Comparative Studies in Society and History: an International Quaterly DATINI

Comparative Studies in Society and History: an International Quaterly

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
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ISSN: 0010-4175
Conservata in: Firenze, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Biblioteca di Scienze Sociali – Punto di servizio: Economia, Coll: Riv. Str. 0247
Consistenza: a. 1, 1958/59-a. 43, 2001
Lacune: a. 16, 1974, 1

Conservata in: Firenze, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Biblioteca di Scienze Sociali – Punto di servizio: Scienze Politiche, Coll: Riv. Str. 0064
Consistenza: a. 1, 1958/59-
[2030-2021 ] [2020-2011 ] [ 2010-2001 ] [ 2000-1991] [ 1990-1981 ] [ 1980-1971] [ 1970-1961 ] [ 1960-1958 ]

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a. 66, 2024, 1

Editorial Foreword, p. 1-3

Félix Krawatzek, Friedemann Pestel, The Political Force of Memory: The Making and Unmaking of Brexit as an Event, p. 4-31
Gaurav C. Garg, Between Global History and Microhistory: Rethinking Histories of ?Small Spaces? and Cities, p. 32-56
Aymeric Xu, Typologies of Secularism in China: Religion, Superstition, and Secularization, p. 57-80
Sean F. McEnroe, Cross-Cultural Perceptions of Technology and Magic in the Ghost Dance, Boxer Uprising, and Maji Maji Rebellion, p. 81-105
Deborah Winslow, Cartwheel or Ladder? Reconsidering Sinhala Caste, p. 106-130
Yazan Doughan, The Rule-of-Law as a Problem Space: W?s?a and the Paradox of Justice in Jordan, p. 131-154
Wiktor Marzec, Risto Turunen, Parliament and Revolution: Poland, Finland, and the End of Empire in the Early Twentieth Century, p. 155-184
Roy Bar Sadeh, Worldmaking in the Hijaz: Muslims between South Asian and Soviet Visions of Managing Difference, 1919–1926, p. 185-212
Andrei Sorescu, The ?Is? at Home, the ?Ought? Abroad: Self-Comparison as Self-Criticism and the Transylvanian Model in Early Twentieth-Century Romania, p. 213-237


a. 65, 2023, 4

Editorial Foreword, p. 723-725

Courtney Handman, Language at the Limits of the Human: Deceit, Invention, and the Specter of the Unshared Symbol, p. 726-750
Divya Cherian, The Owl and the Occult: Popular Politics and Social Liminality in Early Modern South Asia, p. 751-778
Robert P. Weller, Keping Wu, Religion in the Folded City: Origami and the Boundaries of the Chronotope, p. 779-800
Sarath Pillai, German Lessons: Comparative Constitutionalism, States? Rights, and Federalist Imaginaries in Interwar India, p. 801-827
Richard Cole, Runes and Rye: Administration in Denmark and the Emergence of the Younger Futhark, 500–800, p. 828-852
Tasha Rijke-Epstein, Making Malagasy Zebu: The Biopolitics of Cattle Commodification in Socialist Madagascar, 1960–1978, p. 853-881
Artemy M. Kalinovsky, Exceptions to Socialism: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Transformation of Soviet Development in Comparative Perspective, p. 882-907
Harriet Zurndorfer, Human Trafficking and Piracy in Early Modern East Asia: Maritime Challenges to the Ming Dynasty Economy, 1370–1565, p. 908-931
Maximilien Zahnd, Praise the Gardeners, Dun the Hunters: Alaska Natives, Taxation, and Settler Colonialism, p. 932-959


a. 65, 2023, 3

EXTENDED ENSLAVEMENTS
Nana Osei Quarshie, Spiritual Pawning: ?Mad Slaves? and Mental Healing in Atlantic-Era West Africa, p. 475-499
Jonathan Connolly, Antislavery, ?Native Labour?, and the Turn to Indenture in British Colonial Natal, 1842–1860, p. 500-525
Joshua M. White, Slavery, Freedom Suits, and Legal Praxis in the Ottoman Empire, ca. 1590–1710, p. 526-556

