In September 2005, Bain Attwood and Dipesh Chakrabarty convened a group of historians at the Australian National University to discuss the productive effects of the contemporary politics of recognitio

Our current issue brings together a set of independently submitted essays.

Even the most casual news consumers are recurrently confronted with a perplexing mathematics and metaphysics of risk.

The democratic project on a global scale that seemed so promising and was pursued with so much vigor in the final quarter of the twentieth century is now in serious disarray, if not in ruins.

The essays collected in this issue celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the publication of W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk. Published in 1903 by A. C.