{"title":"Digital sovereignty–European Union's action plan needs a common understanding to succeed","authors":"Martin Kaloudis","doi":"10.1111/hic3.12698","DOIUrl":"10.1111/hic3.12698","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the states of the European Union (EU), the question currently raised is to what extent dependence on technologies from the USA and China will have a lasting impact on state sovereignty. The concept of digital sovereignty represents the EU's efforts to compensate for the deficits of the past decades caused by an inadequate positioning of Europe as a location for software and hardware development. Autocratic states use the path of digital autarky, the USA a path of liberalisation and high degrees of openness. In the EU, on the other hand, regulation, data protection and liberal values developed over centuries play a major role in the less pronounced IT development. The path of European states to more digital sovereignty has been addressed politically as an “action plan”, but there is still no common understanding or definition of what digital sovereignty exactly means, where the EU and thus also an individual European state stands. There is a lack of a target and a measurable index as well as evaluated measures derived from it. The present article articulates the basis, namely the common understanding and the definition of digital sovereignty. It places the concepts of digitalisation and state sovereignty in a historical framework and locates them in the current literature, then analyses digital sovereignty as a composite term and places it in the context of current research. Finally, a definition is proposed that can serve as the basis for further research to identify an index of digital sovereignty. This definition can also become the basis for EU legislation to implement the “action plan”.</p>","PeriodicalId":46376,"journal":{"name":"History Compass","volume":"19 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46313566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The representation of the Algerian War in French high school history textbooks","authors":"Sara Mechkarini","doi":"10.1111/hic3.12696","DOIUrl":"10.1111/hic3.12696","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Before the 1980s, France's colonial past, and in particular the Algerian Independence War, featured among the blind spots of the official curriculum for <i>lycéens</i> – or high school students. Yet, with the publication of Pierre Assouline's article ‘Faut-il brûler les manuels d'histoire?’ in 1983, critical voices started to call for the integration of controversial subjects such as the Algerian War and the Vichy Regime in the national history curriculum. Based on bibliographical research undertaken at the <i>Bibliothèque nationale de France</i>, this paper investigates the extent to which the Algerian War of Independence has been present in French high school history textbooks published in the period between 1983 and 2017. It analyses the presence or absence of this theme in <i>lycées</i> programmes, particularly at the final-year level (<i>classe de terminale</i>). It also engages with the strategies of representation of the Algerian War, considering the relative absence of details in descriptions of the conflict and formulating possible reasons for this lack of engagement.</p>","PeriodicalId":46376,"journal":{"name":"History Compass","volume":"19 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49547541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Re-writing race in early modern European medicine","authors":"Hannah Murphy","doi":"10.1111/hic3.12692","DOIUrl":"10.1111/hic3.12692","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This short article explores the role of medical practitioners from across Europe in the practice of slavery and in the making of early modern race. Medical practitioners were present from the earliest moments of European encounters with African slavery. As the slave trade developed, their participation developed and became more formal. From their role on board ship, to their bureaucratic role in the process of inspecting enslaved peoples, to their practices within colonial administration, the nascent arena of the slave trade depended on a transnational network of medical practitioners. The politics of their expertise linked the practice of slavery with the production of scientific ideas about race. Drawing together the current literature along two lines of theory and practice, I suggest that the construction of the slave trade relied on thousands of such medical encounters. Examining this process reveals a history of enslavement and race as intimate practices, defined in a case-by-case manner, by people, rather than systems. Ultimately, I suggest that thinking about medicine and slavery through categories of knowledge and practice provides insight into the intimate and embodied way in which racial categories of difference were constructed.</p>","PeriodicalId":46376,"journal":{"name":"History Compass","volume":"19 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/hic3.12692","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43189386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Race, place, and power in the production of medical knowledge: Perspectives from the Greater Caribbean","authors":"Rana A. Hogarth","doi":"10.1111/hic3.12694","DOIUrl":"10.1111/hic3.12694","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Over the past 10 years, the Greater Caribbean has emerged as an instructive historical concept for scholarly studies on slavery, race, disease, climate, commerce, and culture. During the era of Atlantic World slavery, this region spanned the Carolinas to the Caribbean, was home to racially diverse inhabitants, new diseases, flora and fauna typically not found in Europe, and climates that were equally as unfamiliar. Scholars have increasingly come to recognize this space as an ideal one for studying knowledge production about health and race. On the topic of race, in particular, the Greater Caribbean provided the context in which white commentators challenged or affirmed notions of innate racial difference through what they witnessed while living in the region. Questions about race, disease, climate and constitutions, could be posed at any locale; however, the ability to make side-by-side comparisons of how living, breathing Black and white bodies experienced sickness, treated illness, and labored in distinctive disease environments and climates was easier done in the Greater Caribbean than in Europe. Bearing that in mind, we should strive toward recognizing how knowledge about human bodies produced in Europe and the Caribbean worked in tandem to reify race. A number of scholars have made just that point, and amplified the significance of this region in contributing to the development and circulation of knowledge about race, as well as medical therapeutics, and disease.</p>","PeriodicalId":46376,"journal":{"name":"History Compass","volume":"19 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47746888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Turning Big Brother upside down: Revisiting surveillance from Latin America","authors":"José Ragas","doi":"10.1111/hic3.12695","DOIUrl":"10.1111/hic3.12695","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This essay discusses the emergence of a vibrant body of research embracing surveillance in Modern Latin America. By focusing on a specific yet complex region, scholars have expanded the original framework associated with the term, applying this new lens to periods ranging from after the Wars of Independence to contemporary episodes. Moreover, the examination of surveillance in this region reveals how researchers have engaged not only with trending research but their willingness to respond to the social, political, and technological phenomena that have become more visible since the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the implementation of a new paradigm based on state security. This concern has become augmented with the revelations on the role of the National Security Agency and social media companies obtaining data from citizens. I conclude by suggesting new avenues for this nascent scholarship to move away from its rigid Orwellian nature and turn surveillance into a more flexible analytical tool.