Open to anyone with an interest in historical and contemporary movements of people, ideas, cultures and goods across boundaries. The aim is to encourage interdisciplinary conversations on a wide range of topics of transnational and global significance. These may include but are not necessarily limited to migration, trade, development, empire, consumption, food, sport, languages, literature, religion, technology, sexuality, law, health and environment.
Kapil Kafle deposited Practice of Women’s Rights in Himalayan Region Focused on Upper Mustang. in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month agoThis study is focused on the women and girls of 7 villages called Upper Mustang and middle Mustang in Mustang district. To explore the situation of women and girls with the angle of their rights as per the provisions made by international convention and national legal aspects is the main objective of the study. About 60 women and girls are…[Read more]
Stacy Fahrenthold deposited An Archaeology of Rare Books in Arab Atlantic History in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week agoPart of a larger roundtable series on Arab American histories for the Journal of American Ethnic History.
ALMUDENA CORTES MAISONAVE deposited Violencia de género y frontera: migrantes centroamericanas en México hacia los EEUU in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week agoEste texto analiza el caso de la migración centroamericana que migra en y por México desde una perspectiva de análisis antropológico y feminista aplicados a las recientes propuestas sobre los regímenes migratorios y de movilidad. Se busca reformular las preguntas tradicionales de investigación que presentan el papel de la violencia criminal como…[Read more]
Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Engendering Critique: Postnational Feminism in Postcolonial Syria,” Women Studies Quarterly 42.3/4 (2014): 209-229. in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoThe tension between feminism and national liberation is a commonplace of political mobilization across the postcolonial world. This essay traces how postcolonial nationalist and transnational feminist agendas were brought into conflict during the defense of a thesis on the novels of the Syrian writer Ghada al-Samman (b. 1942) that took place in…[Read more]
FABIO DIAZ deposited Truth, Justice and Reconciliation in Colombia in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks agoThe signing of the peace agreements between the FARC-EP and the Colombian Government in late November 2016 has generated new prospects for peace in Colombia, opening the possibility of redressing the harm inflicted on Colombians by Colombians.
Talking about peace and transitional justice requires us to think about how to operationalize peace…[Read more]
Marie-Thérèse Labossière Thomas deposited A Haitian Tale of Diasporas and Revolutions in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months, 3 weeks agoA family tale inspired the author to explore seemingly minor, but related details of the Saint-Domingue, French, and American Revolutions, including the population movements to and from the United States. “A Haitian Tale of Diasporas and Revolutions” is a documented historical and personal narrative through cultures and continents, as…[Read more]
Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Telling the Story of Literature from Inside Out: The Methods and Tools of Non-European Poetics,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 38(1): 170-180. in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 5 months, 2 weeks agoThis discussion of Innovations and Turning Points: Toward a History of Kāvya Literature (2014), a magisterial contribution to South Asian literature edited by Yigal Bronner, David Shulman, and Gary Tubb, situates this work within broader trends within the discipline of comparative literature and cross-cultural poetics. I consider how this volume…[Read more]
Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Punishing Violent Thoughts: Islamic Dissent and Thoreauvian Disobedience in post-9/11 America” in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 5 months, 3 weeks agoAmerican Muslims increasingly negotiate their relation to a government that is suspicious of Islam, yet which recognizes them as rights-bearing citizens, within a culture they claim as their own. To better understand how the post-9/11 state is reshaping American Islam, I examine the case of Muslim American dissident Tarek Mehanna, sentenced to…[Read more]
Ralph P. Locke deposited ‘Aida’ and Nine Readings of Empire in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 6 months agoThis paper assesses nine prominent readings of the imperial context/content of Verdi’s ‘Aida’ and offers a new perspective more adequate to basic tensions in the work. Readings have ranged from the literal (imperial Europe here stages an archaeological “ancient Egypt”) to the metaphorical (“Egypt” here is any repressive government). Or–somew…[Read more]
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Ralph P. Locke deposited Beyond the exotic: How in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 6 months agoCommentators often express disappointment that the music for the main characters in _Aida_ is not more distinctive, i.e., does not make much use of the exotic styles that mark the work’s ceremonial scenes and ballets. It has also been argued that exotic style-elements here are mostly confined to female, hence powerless, characters. Such…[Read more]
Lori Morimoto deposited “Transnational Media Fan Studies.” The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom. Suzanne Scott and Melissa Click, eds. (forthcoming in 2017, Routledge) in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 9 months, 2 weeks agoThe terms ‘fandom’, ‘fan’, and even ‘fan studies’ appear to be, at first glance, self- evident. But considered in the context of both fan cultures and scholarship outside the English language-centered West, we begin to see the assumptions that underlie them. Whether we are talking about Japanese fans of manga and anime (somewhat codified it…[Read more]
Markus Huss deposited The Linguistic Outlaw: Peter Weiss’s Return to German as Literary Language in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 11 months, 2 weeks agoThe chapter examines the German and Swedish language author Peter Weiss’s linguistic re-orientation in early postwar Sweden. Particular attention is devoted to metaphors of language and intermedial dynamics.
Anne Donlon deposited “A Black Man Replies”: Claude McKay’s Challenge to the British Left in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year agoAnne Donlon delves into the history of the British Left after World War I to assert the significance of the Black and feminist interventions of Claude McKay and Sylvia Pankhurst. Donlon centers the publication of “A Black Man Replies,” McKay’s letter to the editor published in Pankhurst’s newspaper The Worker’s Dreadnought, against white supremaci…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon deposited “A Black Man Replies”: Claude McKay’s Challenge to the British Left in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year agoAnne Donlon delves into the history of the British Left after World War I to assert the significance of the Black and feminist interventions of Claude McKay and Sylvia Pankhurst. Donlon centers the publication of “A Black Man Replies,” McKay’s letter to the editor published in Pankhurst’s newspaper The Worker’s Dreadnought, against white supremaci…[Read more]
