Pandemic Histories

This special issue, titled as a conceit and a provocation, brings together South Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa to challenge the conception that the Global South is either a place of historical failure or a site where theory is implemented. The authors present an alternative conceptual nexus of “pandemic histories” to theorize modes of historiographical thinking that defy narratives of death and detritus.

Contributors: Peerzada Raouf Ahmad, Anjali Arondekar, Dwaipayan Banerjee, Rana Barakat, Rosie Bsheer, Aomar Boum, Lâle Can, Anish Gawande, Bishnupriya Ghosh, Ilham Khuri-Makdisi, Nidhi Mahajan, Taylor M. Moore, Amrita Sharma, Sharika Thiranagama, Sherene Seikaly, Elora Shehabuddin, Hana Sleiman, Suraj Yengde