Our new issue is out and fully #OpenAccess! Articles in this issue are grouped under the rubrics: Marital Strategies; Institutional Power; Imperial Geographies; and Long Histories. #Anthropology #History #Sociology.

The latest at CSSH: Peng Hai's "“The Kimono and the Turban” Revisited: Charting #Turkestan in Imperial #Japan’s Muslim Policy." #maps #History.

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CSSH is excited to announce that Elizabeth Chatterjee (@natterjee) is the winner of the 2025 Goody Award! Our judges deemed her essay, Towards an Energetics of Class: Comparing Energy Protests in India & the U.S., "comparative social science at its best.".

CSSH highlights new books by former journal authors Joseph Masco, Judith Scheele, and Margaret J. Wiener!.

Our latest Under the Rubric, "Submergent Histories," features Mandana Limbert, Jan Jansen, and Jeffrey Kahn discussing how the study of #mobility at #sea can isolate historical processes that, wherever they are found, remain at depth and hard to discern.

"The objective is not just to show the limitations of national archives as a source of historical material, but also to show how actually existing “state archives” go well beyond the remit of official institutions, with notable consequences over our conception of the state.".

New work by @celkhachab, "Notes on the Difficulty of Studying State #Archives in #Egypt," is out on FirstView! .

Frederick Cooper's "Decolonizing #Decolonization" is out on FirstView: "This article poses the question of what work the concept of decolonization can and cannot do." #Russia #Africa #Empire #History.

In our latest Behind the Scenes, "Runways and Relations," Carla Jones analyzes a series of images to show how the public #catwalk operates as a platform for political communication in #Indonesia. Don't miss it!.

From the abstract: "This paper examines how, in politically polarized contexts, people reconstruct the biographies of contested memorialized figures to challenge or reproduce dualistic metanarratives of national history.".

New to FirstView, "Theorizing #Moral Liminality: Historical Biography, Political Co-optation, and the Decolonization of Public Space" from @AndrejaSiliunas and @CresaPugh! #Sociology #Scotland #Lithuania .

New scholarship on FirstView! David Frankfurter's "#Ritual and the Enemy Body: A New Approach to Modern Atrocity." #Violence #History #Anthropology.

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Find her related article, "Topographies of Fungibility: Reinventing the Japanese Taste for Sweetness in the Philippine Highlands," here:.

In our latest Behind the Scenes, Alyssa Paredes @pare_desu compares highland bananas to other luxury fruits and describes how the banana disrupted assumptions about Japanese palates and sensitivities to taste. Bon appétit!.