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Feminist solidarities: Theoretical and practical complexities (2020)
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© 2020 The Authors. Gender, Work & Organization published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd This article considers the resurgence of interest in feminist solidarity in theory and practice in the contemporary moment in the United States and UK. What does f... Read More about Feminist solidarities: Theoretical and practical complexities.

A Moment to Celebrate? Art of the Caribbean at the Venice Biennale (2020)
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In recent years, the sporadic presence of various Caribbean national pavilions at the Venice Biennale – Jamaica (2001), Haiti (2011), Bahamas (2013), Grenada (2015, 2017, 2019), Antigua and Barbuda (2017, 2019), Dominican Republic (2019) – has on eac... Read More about A Moment to Celebrate? Art of the Caribbean at the Venice Biennale.

From Russia with Love: Dissidents, Defectors and the Politics of Asylum in Cold War India (2020)
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During the Cold War defectors were invariably paraded as propaganda trophies. The wider political significance of defections has hitherto been interrogated almost exclusively in an East–West binary. Utilising recently declassified documents from thre... Read More about From Russia with Love: Dissidents, Defectors and the Politics of Asylum in Cold War India.

The Novel of American Authoritarianism (2020)
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Fictional literature portraying the descent of the United States into dictatorship is assessed critically and divided into three cultural-historical phases, each specific in class modality. Ignatius Donnelly’s Caesar’s Column (1890) and Jack London’... Read More about The Novel of American Authoritarianism.

William Dean Howells's Periodical Time (2019)
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© 2019 by Arizona Board of Regents. This essay uses the example of William Dean Howells to redefine periodical time and suggest new ways in which extraliterary time manifests itself in literary form and content. Howells spent his early life typesetti... Read More about William Dean Howells's Periodical Time.

Fake News, Forgery, and Falsification: Western Responses to Soviet Disinformation in Cold War India (2019)
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This paper examines Soviet Cold War disinformation activity in India. It recovers the importance of nonaligned nations in the story of Cold War covert propaganda. Over the course of a decade, that began with the outbreak of the Sino-Indian border war... Read More about Fake News, Forgery, and Falsification: Western Responses to Soviet Disinformation in Cold War India.

The long shadow of colonial cartography: Britain and the Sino-Indian war of 1962 (2019)
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© 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article examines British responses to the Sino-Indian border war of 1962. It illustrates how, in the years leading up to the war, Britain’s colonial legacy in the Indian subcontinen... Read More about The long shadow of colonial cartography: Britain and the Sino-Indian war of 1962.

Susan Ryan. The Moral Economies of American Authorship: Reputation, Scandal, and the Nineteenth-Century Marketplace (2018)
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A full freedom: Contemporary survivors' definitions of slavery (2018)
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© 2018 The Author(s). This article examines key debates on the legal definition of slavery from the perspective of survivors. This group has previously not been included in the debates on slavery definitions. By drawing upon new interviews we have co... Read More about A full freedom: Contemporary survivors' definitions of slavery.

Women who work: the limits of the Neoliberal feminist paradigm (2018)
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This article examines Ivanka Trump's Women Who Work, arguing that it represents the newest permutation of the neoliberal feminist subject. After providing an overview of the recent emergence of neoliberal feminism, I explain why the book should be co... Read More about Women who work: the limits of the Neoliberal feminist paradigm.

The art of postcolonial politics in the age of empire: Haiti’s object lesson at the World’s Columbian Exposition (2018)
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© 2018 Institute of Historical Research. This article explores how representatives of the Caribbean’s first postcolonial state undertook the project of displaying Haitian nationhood during the age of empire. It challenges current understandings of Ha... Read More about The art of postcolonial politics in the age of empire: Haiti’s object lesson at the World’s Columbian Exposition.

Murder on the Kansas City Special? Pullman Porters, Emotions, and the Strange Case of J. H. Wilkins (2018)
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J. H. Wilkins, an African American railroad porter for the Pullman Company, was killed while on duty in April 1930. How he met his death has never been fully determined, but the Pullman Company’s investigation file exposes the dangerous and racialise... Read More about Murder on the Kansas City Special? Pullman Porters, Emotions, and the Strange Case of J. H. Wilkins.

The seriality dividend of American magazines (2018)
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This essay argues that the preconsumption cycle of material creation and supply exerted powerful effects as periodicals journeyed from paper mill to reader. So powerful were these effects that they generated a “seriality dividend,” or a return on fin... Read More about The seriality dividend of American magazines.

Heywood Broun, Benjamin Stolberg, and the politics of American labor journalism in the 1920s and 1930s (2018)
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Between the First and Second World Wars, Heywood Broun (1888-1939) and Benjamin Stolberg (1891-1951) were labor journalists when the newspaper industry was consolidating into chains and industrial unionism was gaining in American society. A compariso... Read More about Heywood Broun, Benjamin Stolberg, and the politics of American labor journalism in the 1920s and 1930s.

Ray watching: the highly protected, British prison experience of Martin Luther King’s killer (2017)
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The arrest of James Earl Ray at London Airport on 8 June 1968 marked the final stage of an international manhunt that had begun with the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. on 4 April. Arrested for travelling on a false passport and with an unlicensed f... Read More about Ray watching: the highly protected, British prison experience of Martin Luther King’s killer.

The political perils of Cold War foreign relations: Adlai Stevenson’s democrats and foreign policy in the 1956 presidential election (2017)
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This article uses the case of the 1956 presidential election between Adlai Stevenson and Dwight Eisenhower to highlight the ways that an obsession with foreign relations could, in fact, prove problematic to a campaign. Focusing primarily on Stevenson... Read More about The political perils of Cold War foreign relations: Adlai Stevenson’s democrats and foreign policy in the 1956 presidential election.

American scientists and their fictions: professional authorship and intellectual identity, 1870-1900 (2017)
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press and British Association for American Studies 2017 Writers and critics in the Gilded Age United States frequently debated the relations between literature and science. A common contemporary interpretation of this... Read More about American scientists and their fictions: professional authorship and intellectual identity, 1870-1900.

The Information Research Department, British covert propaganda, and the Sino-Indian War of 1962: combating communism and courting failure? (2017)
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Britain's post-war interventions in former colonial territories remain a controversial area of contemporary history. In the case of India, recent releases of official records in the United Kingdom and South Asia have revealed details of British gover... Read More about The Information Research Department, British covert propaganda, and the Sino-Indian War of 1962: combating communism and courting failure?.

Neoliberal feminism and the future of human capital (2017)
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Writing settlement after Idle No More: non-indigenous responses in Anglo-Canadian poetry (2017)
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This article examines the representation of settlement in Canada in the wake of Idle No More in recent Anglo-Canadian literature. It argues that Idle No More engendered a new vocabulary for settler-invader citizens to position themselves in relation... Read More about Writing settlement after Idle No More: non-indigenous responses in Anglo-Canadian poetry.