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Monkey Business: Interspecies Longing and Scientific Prophecy in Experimental Xenotransplantation

Lesley A. Sharp
Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 43–69.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-1210265
Published: 01 March 2011
... University Press 2011 Monkey Business Interspecies Longing and Scientific Prophecy in Experimental Xenotransplantation Lesley A. Sharp The scientific longing to generate seamless forms of interspeciality is the mark of xenotransplantation, a highly experimental branch of transplant...
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Unfinished Business: Notes toward an Artist Statement

Carey Young
Social Text (2013) 31 (2 (115)): 145–152.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2081166
Published: 01 June 2013
...., 35 secs., 1999. © Carey Young. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Unfinished Business Notes toward an Artist Statement Carey Young As an artist I aim to operate in the gap between art and a life controlled to an unprecedented degree by corporate power. A number of my works feature...
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When Stanley Aronowitz Went to Business School

Chris Carter, Stefano Harney
Social Text (2023) 41 (2 (155)): 101–107.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-10383319
Published: 01 June 2023
... Island and joined Leicester — one of only two times in my academic career I left a job voluntarily! Soon, with other scholars and teachers of a similar outlook, I joined the business school at Queen Mary, University of London, under the headship of a critical historian of business firms, Michael...
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“The End of Business Schools?”: MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE

Tony Tinker
Social Text (2004) 22 (2 (79)): 67–80.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-22-2_79-67
Published: 01 June 2004
... as power:Discourse and ideology in modern society . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ____. 2000 . The knowledge factory:Dismantling the corporate university and creating true higher education . Boston: Beacon. Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International(AACSB). 1999a. Data...
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After Sexology

Joan Lubin, Jeanne Vaccaro
Social Text (2021) 39 (3 (148)): 1–16.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9034376
Published: 01 September 2021
... familiar sites of sexological persistence (the sex-segregated public toilet) but also less immediately obvious ones (the Moynihan report, redlining, the army base) as executing the unfinished business of the sexological project. This breadth of sexological diffusion makes its analysis a necessarily...
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From the Sky to the Streets, and Back: Geographies of Imperial Warfare in East Africa

Samar Al-Bulushi
Social Text (2022) 40 (3 (152)): 37–59.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9771049
Published: 01 September 2022
... . Highlighting the role played by the Kenyan state in the ongoing war against the Somali militant group al-Shabaab, it takes seriously the African subjects who co-constitute geographies of war making in East Africa today, from the political and business elite who normalize militarized masculinities...
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Capitalism’s Care Problem: Some Traces, Fixes, and Patches

Micki McGee
Social Text (2020) 38 (1 (142)): 39–66.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-7971091
Published: 01 March 2020
... a “stalled revolution” and historian Kirsten Swinth describes as “feminism’s unfinished business” has precipitated an array of care fixes and patches: persons suffering from the consequent care deficit (either exhausted from providing care at home and the office, or lacking in care for themselves, or both...
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Ideology

Stefano Harney
Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 147–151.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2009-026
Published: 01 September 2009
... in teaching, in a British business school, between undergraduate students and reports of the current financial crisis, approaching the crisis phenomenologically. The article concludes with a discussion of mutual promises and possession in the world of finance. © 2009 Duke University Press 2009 Feminism...
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Labor and Class

Rick Maxwell
Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 155–157.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2009-028
Published: 01 September 2009
... and class; gender and class; the state of the Left and the labor movement; working-class depictions in popular culture as well as in institutional discourses of business and government; commodification and class consciousness. Works also focused on new social movements, post-Fordist or postindustrial...
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An All-Consuming Cause: BREAST CANCER, CORPORATE PHILANTHROPY, AND THE MARKET FOR GENEROSITY

Samantha King
Social Text (2001) 19 (4 (69)): 115–143.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-19-4_69-115
Published: 01 December 2001
...Samantha King Duke University Press 2001 Alperson, M. 1995 . Corporate giving strategies that add business value . New York: Conference Board. Altman, R. 1996 . Waking up/fighting back:The politics of breast cancer . Boston: Little, Brown &Co. Arnott, N. 1994 . Marketing...
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Invoking Fiscal Crisis: MORAL DISCOURSE AND POLITICS IN NEW YORK CITY

