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Cinematic Contact Zones: Hemispheric Romances in Film and the Construction and Reconstruction of Latin Americanism
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Social Text (2010) 28 (3 (104)): 119–150.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Adrián Pérez Melgosa This essay researches the complex role that films portraying Anglo-Latin romances have played in the construction, dissemination, and reconstruction of Latin Americanism—the set of discourses representing and theorizing Latin America from local, U.S., and European...
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From Warfare State to “Shadow State”: MILITARISM, ECONOMIC DEPLETION, AND RECONSTRUCTION
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Social Text (2007) 25 (2 (91)): 143–168.
Published: 01 June 2007
...Jonathan Michael Feldman Duke University Press 2007 From Warfare State to “Shadow State”
MILITARISM, ECONOMIC DEPLETION, AND RECONSTRUCTION
From the Permanent War Economy Jonathan...
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In the Ruins of Bahla: Reconstructed Forts and Crumbling Walls in an Omani Town
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Social Text (2008) 26 (2 (95)): 83–103.
Published: 01 June 2008
... further reminders of the possibilities of Oman's future after the demise of the sultan and when oil reserves are depleted. Duke University Press 2008 In the Ruins of Bahla
Reconstructed Forts and Crumbling Walls
in an Omani Town
Mandana E. Limbert
The two-lane Muscat-Buraimi highway cuts...
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Splicing the Sonic Color-Line: Tony Schwartz Remixes Postwar Nueva York
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Social Text (2010) 28 (1 (102)): 59–85.
Published: 01 March 2010
... are essential listening for two reasons. One, Schwartz's meticulous attention to what he called the “sounds of [his] times”—and, I would add, of his place—helps scholars reconstruct the 1950s from a new vantage point: the ear. Two, Schwartz understood something that sound studies scholars are only beginning...
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Recovering Fugitive Freedoms
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 61–67.
Published: 01 December 2015
... Davis 2016 Reconstruction black political formations freed people post–Civil War References Aptheker Herbert . (1948) 1991 . To Be Free: Pioneering Studies in Afro-American History . New York : Citadel Press . Brown Elsa Barkley . 1997 . “To Catch the Vision...
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Deaf Jam: From Inscription to Reproduction to Information
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Social Text (2010) 28 (1 (102)): 35–58.
Published: 01 March 2010
... the representation of sounds by considering speech not in terms of meaning nor in terms of airborne waveforms but in terms of the characteristics of its perception and the minimum features by which it could be reconstructed. The sound spectrograph was designed to make telephone transmission more efficient...
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Hinging on Exclusion and Exception: Bare Life, the US/Mexico Border, and Los que nunca llegarán
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Social Text (2012) 30 (4 (113)): 103–123.
Published: 01 December 2012
... Highway (2004), Luis Alberto Urrea’s documentary narrative account of a failed border-crossing expedition in 2001 that killed fourteen migrants. I read Urrea’s narrative reconstruction of this event, a case that remains the single worst migrant death-event in Arizona border history, as unconcealing...
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“This Is Not the Sound of the Asian Underground”: On the Borders of Britain's New Asian Kool, 1997–2000
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Social Text (2025) 43 (1 (162)): 71–89.
Published: 01 March 2025
...Tariq Jazeel Abstract This article reconstructs a recent historical geography of the late 1990s genre of British Asian dance music that became known as “New Asian Kool” or Asian Underground. Most synonymous with the musician Talvin Singh, whose album OK won the Mercury Music Prize in 1999...
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Stock Histories
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Social Text (2019) 37 (1 (138)): 107–115.
Published: 01 March 2019
..., historically, and geographically inaccurate in all other ways, the stock image rather ingeniously—and I assume quite unintentionally—manages to stage the correspondence between the Confederacy and the Plains. The Compromise of 1877, which marks the end, and failures, of Reconstruction, was drafted the same...
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“You Make Me Feel Right Quare”: Promiscuous Reading, Minoritarian Critique, and White Sovereign Entrepreneurial Terror
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Social Text (2017) 35 (4): 53–86.