GOVERNING CULTURE
Virág Molnár, Class Trips beyond Borders: Reimagining the Nation through State-Sponsored Heritage Tourism, p. 557-586
Markus Lähteenmäki, Michal Murawski, Blagoustroistvo: Infrastructure, Determinism, (Re-)coloniality, and Social Engineering in Moscow, 1917–2022, p. 587-615
Aeron O?Connor, Opera as Critical ?Synthesis?: Theorizing the Interface between Cosmopolitanism and Orientalism, p. 616-642

HIDDEN LIVES OF STATES
Megan Brankley Abbas, Balancing Hope and Fear: Muslim Modernists, Democracy, and the Tyranny of the Majority, p. 643-669
Elliott Prasse-Freeman, Reassessing Reification: Ethnicity amidst ?Failed? Governmentality in Burma and India, p. 670-701
Jethro Norman, Tensions of Modernity: Privilege, Precarity, and Colonial Nostalgia among European Security Contractors in East Africa, p. 702-722


a. 65, 2023, 2

RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY AND AUTHORIZING RELIGION
Audrey Truschke, Hindu: A History, p. 246-271
Ali-Reza Bhojani, Morgan Clarke, Religious Authority beyond Domination and Discipline: Epistemic Authority and Its Vernacular Uses in the Shi’i Diaspora, p. 272-295

MARKED BODIES AND (UN)MAKING KIN
Sarah Balakrishnan, Prison of the Womb: Gender, Incarceration, and Capitalism on the Gold Coast of West Africa, c. 1500–1957, p. 296-320
Farzin Vejdani, Branded Bodies: Judicial Torture, Punishment, and Infamy in Nineteenth-Century Iran, p. 321-345
Roberta Bivins, Pilot Programs and Postcolonial Pivots: Pioneering ?DNA Fingerprinting? on Britain?s Borders, p. 346-371

TIME-SPACES OF DECOLONIZING AFRICA
Kevin P. Donovan, Uhuru Sasa! Federal Futures and Liminal Sovereignty in Decolonizing East Africa, p. 372-398
Nana Osei-Opare, Ghana and Nkrumah Revisited: Lenin, State Capitalism, and Black Marxist Orbits, p. 399-421

FABULATIONS OF EMPTINESS AND FULLNESS
Caroline Ford, The Environmental Transformation of ?Empty Space?: From Desert to Forest in the Landes of Southwestern France, p. 422-445
Ay?e Parla, Hamlet after Genocide: The Haunting of Soghomon Tehlirian and Empirical Fabulation, p. 446-470

Erratum, p. 471


a. 65, 2023, 1

COMMENSURABILITIES
Martha Lampland, The Illusion of Abstraction, p. 4-26
Gina Anne Tam, ?Our Roots Are the Same?: Hegemony and Power in Narratives of Chinese Linguistic Antiquity, 1900–1949, p. 27-52

FRONTIER COMMODITIES
Tamara Fernando, Mapping Oysters and Making Oceans in the Northern Indian Ocean, 1880–1906, p. 53-80
Tomás Bartoletti, Global Territorialization and Mining Frontiers in Nineteenth-Century Brazil: Capitalist Anxieties and the Circulation of Knowledge between British and Habsburgian Imperial Spaces, ca. 1820–1850, p. 81-114

POLICE AND STRIKES IN COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL BUREAUCRACIES
Eilat Maoz, Black Police Power: The Political Moment of the Jamaica Constabulary, p. 115-140
Aaron G. Jakes, Peaceful Wars and Unlikely Unions: The Azhar Strike of 1909 and the Politics of Comparison in Egypt, p. 141-166

