The author of several edited volumes and numerous articles, essays, and book reviews that crossed geographies and disciplines, Harlow grounded her discussions of anti-imperialist struggle and its cultural politics in “theoretical-historical” or “historicized-theoretical” formulations. Her work was always critical, generative, and political. Harlow focused on the possibility of producing narratives that challenge conditions of domination and oppression, as well as the disciplinary boundaries and modes of analysis within the academy that supported these conditions and restricted “more comparative and critical ways” of reading and writing. She saw construction and (re)construction of the historical record as part of the process of forging alternative futures. She emphasized the contradictions and debates within these projects as generative of what she called “renewed histories of the future” (Harlow 1996, 10). She entwined them and located emancipatory potential in each even as both were subject to her criticism. Barbara Harlow and the Necessity of ‘Renewed Histories of the Future’īarbara Harlow’s commitment to struggles for liberation and justice was always at the same time a commitment to academic inquiry.
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