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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New scholarship on FirstView! Don't miss Anirban Karak's "Coerced Labor, #Caste, and Aspirations for Liberty in Early Nineteenth-Century #Bengal: Revisiting the Antislavery Debate from South Asia." #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1017/S001...

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Enjoy our new On the #Syllabus, Beyond Borders: #Diaspora and the Politics of Belonging. "The essays in this syllabus ask the readers to both traverse and transcend boundary lines as they follow migrants’ journeys towards home, wherever that may be." sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/09...

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

In "Racing #Work / Working #Race," Sam Holly-Kline, Alan Covey, and Emilio Ramírez respond to one another's essays on the imposition of racial categories in 20th-c. Guatemala and 16th-c. Peru. The overlaps and divergences produce fascinating new possibilities. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/09...

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Can we trust the gut? In our latest Behind the Scenes, Alice Yao reveals what she learned by exploring "the noise in the data" on lactose intolerance--findings ignored in biracial approaches to the study of metabolism. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/08...

Via Lactea distributor makes a sale to a young customer in one of Maracaibo’s low income districts. Photos from the archive of the International Basic Economy Corporation.

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Matt Tomlinson's review essay, "Heal Thyself," is available on FirstView! The essay explores four titles on the topics of #mindfulness, #ayahuasca use, #Spiritualism, and #shamanism. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1017/S001...

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

We are excited to add a new book by Matthew Shutzer, winner of the 2022 Jack Goody Award, to our summer reading list! Find details about it, and other recent books by CSSH authors, here: sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/06...

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Find the award-winning essay, described by our jury as "an elegant and sophisticated exploration of political belonging that transcends the scope of classical frameworks of social and political theory," here: doi.org/10.1017/S001...

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Homeland Is Where the Soul Resides: Travel Prayer, Passports, and Nation in the Western Indian Ocean | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core

Homeland Is Where the Soul Resides: Travel Prayer, Passports, and Nation in the Western Indian Ocean - Volume 67 Issue 2

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

We are thrilled to announce that the winner of the 2026 Jack Goody Award is Mandana Limbert, for her essay, "Homeland Is Where the Soul Resides: Travel Prayer, Passports, and Nation in the Western Indian Ocean” (67-2, 2025). Congratulations! sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/08...

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Tobias Kelly's "Private Detectives: #Investigation, #Privacy and Personal Information in Britain, 1965–1975" examines how the work of private investigators "opens wider questions about who should be able to know what about whom." Find it on FirstView! #policing #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1017/S001...

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A new essay by Lâle Can (@lalehjoon.bsky.social), "Creating an “Ottoman Siberia”: Punitive Mobility and Imperial Governance in the Late #Ottoman Empire," examines #exile as a mode of punishment. Find it on FirstView! #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1017/S001...

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Matei Candea & Paolo Heywood's new "What Was Antiformalism, and What Comes Next? On Coherence, Corrigibility and Collaboration" "aims to discern and sharpen the contours of a distinctive tonal shift in contemporary #anthropology —not toward practice, now, but toward “form.”" doi.org/10.1017/S001...

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Esmond Chuah Meng Soh and Keng We Koh's "Stars, Kings, Pirates: The Nine Emperor Gods Festival and the Making of a Diasporic Religious Ecology in Postcolonial Southeast Asia" is out on FirstView! #OpenAccess #China doi.org/10.1017/S001...

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Learn more about this issue's authors, including Önder Eren Akgül, Nora Elizabeth Barakat, R. Alan Covey, Sam Holley-Kline, Mina Khanlarzadeh, Leo Ramirez, Alessandro Rippa, @why-winter.bsky.social, Alice Yao, and Emrah Yıldız, here: sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/07...

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Volume 68, Issue 3 – Comparative Studies in Society and History

Meet the authors of the 68-3 issue, July 2026.

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Our summer issue is out! Articles in this issue are grouped under the rubrics: Imperial Translations; Palimpsestic Frontiers; Scales of Racialization; and Agrarian Revolutions. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/07...

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

In recognition of esteemed anthropologist Renato Rosaldo's passing, we offer free access to his 1981 CSSH review essay, "The Cultural Impact of the Printed Word." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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The Cultural Impact of the Printed Word A Review Article | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core

The Cultural Impact of the Printed Word A Review Article - Volume 23 Issue 3

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

CSSH is thrilled to share our new feature, On the Playlist! We’ll bring you commentary on CSSH essays by the scholars who wrote them! First up: enjoy @why-winter.bsky.social's discussion of shipwrecks, colonial treasure, and the limitations of the national museum. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/06...

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

For your second course, savor Daniel Hershenzon's "Technologies of Devotion and Religious Cooperation in the Mediterranean, 18th-20th Century," examining a surprising case of accommodation between Muslims and Christians at the sanctuary of Santa Rosalia, Sicily. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/06...

