Carole McGranahan's Co-Authored Peer-Reviewed Article Published in History and Anthropology Journal
Professor Carole McGranahan has published a new peer-reviewed article in History and Anthropology Journal. Co-authored with Deborah A. Thomas, the piece is titled "Disconnected Histories: Cold War Empires in the 21st Century." The article examines the ongoing influence of imperial power structures in the modern era.
Abstract
In this essay, Carole McGranahan and Deborah A. Thomas juxtapose experiences in Jamaica and the Himalayas to attend to the affective dimensions of the Cold War. Arguing that the Cold War stood as an emergent form of empire within already imperial worlds, they show how it reverberates in the present in ways that connect far-flung places that aren't typically brought into relation. If the Cold War did not constitute a rupture, then how might we think about the forms it took (and continues to take) across space and time? How do we think about the ways it has shaped friendships and conflicts, connections and dispossessions, in the everyday lives of people everywhere?
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