VICTIMS AND UNFORGIVENESS
Joshua E. Rigg, ?Why don?t I forgive? They didn?t ask for forgiveness!?: Manich Msamah and Tunisia?s Politics of Unforgiveness, p. 167-191
Anoush Tamar Suni, Palimpsests of Violence: Ruination and the Afterlives of Genocide in Anatolia, p. 192-218
Kristin Foringer, Defining Victimhood: The Political Construction of a ?Victim? Category in Colombia?s Congress, 2007–2011, p. 219-241


a. 64, 2022, 4

Editorial Foreword, p. 845-848

ENGINEERING ECOLOGY
Sarah E. Vaughn, Erosion by Design: Rethinking Innovation, Sea Defense, and Credibility in Guyana, p. 849-877
Alice Rudge, Cultivating ?Care?: Colonial Botany and the Moral Lives of Oil Palm at the Twentieth Century’s Turn, p. 878-909

CARE
Hans Steinmüller, Sovereignty as Care: Acquaintances, Mutuality, and Scale in the Wa State of Myanmar, p. 910-933
Catherine Alexander, The Simple Bare Necessities: Scales and Paradoxes of Thrift on a London Public Housing Estate, p. 934-965

ISLAM AND THE HISTORICAL IMAGINATION
Barbara D. Metcalf, A Sovereign and Virtuous Body: The Competent Muslim Woman’s Guide to Health in Thanawi’s Bihishtī Zēwar (1905), p. 966-993
Aaron Rock-Singer, The Rise of Islamic Society: Social Change, State Power, and Historical Imagination, p. 994-1023
Camille Lyans Cole, The Ottoman Model: Basra and the Making of Qajar Reform, 1881-1889, p. 1024-1054

ICONS AND INDEPENDENCE
Roger Canals, Celeste Muñoz, The Iconic Paths of La Verge de Montserrat in Catalonia and Beyond: A Comparative Approach from History and Anthropology, p. 1055-1087
Geoffrey Traugh, Reading Rostow in a Rhodesian Prison: Anticolonialism and the Reinvention of Modernization in British Central Africa, p. 1088-1117


a. 64, 2022, 3

Editorial Foreword, p. 537-540

LATERAL ARCHIVALITIES
Guy Burak, E. Natalie Rothman, Heather Ferguson, Toward Early Modern Archivality: The Perils of History in the Age of Neo-Eurocentrism, p. 541-575
Koh Choon Hwee, The Mystery of the Missing Horses: How to Uncover an Ottoman Shadow Economy, p. 576-610

SPIRITUAL WARES, RETRO KITSCH, AND THEORETICAL THINGS
Sarah Abrevaya Stein, Botánica Sephardica, p. 611-645
Krisztina Fehérváry, National Retro and the Re-mattering of History in Twenty-First-Century Hungary, p. 646-689
Xiaoxing Jin, The Evolution of Social Darwinism in China, 1895-1930, p. 690-721

LABOR IN THE WORLD-SYSTEM
Rafael de Bivar Marquese, A Tale of Two Coffee Colonies: Environment and Slavery in Suriname and Saint-Domingue, ca. 1750-1790, p. 722-755
Michael David Snodgrass, Dreams of Development in Mexico and Spain: A Comparative History of Guestworkers and Migration Diplomacy, p. 756-787

SOVEREIGNTIES COMPARED
Evguenia Davidova, Monarchism with a Human Face: Balkan Queens and the Social Politics of Nursing in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, p. 788-819
Devika Shankar, A Slippery Sovereignty: International Law and the Development of British Cochin, p. 820-844


a. 64, 2022, 2

Editorial Foreword, p. 259

THE VARIETIES OF MYSTICAL ISLAM
Pooyan Tamimi Arab, Can Muslims Drink? Rumi Vodka, Persianate Ideals, and the Anthropology of Islam, p. 263
Shozab Raza, The Sufi and the Sickle: Theorizing Mystical Marxism in Rural Pakistan, p. 300

