from Turkey and Syrian Druze communities in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights."
20.10.2025 16:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0New by Marlene Schäfers and Maria Kastrinou: "Martyrs, Dreams, and Past Lives: Insurgent Immortality and the Expansive Logic of Debt." #Kurds #Turkey #Druze #Martyrdom
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Don't miss our latest! Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez and Sofía Rodríguez-López's "One Cross, Two Continents: How #Catholic Women’s Resistance in #Mexico Inspired Their Spanish Counterparts (1926–1936)." #Spain #History #AcademicSky
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🍂Our autumn issue is here!🍂 Articles in this issue are grouped under the rubrics: Figures of Violence; Documentary Politics; Decolonization and Its Discontents; and Ottoman Difference. #Anthropology #History #AcademicSky #OpenAccess
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The IPC export terminal at Faw, sited in land formerly devoted to date cultivation, ca. 1956. Source: British Petroleum Archives 223591. © BP plc
New scholarship at CSSH! Gabriel Young's "Remaking a Sovereign Landlord: Property and Dispossession Along the #Basra #Oil Frontier."
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Interesting new paper in @csshjournal.bsky.social about how geological surveys have repeatedly portrayed Afghanistan as a "land of untold mineral wealth" and untapped potential over the last two centuries:
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CSSH highlights new books by Arthur Shiwa Zárate and @bishara.bsky.social!
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In our latest Under the Rubric, Along the Imperial Spectrum, Serkan Yolaçan, Ping-Hsiu Alice Lin, and Victoria Fomina discuss what can be learned about #empire by reading their articles together. #History
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