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3 results in Critical, Connected Histories

Monsoon Asia
  • A Reader on South and Southeast Asia
  • Edited by David Henley, Nira Wickramasinghe
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    04 January 2025
    Print publication:
    15 January 2023
  • Monsoon Asia was the first venue of global trade, a zone of encounters, exchanges, and cultural diffusion. This book demonstrates the continuing fertility of the Monsoon Asia perspective as an aid to understanding what South/Southeast Asia, as a connected space, has been in the past and is today. Sixteen tightly knit chapters, written by experts from perspectives ranging from Indology and philology to postcolonial and transnational studies, offer a captivating view of the region, with its rich and variegated history shaped by commonalities in human ecology, cultural forms, and religious practices. The contributions draw upon extensive research and a thorough command of the most recent scholarship. This volume will be an invaluable text for anyone interested in South and Southeast Asia, and for more specialized students in the fields of global and Indian Ocean history, transcultural studies, archaeology, linguistics, and politics.

Ishikawa Sanshirō's Geographical Imagination
  • Transnational Anarchism and the Reconfiguration of Everyday Life in Early Twentieth-Century Japan
  • Nadine Willems
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    04 January 2025
    Print publication:
    08 March 2020
  • Antiestablishment ideas in contemporary Japan are tied closely to its recent history of capitalist development and industrialization. Activist Ishikawa Sanshirō exemplifies this idea, by merging European and Japanese thought throughout the early twentieth century. Ishikawa Sanshirō's Geographical Imagination investigates the emergence of a strand of nonviolent anarchism and uses it to reassess the role of geographic thought in modern Japan as both a tool for political dissent and a basis for dialogue between radical thinkers and activists from the East and West. By tracing Ishikawa's travels, intellectual interests, and real-life encounters, Nadine Willems identifies a transnational 'geographical imagination' that valued ethics of cooperation in the social sphere and explored the interactions between man and nature. Additionally, this work explores anarchist activism and the role played by the practices of everyday life as a powerful force of sociopolitical change.

Bureaucrats of Liberation
  • Southern African and American Lawyers and Clients During the Apartheid Era
  • Myra Ann Houser
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    18 December 2024
    Print publication:
    05 March 2020
  • Bureaucrats of Liberation narrates the history of the Southern Africa Project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Right under law, a civil rights organization founded in 1963 at the request of President John F. Kennedy. Between 1963 and 1994, the Southern Africa Project connected lawyers from Namibia, South Africa, and the United States. Within the Project's network, activist lawyers exchanged funding resources, provided logistical support for political trials, and mediated new voting and governmental systems. The Project's history provides a lens into twentieth century geopolitics tied to anti-apartheid, decolonization, Cold War, and movements agitating against white supremacy. In doing so, it pays careful attention to the Project's different eras, beginning with US Executive Branch officials helming the effort and evolving into a space where more activist-oriented attorneys on both sides of the Atlantic drove its mission and politics.