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

CSSH offers a double dose of "Behind the Scenes" insights today! First, enjoy Reem Abou-El-Fadl's "Voices for Palestine in Egyptian Protest History," on why oral history was key to uncovering the salience of #Palestine to #Egypt’s 1970s student activists. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/06...

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Our new On the #Syllabus is "a pilgrimage across contemporary and classic CSSH essays that examine the roles that aesthetics, circulation, markets, colonial encounters, infrastructures, violence, and place-making play in shaping the material life of #religion." sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/06...

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Don't miss our latest Under the Rubric feature, "Performative Sovereignty: a conversation with Sam Wilby and Rao Mohsin Ali Noor about pyropolitics, animal sacrifice, and cosmic alignments across Indian and Ottoman polities." sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/05...

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

"Through the humble banana, Paredes provides us with a window into the enduring structures of empire, desire, and dispossession that continue to shape the hills and lives of Mindanao long after the taste that conjured them has been forgotten." Find the article here: doi.org/10.1017/S001...

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Topographies of Fungibility: Reinventing the Japanese Taste for Sweetness in the Philippine Highlands | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core

Topographies of Fungibility: Reinventing the Japanese Taste for Sweetness in the Philippine Highlands - Volume 67 Issue 2

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Congratulations to Alyssa Paredes, whose "Topographies of Fungibility:Reinventing the Japanese Taste for Sweetness in the Philippine Highlands" has just been awarded the the Belasco Prize for Scholarly Excellence by the Association for the Study of Food & Society! sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/04...

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

"This article follows activists and researchers brought into conflict through an REE processing facility in Malaysia, where research on commercial applications for post-processing wastes has been treated alternately as a pathway to economic diversification and a threat to minoritized communities."

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

New to FirstView: Tom Özden-Schilling's "Spiraling out in the Circular Economy: Movement and Belonging at a Malaysian Rare Earth Elements Refinery." #Mining #Malaysia doi.org/10.1017/S001...

A soil conditioner testing site near FELDA Bukit Goh (photo by author).

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Nicholas McGee's "Two Journeys into #Diaspora: Qing and British Imperial Investigations in the Dutch East Indies and Australia" is out on FirstView! doi.org/10.1017/S001...

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Vanessa Freije's ""The Word of the State against Ours”: The Right to Know and State Terror in 1970s #Mexico" "contends that the struggle over information and recognition became the central battlefield for negotiating state violence and opening in Mexico." #FirstView doi.org/10.1017/S001...

1979 Comité leaflet entitled “The Mexican Government Lies.” UACM, CAMENA, Fondo Comité Eureka, exp. 89, vol. 1. Author’s photo, March 2020.

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Alice Yao's "From Disorder to Distinction: #Lactose Intolerance and the #Racialization of Digestion in Postwar Medicine (1950–1980)" argues that despite a post-racial scientific agenda, "research on lactose digestion came to produce a normative discourse around whiteness." doi.org/10.1017/S001...

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Now on FirstView, @why-winter.bsky.social's "Imperial Nostalgia as Patrimony: Shipwrecks and Treasures in the Colonial Museum" shows how two Spanish museum exhibitions "convert recovered colonial treasure into national patrimony and thereby stage imperial nostalgia." doi.org/10.1017/S001...

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Don't miss our latest scholarship! Mina Khanlarzadeh's "Epistemic Translation of Modernity: Negotiating Science and Technology under Semi-Colonial Conditions" is out on FirstView! doi.org/10.1017/S001...

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sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

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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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

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. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/04...

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

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." sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/04...

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

New to FirstView, Alessandro Rippa's "When is a #Frontier? Nostalgia and Aspirations at #China’s Borderlands with #Burma and #Laos." doi.org/10.1017/S001...

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

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." doi.org/10.1017/S001...

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

New scholarship on FirstView! Don't miss Nora Elizabeth Barakat's "Building an #Ottoman National Economy." doi.org/10.1017/S001...

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

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! sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/01...

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

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! sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/03...

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

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Julia Elyachar @jeelyachar.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

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.

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On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

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!

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

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. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/03...

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

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

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.

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

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. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/03...

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

"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." sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/02...

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

CSSH mourns the loss of Vicente Rafael, esteemed scholar and generous contributor to our journal. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/02...

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In Memoriam: Vicente Rafael – Comparative Studies in Society and History

CSSH mourns the loss of Vicente Rafael.

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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

New to FirstView, don't miss @jbilik.bsky.social's "Citizenship Under the Plan: Managing Migrant Worker Inclusion in Late-Soviet #Moscow." #Migration #SovietUnion doi.org/10.1017/S001...

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