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Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 127–149.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Neel Ahuja This article offers a critique of the recently declassified U.S. Department of Justice memorandum that authorized the CIA to torture the suspected al-Qa'idah member Abu Zubaydah by placing him in a confinement box with an insect. The CIA claims that this form of coercive interrogation...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (4 (101)): 25–44.
Published: 01 December 2009
... toward professional degrees amid billion-dollar architectural projects in Dubai and Abu Dhabi). The history of theater's institutional formation points to its complicity or vulnerability to the capitalist regime of the global university. This means that we have to view its disciplinary fissures, both...
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Social Text (2007) 25 (2 (91)): 103–142.
Published: 01 June 2007
... of those who were its perpetrators. Michelle Brown had made this point already in 2005, when she wrote that the shock of the photographs from Abu Ghraib consisted in the “patriotic delight of the torturers, in America ‘out of place.’ ” For Brown, Abu Ghraib represents the exportation...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (4 (129)): 87–110.
Published: 01 December 2016
... theory, see Abu El-Haj, “Racial Palestinianization.” On concealment, surveillance, and witnessing as central to the visual politics of the Israeli occupation, see Hochberg, Visual Occupations . 14 Rose, Question of Zion . 15 Azoulay and Ophir, One-State Condition . 16...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (2 (95)): 83–103.
Published: 01 June 2008
... through the suburb of al- Ma’amûra, then curves past the fort on the left and the new Friday mosque and suq on the right, runs through the middle of what used to be gardens in the neighborhood of Bûstân Lahma, and finally exits the former town boundaries continuing in the direction of the Abu Dhabi...
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Social Text (2003) 21 (2 (75)): 25–48.
Published: 01 June 2003
..., the exceptional killing. They heard about it from oth- ers, or learned about its occurrence in an indirect way. Such was the case with Abu Nayif’s testimony, for example. Referring to the arrival of “the Zikhronites,” people from the nearby Jewish settlement of Zikhron Ya’kov, he said: “We were lucky...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (2 (107)): 67–97.
Published: 01 June 2011
...: the Israeli state is accused of trying to eradicate Palestinians, and yet the state institutes an impressive infrastructure of control based on Palestinians’ continued Ahuja • Abu Zubaydah and the Caterpillar presence in Palestine/Israel. Against...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (2 (107)): 21–46.
Published: 01 June 2011
..., and sub­sequent restaging outside, resonates with my interest, here, in contests over interiors and exteriors in postsocialist China. Alongside bedding, Ahuja • Abu Zubaydah and the Caterpillar cooking wares, basic gear, and furniture, the only other “stuff...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (3 (108)): 51–72.
Published: 01 September 2011
... to reproduce.5 The film takes a particularly North American and post- ­9/11 angle in its adaptation, changing English characters into American ones and evoking obvious visual parallels to the war in Iraq, Abu Ghraib prison...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (2 (107)): 99–117.
Published: 01 June 2011
... are “forgotten” by America. In this essay, my aim is to explore another site of Filipino American cultural production that broadly engages with the corporeal and discursive Ahuja • Abu Zubaydah and the Caterpillar production of the Filipino...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (2 (119)): 77–93.
Published: 01 June 2014
... passed. —  Lila Abu-Lughod­ A man [shot] a bullet into the neck of my sister Salhiyeh who was nine months pregnant. Then he cut her stomach open with a butcher’s knife. — Testimony of Ms. Haleem Eid, 30, survivor of the Deir Yassin massacre Mona Hatoum is one of the most...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (3 (108)): 93–124.
Published: 01 September 2011
....2 From pen- sions to microcredit, from subprime lending to credit card debt, from Ahuja • Abu Zubaydah and the Caterpillar endemic state deficits to international “development” loans, the whole world is increasingly...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (1 (118)): 1–21.
Published: 01 March 2014
... the most potent emblem of the occupation in recent years is the “wall of racial separation” ( jidar al-fasl­ al-­cunsuri) — called in Hebrew the “separation fence” (Geder HaHafrada) — that is rapidly enclosing the West Bank on itself. A Pal- estinian retiree from Abu Dis, a town that borders...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (2 (143)): 19–47.
Published: 01 June 2020
... 2020 References Ahuja Neel . “ Abu Zubaydah and the Caterpillar .” Social Text , no. 106 ( 2011 ): 127 – 49 . Ahuja Neel . “ Post-mortem on Race and Control .” In Control Culture: Foucault and Deleuze after Discipline , edited by Beckman Frida , 34 – 43 . Edinburgh...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (4 (109)): 1–27.
Published: 01 December 2011
...- tion on the planet today, and it is said to form the oldest extant civilization Ahuja • Abu Zubaydah and the Caterpillar in the world. Nevertheless, it is not at all obvious just what makes China such a seemingly solid object of knowledge. For one thing, there are mul...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (4 (109)): 29–56.
Published: 01 December 2011
... as a concept than as an Ahuja • Abu Zubaydah and the Caterpillar ideal disposition proper to humanness. As such, the pursuit of benevolence requires the generation of serious discussion as to what should constitute the true path for the self, insofar...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (3 (108)): 31–49.
Published: 01 September 2011
... masculinity through violence, exploring how sexuality as violence shapes the institutionalizing Ahuja • Abu Zubaydah and the Caterpillar of gender relations on a society-­wide level. The Story of Lajja Lajja gathers...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (3 (108)): 73–91.
Published: 01 September 2011
... of political constituencies through moral panics, though they involve these and more.7 The argument here, in short, is that the Ahuja • Abu Zubaydah and the Caterpillar proposition of a return to foundations in a new way — at once invoking fis...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (3 (108)): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2011
... there were clear camps of intellectuals who had competing claims linked to various ideological positions that sought to impress on the state and the Ahuja • Abu Zubaydah and the Caterpillar populace the legitimacy of one set of ideas over others. One group...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (4 (109)): 57–79.
Published: 01 December 2011
... of the barbarians as ethnic minorities can explain several things at once about China, including even about its modern ruling elite. Despite Ahuja • Abu Zubaydah and the Caterpillar its religious adherence to modern science (which in the West served...