https://www.globalhistories.com/index.php/GHSJ/issue/feedGlobal Histories: A Student Journal2023-11-06T13:53:57+01:00Phoebe Ngadmin@globalhistories.comOpen Journal Systems<p>In response to the increasing interest in the "global" as a field of inquiry, a perspective, and an approach, <em>Global Histories: A Student Journal</em> aims to offer a platform for debate, discussion and intellectual exchange for a new generation of scholars with diverse research interests. Global history can provide an opportunity to move beyond disciplinary boundaries and methodological centrisms, both in time and space. As students of global history at Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, our interest lies not in prescribing what global history is and what it is not, but to encourage collaboration, cooperation, and discourse among students seeking to explore new intellectual frontiers.</p>https://www.globalhistories.com/index.php/GHSJ/article/view/570Re-thinking the “Region” in (Global) History2023-04-17T00:17:39+02:00Leon Julius Biela<p>While historians frequently use the term “region”, little thought is given to what “regions” are. This methodological essay explores the concepts of the “region” used in current historical scholarship and especially in global history, discussing their problems and potential. Drawing on ideas from spatial theory and human geography, the essay considers how an analytically viable conceptualization of the “region” would look. Overall, the essay contends that working out theoretically informed spatial concepts is essential for (global) history, and argues that a more reflective use of the “region” will open up new perspectives for (global) historical research.</p>2023-11-06T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2023 Leon Julius Bielahttps://www.globalhistories.com/index.php/GHSJ/article/view/627Impressum/Contents2023-11-01T16:19:04+01:00Phoebe Ka Laam Ng<p>Impressum/Contents, <em>Global Histories </em>9.1</p>2023-11-06T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2023 Phoebe Ka Laam Nghttps://www.globalhistories.com/index.php/GHSJ/article/view/626Editorial Letter/Acknowledgements2023-11-01T16:17:08+01:00Phoebe Ka Laam Ng<p>Editorial Letter/Acknowledgements, <em>Global Histories </em>9.1</p>2023-11-06T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2023 Phoebe Ka Laam Nghttps://www.globalhistories.com/index.php/GHSJ/article/view/555Review: Everyday Cosmopolitanisms: Living the Silk Road in Medieval Armenia -- by Kate Franklin2023-04-13T14:51:19+02:00Clara Leeder<p><em>Everyday Cosmopolitanisms: Living the Silk Road in Medieval Armenia</em>. By Kate Franklin. N.p.: University of California Press, 2021. Paperback: £30.00. Pp. 204. ISBN: 9780520380929.</p> <p>In the underrepresented field of the premodern history of the Caucasus, Kate Franklin’s book <em>Everyday Cosmopolitanisms: Living the Silk Road in Medieval Armenia </em>is an exciting new project that builds on scarce source materials and employs innovative approaches to studying the region. By describing archaeological findings, creating maps and embedding these studies into a broad historical narrative, the author paints a picture of the imaginative worlds that travellers’ accounts and other texts created and what larger role local Armenian hosts played in this context.</p>2023-11-06T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2023 Clara Leederhttps://www.globalhistories.com/index.php/GHSJ/article/view/552Review: Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border -- by Malini Sur2023-03-31T19:29:03+02:00Lennart Vincent Schmidt<p><em>Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border</em>. By Malini Sur. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. Hardcover: $75.00. Pp. 248. ISBN: 9780812252798.</p> <p><em>Jungle Passports</em> provides a people-centred understanding of borders by creating the concept of "border societies". Sur counters the national narrative through this concept, which frames the communities living on the border as either "criminals or victims". Moreover, her "ethnographic and historical fieldwork" challenges the idea of the traditional archive by using the ever-changing landscape of the Indian–Bangladesh borderland as an archive to analyze the dynamics and societal transformation of the region.</p>2023-11-06T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2023 Lennart Vincent Schmidthttps://www.globalhistories.com/index.php/GHSJ/article/view/572Rowing as a Site of Cross-Cultural Encounters: South-Asian Students at Oxbridge, 1870s-1940s2023-04-11T23:41:22+02:00Loïc Folton<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This article focuses on the social and imperial history of South-Asian students competing in rowing at Oxford and Cambridge from the 1870s to the 1940s. I argue that rowing was a site of colonial encounters and student integration between white, British and racialised, South-Asian men through normative discourses based on such social criteria as race, gender and class. This inquiry aims to embed Oxbridge and their students further within the British Empire. I first suggest a historiographical account of rowing through the lens of social and Empire history since the 1980s. I then analyse Oxbridge visual and material culture on rowing as early as the 1870s. I finally study rowing-related, bodily encounters, focusing on students at Balliol College, Oxford between 1889 and 1949. By cross-referencing a diversity of sources, such as student periodicals, minutes books and photographs, I wish to comprehend rowing at the level of individuals in the very making of the British Empire.