The Rest is Political

This issue of Radical History Review explores the radical potential for the historical study of sleep and rest while it considers how people and communities make history at times of repose, inspired by the contemporary urgency of ensuring the right to restorative time away from labor. In a range of research articles and essays that highlight research spanning the globe, contributing authors explore how rest and sleep have been fundamental and contested features of political, economic and cultural systems and imaginaries, social movements and activist interventions.

Contributors: Amy Chazkel, Josh Clendenin, Mali D. Collins, Sarah Dowling, Hermann W. von Hesse, Anup Grewal, Hamed Khosravi, Lauren Michelle Levesque, Ynaê Lopes dos Santos, Allan E. S. Lumba, Lina Qu, Hannah Proctor, Khal Schneider, Bohdan Shumylovych, Yana Skorobogatov, Carl Stewart, Melissa Story, M. Ty, Terry Williams, Lauren N. Whitehurst