</p>","PeriodicalId":46376,"journal":{"name":"History Compass","volume":"19 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48993489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Forensics, body and state power in South Asia: Recent interventions and their importance","authors":"Gagan Preet Singh","doi":"10.1111/hic3.12693","DOIUrl":"10.1111/hic3.12693","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Forensics were introduced in South Asia during the colonial rule as “scientific” practices to procure “reliable” forms of evidence. Their ostensible goal was to protect innocents and to punish wrong-doers. In the recent decades, however, forensics have become notorious for their repressive character. Is there something wrong with forensics? Is there some problem with the practice or there is a fundamental problem in the manner in which forensics were conceptualized and introduced during the colonial rule. With a critical reading of the recent historiography of forensics, where it has been suggested that forensics had devastating impact on the lives of colonial subjects, this article explores the relationship between forensics, bodies, and state-power. The article suggests that repression is embedded in the idea of forensics, and the history of forensics is a story of abuse, violence, and repression.</p>","PeriodicalId":46376,"journal":{"name":"History Compass","volume":"19 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44060385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Framing gender in Mughal South Asia","authors":"Emma Kalb","doi":"10.1111/hic3.12691","DOIUrl":"10.1111/hic3.12691","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Research on gender in Mughal South Asia has tended to focus either on the nature of the harem and elite female seclusion or, alternately, on constructions of elite masculinity. The first body of literature centers on debates as to the degree to which the harem functioned to limit (elite) women and constrain their political, economic, and social roles. The second analyzes how normative masculinity took shape during different reigns, according to both the preferences of the emperor and his advisors as well as the broader socio-political context. Taken as a whole, this body of work provides nuanced, contextualized accounts of how gender functioned to shape the lives and/or representations of elite men and women, even as it echoes archival sources in focusing on Mughal elites and tends to be framed primarily in terms of the Persianate or Islamicate world. Recent research suggests not only the value of examining questions of gender in relation to non-elites, but also the relevance of the household and the family, the influence of the Indic, the relationship of notions of gender to understandings of the body itself, and alternatives to a narrowly defined gender binary.</p>","PeriodicalId":46376,"journal":{"name":"History Compass","volume":"19 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/hic3.12691","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42315574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teaching entangled Australian sexual histories: Pedagogy and approaches","authors":"James Bennett, Marguerite Johnson","doi":"10.1111/hic3.12690","DOIUrl":"10.1111/hic3.12690","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This is an era of significant shifts in power dynamics pertaining to sexualities, the body and the law reflecting major changes in the socio-political landscape, as evident in, for example, the #MeToo movement; inquiries into systemic child sexual abuse; and campaigns for equal rights, including marriage equality. This article examines the theme of controversies throughout history and provides a series of pedagogical examples drawn from the authors' innovations in teaching an upper-level university course on sex and scandal. Although the course spans the ancient, early modern and modern worlds, covering sexual scandals throughout the west, the focus herein is on Australian examples. It begins by introducing the theme of controversy and its place in history, then teases out the related topics of sexual scandal and contestation. This is then followed by some case studies from the course to demonstrate the subject matter included, and to elucidate specific pedagogies employed to maximize engagement and to enhance understanding in a student-centred and supportive learning environment.</p>","PeriodicalId":46376,"journal":{"name":"History Compass","volume":"19 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45644979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards a contingent high Muslim political history of Bengal, 1937–1947","authors":"Dharitri Bhattacharjee","doi":"10.1111/hic3.12658","DOIUrl":"10.1111/hic3.12658","url":null,"abstract":"<p>High Muslim political history in Bengal's last colonial decade remains an understudied topic in regional history, where disproportionate attention has been paid to Hindus and Congress politics. The significant but little work that exists, hints to the possibility of how it can challenge nation-centered histories of partition and independence. This historiographical essay surveys the literature on Bengali Muslims between 1937 and 1947. It pays particular attention to recent works that have studied Bengali Muslim peasants, culture, identity, Islam and communalism, and the prevalence of “contingent” history in these scholarly works. These works have inadvertently touched on high Muslim political history and underscored its potential for contributing to the study of India's independence and partition history in addition to political, Islamic, regional and national histories, secular thought in India and even global religious ideology and practice. While these new works allow us to reimagine high Muslim political history, close analysis also reveals how the literature simultaneously shows strains of lopsided research, underscoring the need for correction.</p>","PeriodicalId":46376,"journal":{"name":"History Compass","volume":"19 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/hic3.12658","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42544288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chinese migration to Latin America: From colonial to contemporary era","authors":"Jian Gao","doi":"10.1111/hic3.12688","DOIUrl":"10.1111/hic3.12688","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This historiographical essay surveys the major works on the history of Chinese migration to Latin America spanning from the colonial to the contemporary era. Tracing the main historical events that scholars have examined, this paper comprehensively presents the various arguments and approaches represented in the current scholarship while delineating the research frontiers. Attending to the different geographical and temporal frameworks found in the historiography, this paper shows that the studies on Chinese migration to Latin America in different eras are unevenly distributed by country. It further argues that new perspectives and innovative methodologies for investigating the lived experiences of Chinese Latin Americans unfettered from the nation-states’ standpoints are still wanting. Paying attention to the primary sources used by historians, this paper especially points out that the lack of Chinese-language sources in these studies have hampered historians from constructing narratives from the perspectives and voices of the migrants themselves. However, such trend has been slowly changing in recent years.</p>","PeriodicalId":46376,"journal":{"name":"History Compass","volume":"19 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/hic3.12688","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41527589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}