5/5 [...] Paradoxically, however, it shows how the minorities that were the victims of these ideas also contributed to them, complicating standard accounts and demanding new frameworks." Here is the original article:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

4/5 [...] It argues that decolonisation was defined by an “immediate” relation to sovereignty that was threatened by the apparently mediating presence and function of minorities, who were often expelled or exiled in the early post-colonial period. [...]

3/5 [...] I have since developed these arguments into a monograph provisionally titled “Vanishing Mediators: A History of Decolonisation,” which narrates that tumultuous but conceptually fertile period from the vantage point of its ostensible victims. [...]

2/5 "That article and the special issue "Refusing Minority, Recasting Islam" was an attempt to think comparatively about how minorities remade Islam in the twentieth century, usually by recourse to universalist claims." [...]

9/9 The issue comes to close with a book review. K. Shaheen (Kannur University) reviews "The Islamic Law in Circulation: Shāfiʿī Texts across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean" (Black Pepper Books / @universitypress.cambridge.org, 2022) by Mahmood Kooria www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

8/9 Boris Popivanov (Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski) looks into the legacy of Dimitar Blagoev (1856–1924), a key founder of Bulgarian socialism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

7/9 Following this, @lucaspoy.bsky.social (@vuamsterdam.bsky.social) investigates "The Influence of Enrico Ferri in Late-Nineteenth Century Argentine Socialism" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

6/9 Banu Turnaoğlu (Sabancı Üniversitesi / University of Cambridge) writes on "Early Socialism and the Impact of the Paris Commune on the Ottoman Political Imagination in the Nineteenth Century" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

5/9 "Owen and the Engineers" - Claudia Roesch (@uni-konstanz.de) looks into "Cross-Fertilization between Engineering and Early Socialism in the Owenite Tradition" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

4/9 Next up, Stanisław Knapowski (UAM Poznań) explores the phalanstère of Charles Fourier (1772-1837) in "The Social Palace as a Medium for the Transfer and Transformation of Ideas in Early Socialism" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

3/9 @pkuligowski.bsky.social (Polish Academy of Sciences|) offers "Discussing Pauperism in mid-Nineteenth Century Poland and Russia: A Study of Conceptual Transfers to the Imperial Heartland and Peripheries", focussing on Henryk Kamieński and Vladimir A. Milyutin www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

2/9 @ekwiecin.bsky.social (Polish Academy of Sciences) examines revolutionary Ukrainian ideas: "‘And There Will Be No Russian Tsar and No Polish Lord…’: The Ukrainian Populist Utopia of the Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius in a Transnational Perspective" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

5/5 The process of writing deepened my understanding of how the tradition of historical writing continues to influence contemporary views of world order and China’s place within it." Read the original piece here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

4/5 This research revealed how intellectuals and the government continue to use historical narratives to justify China’s modern aspirations for global leadership while framing its rise as distinct from Western models. [...]

3/5 [...] to the modern elevation of world history as a first-class discipline, I came to appreciate how historiography has been a vehicle for redefining national identity. [...]

2/5 "Writing this article allowed me to explore how Chinese historiography has long shaped intellectual and political perspectives on China’s role in the world. Tracing the evolution from traditional chronicles, which placed foreign histories as subordinate to China’s own, [...]