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(Theorizing the) Americas

Ana María Dopico
Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 43–51.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2009-006
Published: 01 September 2009
... the politics of multiculturalism, border studies, and Latino cultures in the United States. Contributors read the queer voices and homophobic paranoia of patriotic discourse—founding new disciplines that deconstructed the gendered authority of the state and established a new archive of queer poetics across...
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Ruinous Speculation, Tunnel Environments, and the Sustainable Infrastructures of the Border

Juan Llamas-Rodriguez
Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 97–123.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-10013332
Published: 01 December 2022
... of the geopolitical divide. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 border studies speculative design infrastructures media studies sustainability “What sort of worlds might we find if we could have a totalizing view of the underground?” This is the premise...
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Embodied Forms of State Domination: Gender and the Camp Grant Massacre

Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández
Social Text (2010) 28 (3 (104)): 91–117.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2010-005
Published: 01 September 2010
...Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández This essay places the 1871 Camp Grant Indian Massacre in the context of the rise of a capitalist class of citizens and the state-sponsored violence they enacted as part of a war-based cross-border economy. Tracing transnational circuits of power in the borderland...
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Introduction: Dehumanist Education and the Colonial University

Nathan Snaza, Julietta Singh
Social Text (2021) 39 (1 (146)): 1–19.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-8750064
Published: 01 March 2021
...Nathan Snaza; Julietta Singh Abstract This introduction to the special issue “Educational Undergrowth” proposes an ecological view of educational institutions and practices, one that foregrounds the porosity of borders so that entities and institutions that can sometimes seem distinct are thought...
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Introduction: Dislocations across the Americas

David Sartorius, Micol Seigel
Social Text (2010) 28 (3 (104)): 1–10.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2010-001
Published: 01 September 2010
... connections, transnational studies have in the past decade brought interdependencies into clearer view. Transnational method, unconfined to any given field, has been a welcoming site for the accumulation of border-­transcending insights across the (inter)disci- plines. Indeed, the youth...
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Border Abolitionism: Analytics/Politics

Martina Tazzioli, Nicholas De Genova
Social Text (2023) 41 (3 (156)): 1–34.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-10613639
Published: 01 September 2023
..., a founding premise of Chicano studies has always been the decolonial recognition that “we didn't cross the border; the border crossed us.” 38 This same theoretical outlook, with its defining disaffection and defiance toward borders, informs numerous contemporary solidarity and humanitarian campaigns...
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Hinging on Exclusion and Exception: Bare Life, the US/Mexico Border, and Los que nunca llegarán

Abraham Acosta
Social Text (2012) 30 (4 (113)): 103–123.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-1725811
Published: 01 December 2012
... as those crossing the US/Mexico border into the United States will not all be from Mexico itself (fewer and fewer are), neither is Mexican American (Raza) studies the only ethnic studies course in danger of being shut down for violating HB 2281. The stakes...
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The Fragile Ends of War: Forging the United States Mexico Border and Borderlands Consciousness

Gilberto Rosas
Social Text (2007) 25 (2 (91)): 81–102.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2006-028
Published: 01 June 2007
... as activist knowl- and tactics in edges has come to recognize as the militarization of the border.12 Indeed, the Pentagon’s Center for the Study of Low Intensity Conflict aided in the the policing of writing of the Border Patrol Strategic Plan: 1994 and Beyond, and senior...
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The European Question: Migration, Race, and Postcoloniality in Europe

Nicholas De Genova
Social Text (2016) 34 (3 (128)): 75–102.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3607588
Published: 01 September 2016
..., and Immigration in the New Europe ”. Annual Review of Anthropology 34 : 363 – 84 . Soto Bermant Laia . 2014 . “ Consuming Europe: The Moral Significance of Mobility and Exchange at the Spanish-Moroccan Border of Melilla ”. Journal of North African Studies 19 , no. 3 : 110 – 29 . Stoler...
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Domestic Affairs: National Security and the Politics of Protest at India's “Friendly” Borderlands

Sahana Ghosh
Social Text (2022) 40 (3 (152)): 61–82.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9771063
Published: 01 September 2022
... of such dissent to reinforce its legitimacy as a liberal democracy. Border residents in eastern India, predominantly Muslim or depressed caste, are minority citizens. By closely reading the terms through which they articulate their claims and humiliations and how they are rendered suspect, subordinated...
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Digital Precarity Manifesto

