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In the Queue: Forthcoming Essays

FREDERICK WOJNAROWSKI Hirak and Hosha: Modalities of Collective Action in Jordan in the Wake of the Arab Spring

KABIR TAMBAR   A History of Clamor: Historical Time and the Late Ottoman Surreal

ELLEN NYE Money on Trial: Performances of Value and Authority in Ottoman Istanbul during the Age of Global Silver

VANESSA FREIJE The word of the state against ours’: The Right to Know and State Terror in 1970s Mexico

YUKIKO KOGA  Post-imperial Reckoning: Transitional Injustice and the Unmaking of the Japanese Empire in East Asia

NICHOLAS MCGEE  Two Journeys into Diaspora: Qing and British Imperial Investigations in the Dutch East Indies and Australia

TOM ÖZDEN-SCHILLING Spiraling out in the Circular Economy: Movement and Belonging at a Malaysian Rare Earth Elements Refinery

ESMOND CHUAH MENG SOH and KENG WE KOH  Stars, Kings, Pirates: The Nine Emperor Gods Festival and the Making of a Diasporic Religious Ecology in Postcolonial Southeast Asia

TIRTHANKAR ROY Constructing a Colonial State: The Land Rights Debate in Eighteenth-Century Bengal

LALE CAN Creating an “Ottoman Siberia”: Punitive Mobility and Imperial Governance in the Late Ottoman Empire

TOBIAS KELLY  Private Detectives: Investigation, Privacy and “Personal Information” in Britain, 1965 – 1975

MATEI CANDEA AND PAOLO HEYWOOD What was antiformalism, and what comes next

JACOB S. DORMAN  Hoodoo and Who Don’t: Father George W. Hurley, Black Spiritual Churches, and Religious Bricolage

CAROLINE E. SCHUSTER, ENRIQUE BERNARDOU, AND DAVID BUENO What is ground truth? Paraguayan disaster insurance and histories of authoritarian surveillance beyond the anti-politics of finance

MATT TOMLINSON   Heal Thyself: A Review Essay

LAUREN BENTON Piracy as Political Prism: Sea Raiders and the Rise of the International Atlantic

JUDITH SCHEELE Raids, booty, and authorisation: the view from the desert

NATHAN PERL-ROSENTHAL Missed Connections, Shady Intentions: Privateering and Interpolity Ordering, C18-C19

JATIN DUA The Protection of Refusal: On Disavowal in the Indian Ocean

ASHLEY LEBNER On Friendship’s Mystic Affordances (Also, on Universalism, Particularism, and the Generic)

PETRICǍ MOGOS Culture and Contradiction Before the End of History: From Socialist Legacies to Market Logics

MALIKA ZEHNI Subjects of Suspicion at the Imperial Crossroads: British Indians on the Russian Periphery

DENIS KOZLOV  A View from the Italian Side: Transit Migrants from the Soviet Union in Italy during the 1970s and 1980s

MANUELA CIOTTI Staging the contemporary: The art-architecture-archeology-heritage complex at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB)

LEYLA JAFAROVA “May the One Who Believes This Turn into Stone”: Skeptical Dispositions After Wartime Disappearances in Soviet and Post-Soviet Azerbaijan

ANIRBAN KARAK Coerced Labor, Caste, and Aspirations for Liberty in Early Nineteenth-Century Bengal: Revisiting the Antislavery Debate from South Asia

JAMES ROBERTSON Borrowed Time: Sovereign  Debt and Temporal Disorder in Socialist Yugoslavia