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{"title":"EIGENSINN AND DOMINATION IN LIBERAL AND ILLIBERAL SOCIETIES","authors":"Alf Lüdtke,&nbsp;Alexandra Oeser","doi":"10.1111/hith.70021","DOIUrl":"10.1111/hith.70021","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article is a posthumously published text that was written by Alf Lüdtke and Alexandra Oeser but was left unfinished when Lüdtke died in February 2019. It examines two central notions—and their articulations—that Lüdtke and Oeser use differently in their work: domination and <i>Eigensinn</i>. On domination, it focuses on perspectives of Max Weber's work and different translations in English and French that have led to distinct receptions of the notion of domination in these languages. While locating the notion of <i>Eigensinn</i> back in its 1980s academic context, this article reconceptualizes <i>Eigensinn</i> as a blind spot of Weber's definition of domination that addresses the question of <i>how</i> people produce a “will to obey,” which Weber's work does not tackle. The article also debates the possibilities of using the notion of <i>Eigensinn</i> for liberal and illiberal societies. Oeser has written an introduction to guide the reader through the text and to recall the conditions surrounding its production.</p>","PeriodicalId":47473,"journal":{"name":"History and Theory","volume":"65 1","pages":"32-57"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/hith.70021","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147565178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"THE CONTENT OF THE NARRATIVE","authors":"Serge Grigoriev","doi":"10.1111/hith.70020","DOIUrl":"10.1111/hith.70020","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In <i>The Exemplifying Past: A Philosophy of History</i>, Chiel van den Akker presents a compelling argument for understanding historical narrative as an instrument of historical cognition rather than as a literary device or an artifact. In the first part of this review essay, I present and explicate van den Akker's sophisticated and lucid account of the content of the narrative as that which comes into view when we adopt the thesis (or perspective) embodied in the composition of the narrative (considered in its entirety). In the second part, I raise some questions concerning van den Akker's attempt to express the resulting conception of the narrative and its meaning in terms borrowed from the analytic philosophy of language, giving rise to what van den Akker calls a “pragmatist theory of narrative truth.” This second part of the essay concludes by suggesting two alternative (potentially simpler) formulations of the pertinent semantic and pragmatic distinctions and relationships that may be worth exploring or evaluating alongside van den Akker's original proposal. I conclude this review essay by questioning whether a sustained engagement with philosophy of language in general constitutes a necessary (or even a promising) way to advance our understanding of cognitive problems in the philosophy of history.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47473,"journal":{"name":"History and Theory","volume":"65 1","pages":"133-144"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147570226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Obituary","authors":"WULF KANSTEINER","doi":"10.1111/hith.70017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/hith.70017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47473,"journal":{"name":"History and Theory","volume":"64 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145297373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION: TRANSLATION, MIGRATION, NARRATIVE","authors":"Christoph Rass,&nbsp;Julie M. Weise","doi":"10.1111/hith.12397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/hith.12397","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Empirical, positivist approaches have long dominated migration history and migration studies and shaped these fields with their research questions, theoretical approaches, and methodologies. However, the data, interpretations, explanations, and narratives of migration and society produced in this framework have come under criticism in recent years. This critique includes challenges to methodological nationalism, the construction of migration as a problem requiring intervention and regulation, the production of sedentarism as the normal, the use of categories and concepts that place migranticized people in subaltern positions, and the reproduction of colonial knowledge structures by privileging Western perspectives.1&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Decolonizing research on migration, mobility-induced social change, and diversity that considered migration societies &lt;i&gt;(Migrationsgesellschaften&lt;/i&gt;) as the norm and understood mobility and migration as constitutive elements of the &lt;i&gt;conditio humana&lt;/i&gt; took different forms and paces within different disciplines, in different academic communities in the Global North and South, and across the Atlantic and Pacific. It also led to a growing number of interdisciplinary initiatives. The reflexive turn in migration studies transformed vague critique at the margins into a dynamic drive for a paradigm shift at the center of migration research, demanding fundamental transformations to long-established epistemologies, power structures, and disciplinary traditions in this multidisciplinary, international, and often highly politicized field.2&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Our own intellectual trajectories reflect these shifts. As historians of migration policies and societies, we began collaborating to explore connections between histories of labor migration in Europe (Christoph Rass's expertise) and in the United States (Julie M. Weise's expertise). As we worked, we realized that the largely empirical research methodologies on which we both usually relied left too much unexplained. We needed a better way to analyze the circulation of ideas about migration management around the Atlantic and beyond—not just among policymakers but also among migrants themselves. As we engaged with theories of translation on a broad register, we were better able to interpret the documents in front of us, but