Published: 01 December 2017
... article “Venus in Two Acts.” I admit here that, while my admiration for Hartman’s work and thinking is without limit, particularly as it relates to her investigation of the post-Reconstruction political sphere, and while I completely agree with her conclusions in both of these pieces, which ultimately...
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Social Text (2001) 19 (2 (67)): 1–13.
Published: 01 June 2001
...: it indicates a renewed
attention to the methodologies and strategies embedded within key works
within the African diasporic intellectual tradition itself, such as W. E. B.
Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction (1935) and C. L. R. James’s...
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Stained University: Reckoning with Duke's Nexus of Higher Education and Tobacco Capitalism
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Social Text (2021) 39 (1 (146)): 93–123.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of Reconstruction in the South, attempting to create conditions of equality and freedom. In response, the Southern plantation class joined with property-hungry Northern industrialists for what W. E. B. Du Bois called “the counter-revolution of property,” to fight the Reconstruction projects with overt violence...
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Third World Project, or How Poco Failed
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Social Text (2013) 31 (1 (114)): 1–20.
Published: 01 March 2013
... the dif-
ferences, historical or otherwise. This essay, then, is not a critique. Rather,
it is an intellectual reconstruction whose aim is to lay the foundations for
the delineation of what I call the homogeneous time of decolonization...
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Social Text (2006) 24 (2 (87)): 1–9.
Published: 01 June 2006
... representations of
indigenous femininity in the “imperial archipelago” of the Philippines.
Reading travel literature, photography, and imperial ethnography with a
postcolonial eye, Balce seeks to imaginatively reconstruct the violence of
American rule in the Philippines since 1898, connecting...
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Storytelling and the Comparative Study of Atlantic Slavery and Freedom
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 109–130.
Published: 01 December 2015
... encounter in the complexly imbricated archives of the Atlantic
slave trade and Asian indenture; it marks the complex relational practices
of silencing to which colonized and enslaved populations were subjected.
Hence, reconstructing stories from...
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History Hesitant
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 85–107.
Published: 01 December 2015
... social critique,
from W. E. B. Du Bois’s observations in Black Reconstruction (1935) that
slavery was not an aberration of American democracy but its central con-
Social Text 125 • Vol. 33, No. 4 • December 2015
DOI 10.1215/01642472...
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The Ground Not Given: Colonial Dispositions of Land, Race, and Hunger
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Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 83–106.
Published: 01 June 2018
... Reconstruction . On the ways in which the settler mode of production combines racial difference and alienation to cultivate particular forms of precarity and expendability, see Day, Alien Capital . 33 Chan, This Bittersweet Soil . 34 See, e.g., Stephen, Transborder Lives . 35...
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Contributors
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Social Text (2003) 21 (2 (75)): np.
Published: 01 June 2003
... in English, Arabic, and Hebrew in a variety of journals, including
Sociology, Work, Employment, and Society, Social Identities, Arab Studies
Quarterly, and Al-Karmel. He has published several chapters in edited
anthologies. His research investigates the reconstruction of the history of
the Palestinian...
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Social Text (2007) 25 (2 (91)): np.
Published: 01 June 2007
... Corrupted Rosalind C. Morris 103
From Warfare State to “Shadow State”: Militarism, Economic
Depletion, and Reconstruction Jonathan Michael Feldman 143
Combat in Hell: Cities as the Achilles’ Heel of U.S. Imperial
Hegemony Ashley Dawson 169...
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Contributors
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Social Text (2008) 26 (2 (95)): np.
Published: 01 June 2008
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AbdouMaliq Simone 13
“City of Whores”: Nationalism, Development, and Global Garment
Workers in Sri Lanka • Sandya Hewamanne 35
Urban Modernity on the Periphery: A New Middle Class Reinvents
the Palestinian City • Lisa Taraki 61
In the Ruins of Bahla: Reconstructed Forts and Crumbling...
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