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Land, livelihoods and belonging: negotiating change and anticipating LAPSSET in Kenya’s Lamu county (2020)
Journal Article
Chome, N. (2020). Land, livelihoods and belonging: negotiating change and anticipating LAPSSET in Kenya’s Lamu county. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 14(2), 310-331. https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2020.1743068

To attract investments in mineral extraction, physical infrastructure and agricultural commercialization over a vast swathe of Northern Kenya, national politicians and bureaucrats are casting the area as being both abundant with land and resources, a... Read More about Land, livelihoods and belonging: negotiating change and anticipating LAPSSET in Kenya’s Lamu county.

"Geography, climate, physical data" (2020)
Book Chapter
Lee, J. S. (2020). "Geography, climate, physical data". In G. Christ, & P. R. Rössner (Eds.), History and Economic Life: A Student’s Guide to approaching Economic and Social History sources. Routledge

The Waterlogged Limits of the Infrastructural State: The Failure of the T’aean Canalization Projects in Pre-Industrial Korea, 1134-1537 (2020)
Journal Article
Lee, J. S. (2020). The Waterlogged Limits of the Infrastructural State: The Failure of the T’aean Canalization Projects in Pre-Industrial Korea, 1134-1537. International journal of Korean history, 25(1), 15-40. https://doi.org/10.22372/ijkh.2019.25.1.15

One of the chronic problems of pre-industrial Korean history has been the difficulty of material integration between core regions of the Korean peninsula. This article analyzes five major canalization attempts made by Koryŏ and Chosŏn states in the T... Read More about The Waterlogged Limits of the Infrastructural State: The Failure of the T’aean Canalization Projects in Pre-Industrial Korea, 1134-1537.

The Lost Cause Goes West: Confederate Culture and Civil War Memory in California (2020)
Journal Article
Waite, K. (2020). The Lost Cause Goes West: Confederate Culture and Civil War Memory in California. California History, 97(1), 33-49. https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2020.97.1.33

California once housed over a dozen monuments, memorials, and place-names honoring the Confederacy, far more than any other state beyond the South. The list included schools and trees named for Robert E. Lee, mountaintops and highways for Jefferson D... Read More about The Lost Cause Goes West: Confederate Culture and Civil War Memory in California.

Secondary Art and the Two-Story House: Kuwabara Takeo and the Comparative Imagination in Midcentury Japan, 1935-1947 (2020)
Journal Article
Bronson, A. (2021). Secondary Art and the Two-Story House: Kuwabara Takeo and the Comparative Imagination in Midcentury Japan, 1935-1947. Modern Intellectual History, 18(2), 451-473. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1479244320000013

This article focuses on the life and ideas of Kuwabara Takeo, a cultural critic and scholar of French literature who became renowned for his 1946 critique of haiku as a “secondary art” in comparison with the novel. By reconstructing Kuwabara’s intell... Read More about Secondary Art and the Two-Story House: Kuwabara Takeo and the Comparative Imagination in Midcentury Japan, 1935-1947.

Semperian Trajectories: Architectural Development of Design Museums (2020)
Book Chapter
Prokopovych, M. (2020). Semperian Trajectories: Architectural Development of Design Museums. In Liberalism, Nationalism and Design Reform in the Habsburg Empire (91-123). Routledge

This chapter analyzes a critical reassessment of that Semperian tradition through analysis of museum architecture, paying particular attention to the important studies by Rebecca Houze. Design museums also served as architectural models for each othe... Read More about Semperian Trajectories: Architectural Development of Design Museums.