more than this, we were pushed to rethink the ways we narrated migration history as a whole.3&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We were fortunate to enlist leading German and US historians and literary, cultural, and ethnic studies scholars to join us in this critical reflection and methodological and narrative experimentation in the interdisciplinary field of migration history. Our shared foundation is an understanding of “translation” as a broad theoretical umbrella that includes all activities transposing sensual data into tangible and communicable—that is, social and aesthetic—forms. Inspired by Alexandra Lianeri's June 2024 reading of Theo Hermans's &lt;i&gt;Translation and History: A Textbook&lt;/i&gt;,4 we","PeriodicalId":47473,"journal":{"name":"History and Theory","volume":"64 3","pages":"359-364"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/hith.12397","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145297635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"ENTANGLING KNOWLEDGE AND IGNORANCE","authors":"Vera Keller","doi":"10.1111/hith.12394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/hith.12394","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This review essays situates Alain Corbin's <i>Terra Incognita: A History of Ignorance in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries</i> within current discussions of knowledge and ignorance related to intellectual history, the history of science, and the history of knowledge. These varying approaches have drawn the borderland between knowledge and ignorance divergently. After a brief critique of the Corbin's positivist approach in <i>Terra Incognita</i>, I sketch some well-known ground in the history of science over the past two generations. I then point to how recent discussions of the relationships between intellectual history, the history of science, and the history of knowledge have tended to sidestep that history. I conclude by suggesting how indigenous studies and Corbin's own previous work might serve to better entangle knowledge and ignorance in ways that might draw on the strengths of all three fields.</p>","PeriodicalId":47473,"journal":{"name":"History and Theory","volume":"64 3","pages":"483-493"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/hith.12394","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145297438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"FIRST PERSON SINGULAR? NORTH INDIAN MIGRANT NARRATIVES FROM THE ERA OF INDENTURE","authors":"Anand A. Yang","doi":"10.1111/hith.12392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/hith.12392","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Between the early nineteenth century and the early twentieth century, over one million people from India served as indentured laborers in European-dominated colonies scattered across the Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, and Caribbean. To understand this mass migration at the individual and micro-level, scholars have recently turned their attention to the autobiographies of two “translated” people, Totaram Sanadhya and Munshi Rahman Khan, because their texts offer firsthand accounts of indenture from within that system. Sanadhya spent twenty-one years in Fiji after arriving there in 1893, and Khan went to Suriname in 1898 and stayed there for the next seventy or so years of his life. Their reminiscences, which translate into words the lived experiences of migrants from North India, offer crucial insights into the language practices they had to negotiate and the different subjectivities they had to assume (or were assigned) not only while en route to indenture but also during and following their period of indenture. Such information cannot be extracted from the official archives that historians typically rely on to compile macro- or meso-histories of mobility in colonial India. But migrant self-writing also has limitations: many personal stories of indenture are organized solely around the theme or plot of suffering and coercion, as demonstrated in Sanadhya's <i>testimonio</i>, and many self-narratives represent the experiences and thoughts of a single historical agent, as evidenced by the autobiographies of both Sanadhya and Khan.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47473,"journal":{"name":"History and Theory","volume":"64 3","pages":"405-412"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145297538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"LIST, ASSEMBLAGE, INTERRUPTION: MIGRANT LITERATURE AGAINST STORY","authors":"KIRSTEN SILVA GRUESZ","doi":"10.1111/hith.12391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/hith.12391","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Building on the centrality of translation theory in literary studies, this essay makes the case for the utility of literature in understanding the experience of migration. Rather than assuming that this means narrative fiction or nonfiction, it explores arguments against narrative. Using frameworks developed by Maria Mäkelä, Hanna Meretoja, and Andrew Abbott, it argues that a story-critical, nonnarrative approach can better illuminate momentary experience and slow down the reader's rush to consume and oversimplify story features. Examples drawn from recent work by US Chicano poet-artist Juan Felipe Herrera illustrate some tactics that interrupt the flow of narrative, including the list, the assemblage, and the concrete space of the page.