Precarity Lab
Social Text (2019) 37 (4 (141)): 77–93.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-7794402
Published: 01 December 2019
..., it is clear that these networks are broken. Written by Precarity Lab, a group of intergenerational, transnational feminist and people and women of color scholars, this manifesto envisions a new approach to digital studies. It argues for a new analytic for tracing how precarity unfolds across disparate...
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“Anxious Desires”: Hyperbolic Beautification and Affective Infrastructure under Mexico's National Border Program, 1961–1971

George F. Flaherty
Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 69–95.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-10013318
Published: 01 December 2022
... “Doors of Mexico” border crossing in Nogales (architects Mario Pani with García Ramos, Hilario Galguera, Víctor Vila and Miguel de la Torre, 1963). Reproduction from L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui 109 (1963). In Tijuana, Guillermo Rossell de la Lama and Manuel Larrosa, two architects who studied...
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Cartographic Irresolution and the Line of Control

Ananya Jahanara Kabir
Social Text (2009) 27 (4 (101)): 45–66.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2009-054
Published: 01 December 2009
..., and Joya Chatterji. 29. See Joya Chatterji, “The Fashioning of a Frontier: The Radcliffe Line and Bengal’s Border Landscape, 1947 – 1952,” Modern Asian Studies 33 (1999): 185 – 242. 30. Thongchai, Siam...
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Introduction: THE BORDER NEXT DOOR: NEW YORK MIGRACIONES

Carlos Ulises Decena, Margaret Gray
Social Text (2006) 24 (3 (88)): 1–12.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2006-001
Published: 01 September 2006
.... While many of these essays are in conversation with transnational studies, the authors have varying ideas of what “transnational” means. Their individual engagements with this concept demonstrate how fluid the border is and how...
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Without Their Children: RETHINKING MOTHERHOOD AMONG TRANSNATIONAL MIGRANT WOMEN

Melanie Nicholson
Social Text (2006) 24 (3 (88)): 13–33.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2006-002
Published: 01 September 2006
..., lies somewhere in between these two extremes of (mis)interpretation. Conventional wisdom has it that the migrant worker crossing inter- national borders is a young unattached male. However, studies show that since 1930, females have predominated in legal immigration...
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Introduction: Reading for Infrastructure

Adriana Michele Campos Johnson, Daniel Nemser
Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 1–16.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-10013276
Published: 01 December 2022
... of development, as witnessed in George F. Flaherty's study of the anxious reach of the Mexican state to deploy infrastructural formations on territorial borders that might strengthen feelings of national identification where there is a perceived deficit. Finally, these essays variously probe the affective...
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Security from the South: Postcolonial and Imperial Entanglements

Samar Al-Bulushi, Sahana Ghosh, Inderpal Grewal
Social Text (2022) 40 (3 (152)): 1–15.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9771021
Published: 01 September 2022
... inquiry not only in empirical studies in/of the Global South but also in a commitment to explore epistemologies and concepts that emerge from these contexts. Deploying a transnational feminist approach, we capture the fluidity between supposedly separate scales (e.g., North/South, intimate/global, etc...
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Water as Protagonist

After Globalism Writing Group
Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 15–23.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-4298505
Published: 01 March 2018
... movements on Sioux territories, telegraph the future. How does water become the enlivened center of our historical and future planetary imaginaries rather than merely an afterthought? Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 Anthropocene borders decolonization Flint Michigan water Our...
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Bodyscapes: Globalization, Corporeal Politics, and Violence in Mexico

Rodrigo Parrini
Social Text (2010) 28 (3 (104)): 67–89.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2010-004
Published: 01 September 2010
... the methodological pre- cautions that Michel Foucault proposes for the study of power. First, to study it “in its extremities, at its outer limits, at the point where it becomes capillary.”3 Second, to study it in its “real and effective practices,” to be able to grasp the “material agency of subjugation.”4...
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“New Others”: Ideological Images of Refugees in Present-Day Slovenia

Mitja Velikonja
Social Text (2022) 40 (2 (151)): 49–68.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9631131
Published: 01 June 2022
... the “(Western) Balkan route” 4 pose a fateful challenge to the Europe of national countries and their respective national cultures. With more than three thousand drowned migrants per year, 5 the European Union can hide behind abstract phrases such as “open borders,” “freedom for all,” or human rights...
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