Special Issues
Volume 20, Number 1: The Public Life of History
Winter 2008
Neeladri Battacharya delves into the politics of secular history in India; Faisal Devji considers the recent crisis at the Red Mosque in Islamabad; Deborah Posel explores the centrality of confession, and its relationship to victimhood, in South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission; and more…
Volume 19, Number 1: Cultures of Democracy
Winter 2007
Dipesh Chakrabarty investigates the idea of the political in the context of postcolonial India; Carlos Forment examines the relationship between football clubs and the 2003 municipal elections in Buenos Aires; Charles Taylor considers the consequences of expressive individualism for our notions of political efficacy; Lisa Wedeen examines qāt chew gatherings as a form of public sphere practice in Yemen; and more…
Volume 17, Number 2: 100 Years of The Souls of Black Folk: A Celebration of W. E. B. Du Bois
Spring 2005
Volume 16, Number 3: Johannesburg—The Elusive Metropolis
Fall 2004