Während sich die Hauptliteratur der Globalgeschichte teilweise als Nachfolger der europäischen imperialen Geschichte mit einem neuen Rahmen und zum Teil als Erklärung der „globalisierten“ Gegenwart positioniert hat, konnten die Kritiken, insbesondere aus afrikanisch-historischer Perspektive, kaum Auswirkungen auf ihre deterministischen und euroze…[Read more]

The marine diplomacy of Tripoli in the Qaramanlı era was deeply shaped by the Ottoman Foreign Jurisdiction. Yet, especially Yusuf Paşa with his tadbir (Ar.) [governing through taking measures] application carried the implication of this jurisdiction to a global tributary system that all European states as well as USA obeyed. The ignorance of the h…[Read more]

Three salient political-economic patterns – (1) agriculture and craft production with trade, (2) war economy, (3) economy of exploitation – in the Sokoto Caliphate have been inquired under the triple system by scrutinizing their similar and dissimilar features, their autonomous and interdependent characters, and their connected and dis…[Read more]

Osmanlılar’ın 19. yüzyılın ikinci yarısında merkezi Sahra bölgesindeki genişlemesi ve uygulanan politikalar, arşiv materyallerinin iki ülke (Libya ve Türkiye) arasında düzensiz bir şekilde dağılmış olması sebebiyle bugüne değin keşfedilmeden kalmaya devam etmiştir. İki ülke arşivlerinin yoğun bir analizi sonucunda ortaya çıkan yeni kayıtlar ve…[Read more]

African Migration in Turkey is an under-researched area despite the long history of migration between West Africa and the Ottoman Empire and the large number of African migrants in Turkey. The connection of this historical and contemporary migration movement with commodity production reveals not only the basic dynamics and patterns but also the…[Read more]

Galib’in mesnevisindeki aşk hikayesi tahtlar, hazineler, keşifler ve ordularla bezenmiş bir emperyal düştür aynı zamanda. Sonunda kutsanan şey mistik boyutlara taşınmış mutlak sayılan siyasi otoritedir. Âşık olunan, kendisine tam bağlılığı esas bildiren, göze gelmeyen ama gözünden hiçbir şey kaçmayan bir yönetim tahayyülüdür. Bu hayalde nefs…[Read more]

Drawing on archival work conducted in South Africa, the UK and Lesotho, and on oral histories collected in 2021–2023, this article historicises the experiences of Basotho living along the Lesotho–South Africa border. It focuses primarily on the part of eastern Free State designated during the apartheid era as the Basotho ‘Homeland’ of QwaQwa…[Read more]

As a political model for the young democracy in interwar Romania, as a protector against threats to the sovereignty and integrity of the state, as a cultural model, and as a daily life, America represented for Romania a reference point, a factor of stability and progress. America was a model and ally of the civilized world!
Unfortunately,…[Read more]

Linear time is out of joint with and oppressive to alternate bodies, minds, and lives in a plethora of ways. In recent years, critical interventions such as Alison Kafer’s crip time and Elizabeth Freeman’s chrononormativity have revealed the oppressive force of time on marginalised groups. The time loop structure inherently complicates the lin…[Read more]

This essay reads Mary Wortley Montagu’s The Turkish Embassy Letters (1763)
as an entry point for an investigation of the entwinement between the
British anti-Black racial consciousness and orientalist rhetoric concerning
the Ottoman Empire. Montagu’s racially marked depictions of women in
Ottoman lands not only reveal the limits of her cap…[Read more]

The Japan Times quoted the author extensively in a recent article on bilingual education. The reporter agreed to share the full interview with the Japan Association for Language Teaching Bilingualism Special Interest Group (JALT Bilingualism SIG) publication Bilingual Japan. Asked why the level of English in Japan remains low, the author goes well…[Read more]

Why are we stuck here and how do we move forward? Amidst escalating global crises and growing climate anxiety, “5 Ideas from Global Diplomacy” offers actionable recommendations to aspiring changemakers to close the compliance gap between political commitment and action, and advance the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. The book journeys beyond…[Read more]

The pandemic-imposed lockdowns and the shift to remote work during COVID-19 have fundamentally changed the notion of the workplace as workers are forced to work from home. Tech work, in particular, seems especially adept at adjusting to this disruption as much of existing labor practices are already digitally-mediated via software and platforms.…[Read more]

This biography of the German medical doctor and minerologist Diederich Wessel Linden (fl.1745-1768; d.1769) is the edited and published version in the Dictionary of Welsh Biography. The article discusses Linden’s life, scientific research on mineral waters and their medicinal use.

March 1, 2018 was the day of study organized by the CEREAP-CRILLASH on the theme: ‘Cartographies and Identity Topology’ at the University of the West Indies. ‘Route to Find the Geography of Self’ is the title of the work produced by the artist David Né. This creation, which is both pictorial and performative, embraces the concept of the card in…[Read more]