NAMES, NARRATIVES, AND HIDDEN TRANSCRIPTS
Stuart Kirsch, Scientific Ghostwriting in the Amazon? The Role of Experts in the Lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador, p. 335
Iracema Dulley, Naming Others: Translation and Subject Constitution in the Central Highlands of Angola (1926-1961), p. 363
Alp Yenen, The Talat-Tehlirian Complex: Contentious Narratives of Martyrdom and Revenge in Post-Conflict Societies, p. 394

MEMORY ECONOMIES AND MORAL ECONOMIES
Hedwig A. Waters, Building Merit: The Moral Economy of the Illegal Wildlife Trade in Rural, Post-Socialist Eastern Mongolia, p. 422
Edward Murphy, Putting Neoliberalism in a Place: A Memory Site, Urban Restructuring, and Property’s Entanglements in Chile, p. 446
Christina Schwenkel, The Things They Carried (and Kept): Revisiting Ostalgie in the Global South, p. 478
Jean-Baptiste Pettier, “A question of bank notes, cars, and houses!” Matchmaking and the Moral Economy of Love in Urban China, p. 510


a. 64, 2022, 1

Editorial Foreword, p. 1

MORAL EXEMPLARITY AND THE ICONS OF FASCISM
Caroline Humphrey, The Slippages of Exemplary Action: The Case of Ataman Semenov, p. 4
Hannah Malone, The Fallen Soldier as Fascist Exemplar: Military Cemeteries and Dead Heroes in Mussolini’s Italy, p. 34
Adam Reed, Sympathy for Oswald Mosley: Politics of Reading and Historical Resemblance in the Moral Imagination of an English Literary Society, p. 63
ORDINARY FASCISM
Paolo Heywood, Ordinary Exemplars: Cultivating “the Everyday” in the Birthplace of Fascism, p. 91
Stephen Gundle, Mussolini between Hero Worship and Demystification: Exemplary Anecdotes, Petite Histoire, and the Problem of Humanization, p. 122

FASCIST REVIVALS, NEOFASCISM, AND THE YOUTH
Agnieszka Pasieka, “Tomorrow belongs to us”: Pathways to Activism in Italian Far-Right Youth Communities, p. 150
Nitzan Shoshan, Hitler, for Example: Registers of National Socialist Exemplarity in Contemporary Germany, p. 179
Francisco Ferrándiz, Francisco Franco Is Back: The Contested Reemergence of a Fascist Moral Exemplar, p. 208

PLAGUE NARRATIVES
Michael Meng, Writing on Death: Plague Narratives. A Review Essay, p. 238


a. 64, 2021, 4

Editorial Foreword, p. 765

SOVEREIGN AESTHETICS
Courtney Bender, Mrs. Rockefeller’s Exquisite Corpse768
Yaniv Feller, Whose Museum Is It? Jewish Museums and Indigenous Theory798

WAR AND LABOR DURING AND AFTER SLAVERY
Gervase Phillips, Laura Sandy, Slavery and the “American Way of War” 1607-1861, p. 825
John Higginson, Making Sense of “Senseless Violence”: Thoughts on Agrarian Elites and Collective Violence during “Reconstruction” in South Africa and the American South, p. 851

STATE-CORPORATION ALLIANCES
Veronika Kusumaryati, Freeport and the States: Politics of Corporations and Contemporary Colonialism in West Papua, p. 881
Marina Welker, Indonesia’s Cigarette Culture Wars: Contesting Tobacco Regulations in the Postcolony, p. 911

ON ARCHIVAL LACUNAE AND GENEALOGICAL GAPS
Zehra Hashmi, Making Reliable Persons: Managing Descent and Genealogical Computation in Pakistan, p. 948
Danna Agmon, Historical Gaps and Non-existent Sources: The Case of the Chaudrie Court in French India, p. 979

Corrigendum


a. 63, 2021, 3

Editorial Foreword, p. 531

ISLAM AND MASCULINITY
Michael G. Peletz, Hegemonic Muslim Masculinities and Their Others: Perspectives from South and Southeast Asia, p. 534

