The Introduction

Chakrabarti, Pratik

doi:10.1086/738223

The Introduction

2025-12-01

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The question for this Focus Section, is deep history white, is posed by the fact that deep time is predominantly derived from the writings of European savants from the eighteenth century. Yet, as this issue shows, these concepts are often used to depict the histories of people, their livelihoods, and landscapes, which are situated beyond Western Europe and its conceptual frames of deep history, in West Asia, Australia, Africa, and S & aacute;pmi. These peoples and regions often bear the political and economic consequences of deep time through displacement from land, memories, and stories. Deep history identified the historical imagination in the European study of the earth's histories. This issue asks if that particular genealogy is white. This whiteness is both at the level of the people who enjoyed and continue to exercise the right to practice and define that discipline as well at the level of its epistemological hegemony in obscuring other imaginations of the past. This Focus Section brings together scholarship from the leading experts and emerging scholars on these issues.

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deep history

whiteness

epistemology

colonialism

historical imagination

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