21/10/2020
The Manchester historian is looking for writers for this upcoming issue. Could you write for us?
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Issue 37: Oppression and Resistance
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Within the current climate of protest, our next edition appropriately focuses on Oppression and Resistance. Below are a broad selection of article suggestions, meant as a starting point from which you can develop your article.
Most are broad so take a moment to think about what you might like to focus on? What will your argument be? What are the key historical debates surrounding the topic?
Within these prompts, we have endeavoured to include campaigns, events and people whose histories are under-represented in Modern Historiography. This edition will explore oppressors and oppression throughout history, their motives and means; vice versa all aspects of resistance, from music and culture to thunderous revolution. This edition will hopefully include a larger proportion of articles on Black history than any edition previous and, as ever, we would like to encourage contributions from students from minority backgrounds.
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Articles are only 450 or 900 words - references/sources are not required! Please don't be scared or think it's a lot of extra work 🙂
If you’d like to write an article, email a brief plan to [email protected]. You are welcome to write an article from the list below, but we also encourage pitches of your own article ideas, and book reviews relevant to the theme. To reserve space in the magazine, you must email us with your article plan before the 30th of October. This does not need to be in-depth, just a general idea of what you intend to write about. The final deadline for article submission is the 8th of November.
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/// African, Islamic and Arabic History ///
- The Mau-Mau uprising and subaltern resistance to British rule in Kenya
Can include the brutal British response including concentration camps
- Willie Bester – Apartheid Artist
- The Bahá’í faith - Iran's eternal scapegoat
- Simon Nkoli - South African Anti-Apartheid and gay activist (founded GLOW, worked to destigmatize HIV/AIDS)
- "Artistic Revolution”, the role of art during the Arab Spring [Reserved]
- Missionaries - colonialism's "agent, scribe and moral alibi"?
- Al-Zubayr Rahma Mansur Pasha: A Slaver King
- 'The revolution and women's liberation go together. We do not talk of women's emancipation as an act of charity or out of a surge of human compassion. It is a basic necessity for the revolution to triumph'. Thomas Sankara, Burkina Faso’s revolutionary 20th-Century leader. Assessing women’s liberation in revolutionary Burkina Faso [Reserved]
- Frantz Fanon: The Martiniquan author and psychiatrist who ‘inspired the struggle for Algerian independence and thereafter all anti-colonial liberation movements’ [Reserved]
- Was the war of independence a liberating experience for Algerian women?
- Black Panthers and the PLO in Boumédienne Algeria: How a newly independent Algeria welcomed resistance groups from across the globe in an act of international solidarity
- Film Review; The battle of Algiers., dir. Gillo Pontecorvo (1965) [Reserved]
/// Non-Western American History ///
- Arpilleras against Augusto: a woven history of life under dictatorship [Reserved]
- Liberation Theology: A Marxist Christianity? How Latin American priests utilised Marxism to fight against dictators [Reserved]
- US Blockades (Cuba, Venezuela etc.); economic warfare? [Reserved]
- Dividing colonial subjects: the effects of the Spanish American caste system
- Childless Motherhood; mothers of the Plaza de Mayo against the Argentinian Junta [Reserved]
- The rise and fall of Latin America’s Pink Tide
- Eva Peron: A champion of the people or a self-obsessed star?
