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...

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...

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...

Excited to share my open access article on Ottoman exile in @csshjournal.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

CSSH Journal@csshjournal.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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.

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

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CSSH Journal@csshjournal.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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!

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...

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.

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...