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Current scholarly literature on indigeneity is largely preoccupied with two primary themes: a spiritual connection to the land and the experience of colonial oppression.1 While these frameworks are vital, they often fail to account for indigenous groups that do not

The Transnationalism of the Nationalist New Right: The Spread to Latin America  Background Today, the far right has risen to prominence, shaping policies both domestically and internationally and impacting the lives of many. Although the movement’s popularity has appeared abrupt,

For my research project, I am looking at the transnational networks that created and maintained the New Right movement and (in modernity) the Alt-right movement. I read Wimmer and Schiller’s work on Methodological Nationalism, The Social Sciences, and The Study

With the project presentation coming up, I used most of my time to look into more secondary sources on the subject of the second wave of feminism from a transnational perspective and think of where I wanted to go with

For my research project I will be exploring Jewish resilience in London during the Blitzkrieg. Specifically, I will be focusing on the targeted destruction of Jewish communities during the bombings and the persistence of antisemitism in London. While the Blitz

The distinction between “domestic” and “foreign” Poles is a pattern that I’ve found particularly relevant to my project’s exploration of indigenous communities. While we traditionally define indigeneity as an isolated community tied to land and victimised by colonialism, I want

As there were no assigned readings during the spring vacation, I started looking further into my final project and had the opportunity to dive deeper into some works on the subject of the second wave of feminism of the 1970s

For my blog post this week, I wanted to reflect on the research I’ve done so far for my long essay to work through my ideas and hopefully receive constructive feedback. Currently, I am focusing it on uncovering how the

This week I read Alcade’s work and Dietze and Naumann’s work, both of which offered interesting methodological nuances to the practice of transnational history. Alcade’s text, which focuses on the historiographical shift toward ‘historical space’ as opposed to the mainstream

Transnational history is often presented as a solution to the so-called ‘methodological nationalism’ that was and is prevalent amongst the social sciences. However, Naumann’s Revisiting transnational actors from a spatial perspective and Alcalde’s Spatializing transnational history: European spaces and territories argue that this new methodology is far from something that should be adopted

This week’s readings challenge the positive narrative surrounding transnational actors. Dietze and Neumann show that the “transnational” is not a free-floating space, arguing that actors remain embedded in layered socio-spatial contexts even as they build cross-border connections. Similarly, Alcalde argues

It is essential that transnational historians engage with space and time in a flexible manner since, in transnational exchange, both time and space can have a different quality. For instance, the phenomenon of technological developments like the telegram or railways significantly affected human understandings and experiences of time and space. Even seemingly simple objects such as

A question that was presented in my mind with both the European Review of History as well as Pierre-Yves Saunier’s chapter 6 was deceptively simple: where does history happen? The default answer was obvious for a while, history happened within

Week 5 Both Alcalde’s and Dietze and Katja’s dosseirs address different outlooks on the spatialization of transnational history. Their work discusses scholarly trends that challenge the supposed natural, fundamental, and self-contained nature of spatial units such as the nation-state. In