Comparative Studies in Society & History journal publishes multidisciplinary research, cultural and area studies, and innovative ventures in theory and methods.
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Our summer issue is out! Articles in this issue are grouped under the rubrics: Imperial Translations; Palimpsestic Frontiers; Scales of Racialization; and Agrarian Revolutions.
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Now on FirstView, Deniz Kozlov's "A View from the Italian Side: Transit Migrants from the Soviet Union in Italy during the 1970s and 1980s." #OpenAccess #SovietUnion #Italy
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Our newest On the Playlist track is out! In this interview, Mina Khanlarzadeh answers our questions about epistemic #translation, the fokoli, and the relationship between translation and modernization, cultural alienation, and decolonization.
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Find her CSSH essay, "Epistemic Translation of #Modernity: Negotiating Science and Technology under Semi-Colonial Conditions," here:
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In "Home, Travel, Prayer," we catch up with Mandana Limbert about her 2026 Jack Goody Award-winning essay, "#Homeland is Where the Soul Resides: Travel Prayer, Passports, and Nation in the Western Indian Ocean."
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New scholarship on FirstView! Don't miss Anirban Karak's "Coerced Labor, #Caste, and Aspirations for Liberty in Early Nineteenth-Century #Bengal: Revisiting the Antislavery Debate from South Asia." #OpenAccess
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Enjoy our new On the #Syllabus, Beyond Borders: #Diaspora and the Politics of Belonging. "The essays in this syllabus ask the readers to both traverse and transcend boundary lines as they follow migrants’ journeys towards home, wherever that may be."
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In "Racing #Work/Working #Race," @sholleykline, Alan Covey, & Emilio Ramírez respond to one another's essays on the imposition of racial categories in 20th-c. Guatemala and 16th-c. Peru. The overlaps and divergences produce fascinating new possibilities.
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Can we trust the gut? In our latest Behind the Scenes, Alice Yao reveals what she learned by exploring "the noise in the data" on lactose intolerance--findings ignored in biracial approaches to the study of metabolism.
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Matt Tomlinson's review essay, "Heal Thyself," is available on FirstView! The essay explores four titles on the topics of #mindfulness, #ayahuasca use, #Spiritualism, and #shamanism. #OpenAccess
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We are excited to add a new book by @mshutzer, winner of the 2022 Jack Goody Award, to our summer reading list! Find details about it, and other recent books by CSSH authors, here:
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We are thrilled to announce that the winner of the 2026 Jack Goody Award is Mandana Limbert, for her essay, "Homeland Is Where the Soul Resides: Travel Prayer, Passports, and Nation in the Western Indian Ocean” (67-2, 2025). Congratulations!
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Find the award-winning essay, described by our jury as "an elegant and sophisticated exploration of political belonging that transcends the scope of classical frameworks of social and political theory," here:
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Tobias Kelly's "Private Detectives: #Investigation, #Privacy and Personal Information in Britain, 1965–1975" examines how the work of private investigators "opens wider questions about who should be able to know what about whom." #policing #OpenAccess
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A new essay by Lâle Can (@laleh_joon), "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
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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 from practice to “form.”"
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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
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A new paper in the Comparative Studies in Society and History examines how one of the vital building blocks of British power in India took shape. The paper is Open Access, download and read at doi.org/10.1017/S00104175261….
CSSH congratulates Kristen Alff and Matei Candea on their latest publications!
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Learn more about this issue's authors, including Önder Eren Akgül, Nora Elizabeth Barakat, R. Alan Covey, @sholleykline, Mina Khanlarzadeh, Leo Ramirez, Alessandro Rippa, @whywinter, Alice Yao, and Emrah Yıldız, here:
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