Flows, circuits, transnational actors, mobilities, and exchanges are seemingly everywhere. Sixteen years on, what should we make of the transnational turn? How has it usefully transformed our historical practice?
And what might have gotten lost in the centrality it accorded to flows and movement? This forum brings together a dozen younger and mid-career scholars, most of whom came up in our discipline well after the transnational turn had taken place. They were invited to contribute with an eye toward exploring the broad chronological, thematic and spatial range of histories that have come to be called transnational. As you will see, their essays are often deeply personal, and most reflect upon the effect of, perhaps, the greatest global event of our generation—the COVID-19 pandemic—on the lives of scholars and on the field.
"Troubling the Global South in Global History"