</span></p>2023-11-06T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2023 Loïc Foltonhttps://www.globalhistories.com/index.php/GHSJ/article/view/564Caring for Algeria(ns): Care work, the EMSI, and colonisation in the Algerian War of Independence as told by woman care workers (1954-1962)2023-04-15T18:30:19+02:00Quincy Mackay<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This essay explores the role of a little-studied institution, the </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Équipes médico-sociales itinérantes </span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Mobile Medico-Social Teams, EMSI), in the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962). Run by the French army in their programme of </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">pacification</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the EMSI sent French and France-aligned women into rural villages across the Algerian territory, with the aim of making closer contact with these rural populations through medical aid and social engagement. Their aims were steeped in the colonial, proselytising language of the civilising mission, while the women carrying out the work in the field had their own nuanced and diverse motivations for engaging in this humanitarian work. Drawing on these women’s own voices, this study examines the EMSI from the bottom up, giving a new perspective on care work and humanitarian engagement in colonial contexts. </span></p>2023-11-06T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2023 Quincy Mackayhttps://www.globalhistories.com/index.php/GHSJ/article/view/565A “Child of our Empire”?: Epistemic Rupture and Anticolonial Consciousness in Interwar Paris2023-04-14T10:56:08+02:00Ananya Agustin Malhotra<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This article argues that a growing number of students from French colonial contexts in Paris following World War I sought to reckon with colonialism as a phenomenon requiring epistemic revolution. Reading surveillance reports and personal papers alongside periodicals and newspapers, this work of global intellectual history situates anticolonial student groups, intellectuals, and activists like the Martinican surrealist René Ménil (1907-2004) and Vietnamese phenomenologist Tran Duc Thao (1917-93) in a transnational context. It situates developments in anticolonial thought within histories of French colonial education, a growing transnational anticolonial consciousness, and the new artistic and philosophical traditions of surrealism and phenomenology in the 1920s and 30s. First, I outline the colonial motivations of Third Republic education to cultivate an Antillean and Indochinese elite through admission to and scholarships for France’s </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">grandes écoles</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Secondly, I show the connections between the “epistemological rupture” in intellectual and artistic disciplines following World War I, including the developments of surrealism and phenomenology, and the growing transnational consciousness amongst left-wing anticolonial groups in Paris. In doing so, I argue that anticolonial student groups in the late 1920s began articulating the necessity for intellectual and cultural emancipation as a precursor for political decolonisation, often turning to transnational sources. I conclude by looking closely at the anticolonial writings of Tran Duc Thao in </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Les Temps Modernes</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and the anticolonial student-run journal </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Légitime Défense</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (1932), which Ménil co-founded, as a product of these intersections. </span></p>2023-11-06T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2023 Ananya Agustin Malhotrahttps://www.globalhistories.com/index.php/GHSJ/article/view/557“Blood is the Symbol of Afro-Asia”: Afro-Asian Imaginings of Past, Present, and Future Violence during the Bandung Era2023-04-15T15:36:57+02:00Edward Yuan<p style="font-weight: 400;">Scholars often point to the Bandung Conference as a major event in the history of decolonization. However, this perspective relies on an interstate and developmentalist reading of anticolonialism that ultimately failed with the debt crises of the 1980s, the emergence of neoliberalism, and the death of the Bandung project. This paper offers a shift in focus by exploring the grassroot networks of Afro-Asian decolonization in the Bandung era and their preoccupation with redemptive violence in order to offer a more revolutionary imagining of the Bandung Spirit and to highlight its continued relevance rather than its eventual demise.</p>2023-11-06T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2023 Edward Yuan