- "Maria Rural". Either an article on the life and legacy of Arlen Siu or the Sandinistas and revolutionary peasant consciousness
- Frida Kahlo - using art to portray female sexuality, pain and, feminine beauty standards [Reserved]
- Indigenismo, Bolivian radicalism and the celebration of Indigenous culture and resistance
- Book Review: The Passion of The People by Tony Mason [Reserved]
/// Asian History ///
- Greater East Asia conference: A front of Japanese liberation? [Reserved]
- India-Pakistan; [Reserved]
An article about opposition to Partition, OR
Why is Kashmir so important to India and Pakistan
- Should we consider the Vietnam War a colonial, cold or civil war? [Reserved]
- Geisha - How the West’s image of talented women demean their identity
- “Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend”. Was the Hundred Flowers Campaign truly designed to promote the flourishing of arts and science or a premeditated act to find those who disagreed with the CCP? [Reserved]
- Rebellion of Li Zicheng - overthrew the ming dynasty OR white lotus rebellion
- The causes of Indonesian independence; Nationalism, Communism, Islam and the Japanese occupation [Reserved]
- How the ‘queue’, or braid, became a symbol of gender identity rather than a symbol of Manchi oppression under the Qing dynasty in China
- The Tamil Tigers and Sri Lanka’s three-decade-long civil war [Reserved]
- North Korea: A self-proclaimed ‘independent socialist state’
- Book Review: The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire by Jack Weatherford
British and Mancunian Black History:
- Len Johnson vs the Colour Bar
- 'Colonial and Subject Peoples of the World, Unite!'- the 5th Pan-African Congress, Manchester, 75 years on
- A forgotten ‘African Communist in Britain’, An autobiography of Desmond Buckle
/// Modern Western History ///
- Punk: A music revolution! [Reserved]
- Sección Feminina vs The Mujeres Libres: two Spanish women's movements fighting very different causes [Reserved]
- ‘Zog nit keyn mol’: The Anthem of the Partisans
- Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru – Terrorists or freedom fighters? [Reserved]
- “Noi Donna”, Women and Women's Defense Groups in the Italian Resistenza
- We have been beaten and humiliated...scattered, imprisoned, disarmed and gagged. The fate of European democracy has slipped from our hands.’ Despite their ultimate failure, what did the 1848 revolutions achieve (from edition 35)
- ‘Ghost town’, Music and culture in resistance to Thatcherism [Reserved]
- Film Review: Nome di battaglia Donna
- Graffiti: has the art of resistance now been gentrified? [Reserved]
- Peace and Music: Woodstock 1969 and other musical movements against the Vietnam War [Reserved]
- Reclaiming ‘Australia Day’: The terrible history of the 26th of January and those seeking to abolish it [Reserved]
- Mary Harris Jones: ‘The grandmother of all agitators’
- Cowboys and Indians: The Mythology of the Wild West and its significance for US culture and identity
- Sweden and Norway’s Sami People: an example of European indigenous oppression
- Tsali and the Trail of Tears
- Guerilla Girls: the anonymous feminist art movement [Reserved]
- Reclaiming the Two-Spirit identity, or the impact of colonialism and inseparable sexual prejudice on Native American communities
- Book Review: Miliband, ‘The State in Capitalist Society’
/// Pre- History and Ancient History ///
- Fighting lesbian erasure in historiography; restoring Sappho as a queer identity [Reserved]
- Traders or Raiders? The misconstrued history of the Vikings [Reserved]
- The Ionian Revolt: authentic rebellion or Athenian proxy war?
- The Agricultural revolution in prehistory and how it changed the world as we know it [Reserved]
- Ever since Eve: How the Bible has been used to oppress women since the garden of Eden [Reserved]
- The Exodus and its influence on Civil Rights
- Ancient Egypt, a world without Religious oppression?
- Aztec Flower Wars: A tool of inter-nation stability or a smokescreen of sacrificial intent?
- Viracocha or ‘The White God’, and Spain's moves to colonise Incan deities
/// Early Modern and Medieval History ///
- The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: How Witch Hunts were used to attack the Powerful and the Powerless [Reserved]
- Bloody Mary: is this a name she justly deserves? [Reserved]
- The persecution of ‘Good Christians’: The eradication of Cathars during the medieval inquisition
- Remembering Tolpuddle
- The Abbasid Revolution overthrow of the Umayyad dynasty under Abu Muslim, which was caused by discrimination against non-Arab Muslims and government corruption
- The Mamluks were Turkic slaves who overthrew the Ayyubid dynasty
- Lucrecia de Llión - aka Lucrecia the dreamer - prophetic peasant in 16th-Century Spain. Accurately foresaw the defeat of the Armada, King arrested her during the inquisition
- Christianity as a disrupting force: forced conversion on Europe’s frontiers
- Could mention Venice and the role trading played
- Oliver Cromwell: Liberator or cruel dictator? [Reserved]
- Could discuss differing opinions over the role he played in Ireland
- The German Peasants War of 1525
Issue 37- Oppression and Resistance Within the current climate of protest, our next edition appropriately focuses on Oppression and Resistance. Below are a broad selection of article suggestions, meant as a starting point from which you can develop your article. Most are broad so take a moment t...