</p>","PeriodicalId":47473,"journal":{"name":"History and Theory","volume":"64 3","pages":"413-421"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/hith.12391","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145297176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"TRAVELERS IN TRANSLATION: OF “LIMINAL SPACES” AND “LITERARY CONTACT ZONES”","authors":"LAURA A. ZANDER","doi":"10.1111/hith.12388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/hith.12388","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Despite the global visibility of the migrant as a key figure in discussions of human rights, the contours of the migrant as a subject of rights still remain unspecified. However, global human rights fictions, which are often rooted in autobiographical and biographical accounts, offer alternative subjectivities by producing narrative forms that contrast with dominant “migration literatures.” Literature emerges as a contact zone where migrant voices engage with host cultures, facilitating dialogues that challenge stereotypes and reshape cultural imaginaries. In these spaces, language becomes the central medium to navigate and negotiate liminality. Processes of translation are the most obvious means of this negotiation, as translation bridges personal experience, political ideologies, and social imaginaries. By translating precarious migrant experiences into narratives, literature reconfigures the migrant as a central figure of human rights while also challenging dominant political discourses. Helon Habila's 2019 novel, <i>Travelers</i>, exemplifies these dynamics by mapping migrancy through a network of interconnected characters whose fates illuminate the complexity of migrant experiences and challenge received notions of migrancy. As individual narratives intersect and transform into a collective story, <i>Travelers</i> reflects the potential of literary contact zones to mediate cultural exchange and envision alternative migrant subjectivities. By moving beyond tropes of cultural clash and identity struggles, such narratives reimagine migration and its connection to human rights.</p>","PeriodicalId":47473,"journal":{"name":"History and Theory","volume":"64 3","pages":"365-374"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/hith.12388","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145297224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"MIGRATION, MOBILITY, AND BEING IN TRANSLATION","authors":"PETER SCHNECK,&nbsp;JULIE M. WEISE","doi":"10.1111/hith.12389","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/hith.12389","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Drawing on an expanded concept of translation as process and practice, this contribution to the “Translation, Migration, Narrative” forum explores how migrants, as described by scholars such as Paul F. Bandia, embody “translated beings” who are marked both by agency and by constraint. We argue that translation serves as a literal and metaphorical framework for analyzing archives of migration by illuminating the interplay between migrants’ identities, their larger social networks, and the legal, cultural, and linguistic translations they enact and endure. The piece begins by developing theoretical insights from two works of literature: Valeria Luiselli's writings about her experiences as a volunteer interpreter for child migrants and Yuri Herrera's novels reflecting on migrancy as a form of evolving self-translation between languages and cultures. These literary perspectives on translation as an essential component of migrant experience emphasize the hybrid, translational experiences of migrants and the paradoxical, but also resilient, nature of their identities and agency. We then bring these theories to bear as methodology and analyze a 1954 document from the archives of South Africa's Witwatersrand Native Labour Association (WNLA) that translated and transcribed Malawians’ messages to their mineworker family members in South Africa. We consider how the lived experience of “being in translation” was both common and differentiated between migrants and their “left-behind” family members. Ultimately, our intervention offers an interdisciplinary approach to migration studies that bridges literature, history, and cultural analysis. This perspective not only underscores how translation practices are essential to the experience of migration but also helps to (re)constitute migration histories, in turn contributing to the archives and narratives that navigate the complex terrain of mobility, identity, and cultural mediation.</p>","PeriodicalId":47473,"journal":{"name":"History and Theory","volume":"64 3","pages":"396-404"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/hith.12389","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145297175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"PRODUCING INTEGRATION: THE TRANSLATION OF NON/BELONGING IN GERMANY AND THE UNITED STATES","authors":"Catherine S. Ramírez,&nbsp;Christoph Rass","doi":"10.1111/hith.12390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/hith.12390","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This essay examines how the concept of integration has been produced, translated, and institutionalized in Germany and the United States as a key element of policy frameworks that migranticize some people and, thus, translate them as outsiders. By combining conceptual history and translation theory, we analyze how the meaning of integration has evolved within academic and political discourse, tracing its emergence as a key category in migration governance. We argue that the production of what integration means can be read via and as translation, resulting in an ambiguous medium that structures access to belonging in a way that facilitates the reproduction of exclusionary hierarchies. We begin by outlining our theoretical framework, linking cultural translation with conceptual history to examine how integration operates as a dynamic but historically contingent concept. We then explore integration in Germany, tracing its genealogy from racializing notions during the Nazi years to its institutionalization as a migration policy in a multicultural society during the twenty-first century. Next, we turn our attention to the US, where integration remains undefined in official policy but is shaped through differential inclusion in the market and illegality. Focusing on <i>Duldung</i> and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, we argue that the German and US systems translate older forms of exclusion into contemporary governance structures. Far from a neutral or inclusive concept, integration becomes operative as a tool for regulating mobility and non/belonging through a twofold translation: the production of what integration means determines how the concept translates people.</p>","PeriodicalId":47473,"journal":{"name":"History and Theory","volume":"64 3","pages":"375-386"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/hith.12390","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145297222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}