Julian Brash
Social Text (2003) 21 (3 (76)): 59–83.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-21-3_76-59
Published: 01 September 2003
... 2002. Lentz, Philip. 2002 . “Business Split on Fighting Mike; Real Estate Opposes Property Tax Hike, but Others Move to Back Mayor's Plan,” Crain's New York Business , 18 November 2002, 1 . Martin, Randy. 2002 . Financialization of Everyday Life . Philadelphia: Temple University Press...
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The Urbanization of Labor: LIVING-WAGE ACTIVISM IN THE AMERICAN CITY

Andy Merrifield
Social Text (2000) 18 (1 (62)): 31–54.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-18-1_62-31
Published: 01 March 2000
... all U.S. cities have been locked into Andy Merrifield a mode of urbanization best described as “entrepreneurial.” Webster’s Dic- tionary of American English defines entrepreneur as somebody “who orga- nizes and manages an enterprise, especially a business, usually...
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Jurassic U: THE STATE OF UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY RELATIONS

Christopher Newfield
Social Text (2004) 22 (2 (79)): 37–66.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-22-2_79-37
Published: 01 June 2004
...Christopher Newfield Duke University Press 2004 Jurassic U THE STATE OF UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY RELATIONS Concerns about the university’s business deals are as old as the university...
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Trust, Corruption, and the Globalization Tango

Jane Marcus-Delgado
Social Text (2003) 21 (4 (77)): 139–153.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-21-4_77-139
Published: 01 December 2003
... focused on the annual meeting’s theme: building trust. The forum’s organizers acknowledged that the “string of corporate scandals of 2002 contributed to the serious undermining of trust as an intrinsic value.”1 They further observed that corporate corruption had become bad for business...
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Regimes of Self-Improvement: Globalization and the Will to Work

Daromir Rudnyckyj
Social Text (2014) 32 (3 (120)): 109–127.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2703878
Published: 01 September 2014
... Effective People has proven appealing to non-­Christian audiences the world over. The book has spawned a human resources training program that has been held in more than 140 countries. Years after its initial publication, Adrian Zackheim, president and publisher of Portfolio, Penguin’s business...
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Introduction: CORRUPTION IN CORPORATE CULTURE

Randy Martin, Ella Shohat
Social Text (2003) 21 (4 (77)): 1–7.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-21-4_77-1
Published: 01 December 2003
... relevant to our “real” national concerns. Enron, Arthur Andersen, WorldCom, and ImClone could have been relegated to the arcane workings of business. Yet the question of corruption touches every fiber of contemporary sociopolitical life, linking “domestic” and “for- eign” affairs in multiple ways...
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Notes from the Princeton Divestment Campaign

Vincent Lloyd, Zia Mian
Social Text (2003) 21 (2 (75)): 111–123.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-21-2_75-111
Published: 01 June 2003
... arrested for trespassing and obstruction.2 The next fall, the faculty voted 114–96 to support a resolution calling on the board of trustees to “adopt a policy of total divestment of university holdings in rms doing business in South Africa...
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Cloning Scapegoats: MARTHA STEWART DOES INSIDER TRADING

Nancy Shaw
Social Text (2003) 21 (4 (77)): 51–67.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-21-4_77-51
Published: 01 December 2003
... to powerful business interests. Many legislators are, or have been, corporate executives, board members, and stockowners. Their support of neoliberalism and deregulation is tantamount. Moreover, dur- Cloning Scapegoats: Martha Stewart 53...
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The Soul of Neoliberalism

Bethany E. Moreton
Social Text (2007) 25 (3 (92)): 103–123.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2007-007
Published: 01 September 2007
... prioritize their own concept of the greater good? Readers may disagree with the content of that concept, but surely not with the common human urge to honor it. Christian business culture has managed the post-Fordist crisis in mul- tiple sites by attention to these decidedly inefficient...
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Enron and Failed Futures: POLICY AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN THE WAKE OF ENRON'S COLLAPSE

David M. Brennan
Social Text (2003) 21 (4 (77)): 35–50.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-21-4_77-35
Published: 01 December 2003
... influence. Few people knew exactly what Enron’s business was. Bethany McLean, a reporter for For- tune, asked months prior to the collapse, “How exactly does Enron make its money?”4 The question is difficult to answer; the “details are hard to come by because Enron keeps many of its specifics confidential...
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