HIJACKING THE HUMAN
Matthias Van Rossum, Slavery and Its Transformations: Prolegomena for a Global and Comparative Research Agenda, p. 566
Sonia Rupcic, Mens Daemonica: Guilt, Justice, and the Occult in South Africa, p. 599
Charles Anderson, When Palestinians Became Human Shields: Counterinsurgency, Racialization, and the Great Revolt (1936-1939), p. 625

SENTIMENTAL STATES
Jon Piccini, Duncan Money, “A Fundamental Human Right”? Mixed-Race Marriage and the Meaning of Rights in the Postwar British Commonwealth, p. 655
Ed Pulford, Differences over Difference: Sino-Russian Friendship at Interstate and Interpersonal Scales, p. 685
Charles A. Mcdonald, Rancor: Sephardi Jews, Spanish Citizenship, and the Politics of Sentiment, p. 722

INEQUALITY IN PIKETTY
Richard Lachmann, Peter Brandon, Piketty and the Political Origins of Inequality, p. 752


a. 63, 2021, 2

Editorial Foreword, p. 277

EMPIRE AND ETHNICITY
Krishan Kumar, Colony and Empire, Colonialism and Imperialism: A Meaningful Distinction?, p. 280
Victor Lieberman, Ethnic Hatred and Universal Benevolence: Ethnicity and Loyalty in Precolonial Myanmar, and Britain, p. 310
Thomas R. Trautmann, Megasthenes on the Military Livestock of Chandragupta and the Making of the First Indian Empire, p. 339

SUBTERRANEAN POLITICS: SOIL AND COAL
Roberta Biasillo, Claiton Marcio Da Silva, The Very Grounds Underlying Twentieth-Century Authoritarian Regimes: Building Soil Fertility in Italian Libya and the Brazilian Cerrado, p. 366
Matthew Shutzer, Subterranean Properties: India’s Political Ecology of Coal, 1870-1975, p. 400

TEA LEAVES
Sarah Besky, The Plantation’s Outsides: The Work of Settlement in Kalimpong, India, p. 433
Christine Folch, Ceremony, Medicine, Caffeinated Tea: Unearthing the Forgotten Faces of the North American Stimulant Yaupon (Ilex vomitoria), p. 464

EMBODIED READING
Britt Halvorson, Ingie Hovland, Reconnecting Language and Materiality in Christian Reading: A Comparative Analysis of Two Groups of Protestant Women, p. 499


a. 63, 2021, 1

Editorial Foreword, p. 1

“BIG MEN” PASTS
Derek R. Peterson, Richard Vokes, Nelson Abiti, Edgar C. Taylor, The Unseen Archive of Idi Amin: Making History in a Tight Corner, p. 5
Wale Adebanwi, Burying “Zik of Africa”: The Politics of Death and Cultural Crisis, p. 41

MAKING HUMAN KINDS IN AFRICA AND CHINA
Jonathon Glassman, Toward a Comparative History of Racial Thought in Africa: Historicism, Barbarism, Autochthony, p. 72
Erik Mueggler, Rewriting Bondage: Literacy and Slavery in a Qing Native Domain, p. 99

MAPPING SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY
Michelle U. Campos, Mapping Urban “Mixing” and Intercommunal Relations in Late Ottoman Jerusalem: A Neighborhood Study, p. 133
Marieke Bloembergen, The Politics of “Greater India”, a Moral Geography: Moveable Antiquities and Charmed Knowledge Networks between Indonesia, India, and the West, p. 170

RELIGIOUS CONVERSION AT THE FRONTIER
Mathijs Pelkmans, Frontier Dynamics: Reflections on Evangelical and Tablighi Missions in Central Asia, p. 212
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, Becoming Armenian: Religious Conversions in the Late Imperial South Caucasus, p. 242

IN MEMORIAM
Thomas R. Trautmann, Raymond Grew 1930-2020, p. 273