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Journal Articles by Heather Ferguson
Comparative Studies in Society and History, 2022
Introduction: "Early Modern Archives" and Neo-Eurocentrism The shadow of Eurocentrism has long ha... more Introduction: "Early Modern Archives" and Neo-Eurocentrism The shadow of Eurocentrism has long haunted archives as objects of analysis. 1 Well before the field of historical archival studies came into its own as a subdisciplinary specialization, scholars postulated (or implicitly assumed) particular kinds of mostly metropolitan, state archives to be prototypical. They suggested, teleologically, that certain institutional, archival, or technological formations
Itinerario , 2020
These concluding reflections assess how the contributors to this special issue intervene in key a... more These concluding reflections assess how the contributors to this special issue intervene in key assumptions that shape the current field of archival studies. As the "archival turn" gains ground, forms of Euro-and state-centrism reappear in scholarship otherwise innovative in its attention to the textual remnants of the past. Here, instead, we explore the methodological stakes involved in defining both the "archive" and the historical power brokers who created and preserved a documentary record in pursuit of their varied social, cultural, economic, and political projects. The essay points to the resurgence of culturalist and civilisational indices for comparative archivistics, and follows the arguments collected in this issue to assert by contrast the often uneven and uneasy regional, administrative, and procedural definitions at work within preserved records. Identifying "mobility" as both a methodological tactic and a historical process, this conclusion presents a fluid rather than fixed textual landscape and presents an alternative frame for investigating preservationist practices.
Journal of Ottoman and Turkish Studies, 2020
Political Thought and Practice in the Ottoman Empire, Halcyon Days of Crete IX, 2019
In Iacobus: Revista de Estudios Jacobeos Y Medievales, memorial issue for Louis Cardaillac (Issue... more In Iacobus: Revista de Estudios Jacobeos Y Medievales, memorial issue for Louis Cardaillac (Issue 33-34, 2015), 265-90.
In Osmanlı Araştırmaları Dergisi /The Journal of Ottoman Studies (Issue 35, 2010), 81-116.
Reviews by Heather Ferguson
In The International Journal of Middle East Studies 50: 4, 2018
In The International Journal of Middle East Studies 45: 4 (Winter 2013).
In The Journal of Interdisciplinary History XLIII: 1 (Summer 2012).
In The Journal of Interdisciplinary History XLI: 4 (Spring 2011).
Journalism by Heather Ferguson
JadMag, The Pedagogy Edition, 2019
In The Bulletin of Middle East Studies (April 2016), 30.
In The Claremont Globetrotter 4: 2 (Spring 2013), 3-5.
Editorial Work by Heather Ferguson
Review of Middle East Studies, 2019
Review of Middle East Studies, 2018
Review of Middle East Studies, 2018
Comparative Studies in Society and History, 2022
Introduction: "Early Modern Archives" and Neo-Eurocentrism The shadow of Eurocentrism has long ha... more Introduction: "Early Modern Archives" and Neo-Eurocentrism The shadow of Eurocentrism has long haunted archives as objects of analysis. 1 Well before the field of historical archival studies came into its own as a subdisciplinary specialization, scholars postulated (or implicitly assumed) particular kinds of mostly metropolitan, state archives to be prototypical. They suggested, teleologically, that certain institutional, archival, or technological formations
Itinerario , 2020
These concluding reflections assess how the contributors to this special issue intervene in key a... more These concluding reflections assess how the contributors to this special issue intervene in key assumptions that shape the current field of archival studies. As the "archival turn" gains ground, forms of Euro-and state-centrism reappear in scholarship otherwise innovative in its attention to the textual remnants of the past. Here, instead, we explore the methodological stakes involved in defining both the "archive" and the historical power brokers who created and preserved a documentary record in pursuit of their varied social, cultural, economic, and political projects. The essay points to the resurgence of culturalist and civilisational indices for comparative archivistics, and follows the arguments collected in this issue to assert by contrast the often uneven and uneasy regional, administrative, and procedural definitions at work within preserved records. Identifying "mobility" as both a methodological tactic and a historical process, this conclusion presents a fluid rather than fixed textual landscape and presents an alternative frame for investigating preservationist practices.
Journal of Ottoman and Turkish Studies, 2020
Political Thought and Practice in the Ottoman Empire, Halcyon Days of Crete IX, 2019
In Iacobus: Revista de Estudios Jacobeos Y Medievales, memorial issue for Louis Cardaillac (Issue... more In Iacobus: Revista de Estudios Jacobeos Y Medievales, memorial issue for Louis Cardaillac (Issue 33-34, 2015), 265-90.
In Osmanlı Araştırmaları Dergisi /The Journal of Ottoman Studies (Issue 35, 2010), 81-116.
In The International Journal of Middle East Studies 50: 4, 2018
In The International Journal of Middle East Studies 45: 4 (Winter 2013).
In The Journal of Interdisciplinary History XLIII: 1 (Summer 2012).
In The Journal of Interdisciplinary History XLI: 4 (Spring 2011).
JadMag, The Pedagogy Edition, 2019
In The Bulletin of Middle East Studies (April 2016), 30.
In The Claremont Globetrotter 4: 2 (Spring 2013), 3-5.
Review of Middle East Studies, 2019
Review of Middle East Studies, 2018
Review of Middle East Studies, 2018
Review of Middle East Studies, 2017
"Ottomans, Ottomanists and the State: Re-Defining an Ethos of Power in the Long Sixteenth Century... more "Ottomans, Ottomanists and the State: Re-Defining an Ethos of Power in the Long Sixteenth Century," in POLITICAL THOUGHT AND PRACTICE IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRΕ: Halcyon days in Crete IX, ed. Marinos Sariyannis (Rethymno, Greece: Crete University Press, 2019), 19-43.
Jadaliyya, 2018
An interview discussing The Proper Order of Things (2018): http://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/38176