Publications – The Reluctant Internationalists (2013-2017)

Our project is no longer active. These are our publications between 2013-2017.

Newsletters

Our termly newsletters outline some of the projects we’ve been working on and provide details of forthcoming events and collaborations.

War Comes to School: Life at Peckham Central School, London, England, 1943. (Credit: © IWM (D 12190) Imperial War Museums)

‘Europe in Crisis’ blog series

Posts in this series place current developments and debates in a historical context.

2 October 2015: Jessica Reinisch, ‘History matters…but which one? Every refugee crisis has a context’ (co-published with History & Policy)
6 October 2015: Jessica Reinisch, ‘On news and non-news: Calais migrants, once again’
12 October 2015: Friederike Kind-Kovacs, ‘Budapest’s Eastern Train Station: From the Past to Today’s (Child) Refugee Crisis’
22 October 2015: Dora Vargha, ‘Mnemonic Battles on 23 October’
26 October 2015: Elidor Mehilli, ‘Europe’s ‘fake’ refugees’
2 November 2015: Ana Antic, ‘At the Gates of Europe: The Eastern European Refugee Crisis’
9 November 2015: Pamela Ballinger, ‘Lessons from Europe’s Refugee Pasts’
16 November 2015: Darcie Fontaine, ‘Temporary Migrants or Permanent Immigrants: France’s long migrant crisis’
27 November 2015: Kiran Klaus Patel, ‘Crisis, What Crisis? The EU in Historical Perspective’
5 December 2015: David Bryan, ‘History, ‘internationalism’ and the British debate on Syria’
7 December 2015: Jim Bjork, ‘One of Us? Dealing with Difference Among People on the Move’
17 December 2015: Hiroki Shin, ‘The Paris Climate Agreement and the Year 1965: How Much Can We Achieve in 50 Years (Or Less)?’
21 December 2015: Becky Taylor, ‘‘The Dangers of Sympathy’
4 January 2016: Martin Conway, ‘The State of Europe’
21 January 2016: Eleanor Davey, ‘The bombing of Kunduz and the crisis of international humanitarian law’
5 July 2016: Bertrand Taithe, ‘Internationalists in the Age of Nationalism’

Articles and books

A selection of publications by members of the research group, 2014-2016:

Dora Vargha, Outbreaks of Disease and War: polio’s history with conflict, The Guardian, May 8, 2014
Ana Antic, Therapeutic Fascism: re-educating communists in Nazi-occupied Serbia, 1942-44″, History of Psychiatry, vol. 25, no. 1, 2014, 35-56
Ana Antic, “Heroes and Hysterics: ‘Partisan Hysteria’ and Communist State-building in Yugoslavia after 1945,” Social History of Medicine, Vol.27, No.3, August 2014
Dora Vargha, “Between East and West: Polio Vaccination across the Iron Curtain in Cold War Hungary”, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 88, No.2, Summer 2014
Matthew Frank and Jessica Reinisch, editors, Refugees and the Nation-State in Europe, 1919-1959, special issue of Journal of Contemporary History, Vol.49, No.3, July 2014
Matthew Frank and Jessica Reinisch, “Introduction: Refugees and the Nation-State in Europe, 1919-1959”, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol.49, No.3, July 2014, pp. 477-490
Dora Vargha, Between East and West: Polio vaccination across the iron curtain in cold war Hungary, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 88, no. 2, 2014, 319-343
Dora Vargha and David Brydan, Los antivacunas y el pasado fascista de España, El País, June 12, 2015
Johanna Conterio, “Inventing the Subtropics: An Environmental History of Sochi, 1929–36,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, Vol. 16, No. 1, Winter 2015
Jessica Reinisch, “’Forever Temporary’: Migrants in Calais, Then and Now”, The Political Quarterly, December 2015, Vol.86, No.4
Free version here
Johanna Conterio, “Heating the Groves: Imported Technology, Transnational Scientific Networks and the Acclimatization of Citrus in the USSR, 1928-1941,” in Bryan Dewalt and Nina Möllers (eds.) Objects in Motion: Globalizing Technology (Smithsonian Institution Press, 2016)
Ana Antic, Therapeutic Fascism: Experiencing the Violence of the Nazi New Order (Oxford Studies in Modern European History), Oxford University Press, 2016
Ana Antic, “The Pedagogy of Workers’ Self-management: Terror, therapy, and reform communism in Yugoslavia after the Tito-Stalin split,” Journal of Social History, vol. 50, no. 1, 2016, 179-203
David Brydan, ‘Axis Internationalism: Spanish Health Experts and the Nazi ’New Europe‘, 1939-1945’, Contemporary European History, 25:2 (May 2016), 291-311
Ana Antic, Johanna Conterio, Dora Vargha “Beyond Liberal Internationalism,” in “Agents of Internationalism”, special issue, Contemporary European History 25, no. 2 (May 2016): 359-371
Dora Vargha, “After the End of Disease: Rethinking the Epidemic Narrative“, Somatosphere, May 17, 2016
Johanna Conterio, “Places of Plenty: Patient Perspectives on Nutrition and Health in the Health Resorts of the USSR, 1917-1953,” Food & History, 14, nos. 1-3 (2016): 113-140
Ana Antic, “Therapeutic Violence: Psychoanalysis and the ‘Re-education’ of Political Prisoners in Cold War Yugoslavia and Eastern Europe“, in Daniel Pick and Matt Ffytche (eds.) Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism, Routledge, 2016
Dora Vargha, “Socialist Utopia in Practice: everyday life and medical authority in a Hungarian polio hospital“, Social History of Medicine, 2017
Dora Vargha and Jeremy Greene, “Grey-Market Medicines: Diphtheria antitoxin and the decay of biomedical infrastructure“, The Lancet , 2017
Dora Vargha, “Vaccination and the Communist State“, in Holmberg C, Blume S, Greenough P (eds) The Politics of Vaccination. A global history, Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 2017