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Social Text (2008) 26 (2 (95)): 35–59.
Published: 01 June 2008
... workers are rural to urban migrant women. Consequently, neighbors reinvented themselves as moral guardians of these new arrivals while many agents and institutions, including the media and NGOs, got involved in spatial and conceptual production of the new city and its gendered citizen subjects. This essay...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (2 (95)): 61–81.
Published: 01 June 2008
...Lisa Taraki The Palestinian town of Ramallah, possibly on the lowest rung of urban hierarchies in the region, is a peripheral town trying to become a city on the fringes of the Arab world. Its nascent new middle class partakes enthusiastically in the trans-Arab, urban, middle-class ethos elaborated...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (1 (126)): 75–96.
Published: 01 March 2016
... : Knopf . Aristotle . 1995 . Poetics . Edited and translated by Halliwell Stephen . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Calvino Italo . 1974 . Invisible Cities . New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich . de Certeau Michel . 1984 . “Walking in the City...
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Social Text (2017) 35 (1 (130)): 101–121.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Angela Garcia Based on ethnographic research and critical reflection on Carlos Reygadas’s film Post Tenebras Lux , this article explores the texture and temporality of crisis and endurance in Mexico. Specifically, it traces the transformation of one of Mexico City’s ubiquitous anexos (annexes...
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Social Text (2000) 18 (1 (62)): 31–54.
Published: 01 March 2000
...Andy Merrifield Duke University Press 2000 2. merrifield 2/11/00 10:50 AM Page 31
The Urbanization of Labor
LIVING-WAGE ACTIVISM IN THE AMERICAN CITY
For well...
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Social Text (2002) 20 (3 (72)): 31–38.
Published: 01 September 2002
...Lopamudra Basu Duke University Press 2002 The Poet in the Public Sphere
A Conversation with Meena Alexander
NEW YORK CITY, JANUARY 2002...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (3 (116)): 147–158.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Patrick Deer The embrace of the city in ruins was a familiar rallying cry of punk music. From Public Image Limited’s evocation of an urban subject murdered in the countryside while “the cassette played poptones,” to the Clash’s raucous calls for “a riot of our own,” to dub-influenced declarations...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (3 (120)): 11–28.
Published: 01 September 2014
... lines of flight become absolute dead ends? © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 On Liberation
Crack, Christianity, and Captivity in
Postwar Guatemala City
Kevin Lewis O’Neill
The enemy held my will and of it he made a chain and bound me.
— Augustine, Confessions
He...
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Social Text (2004) 22 (4 (81)): 17–34.
Published: 01 December 2004
...Ashley Dawson Duke University Press 2004 Squatters, Space, and Belonging in the Underdeveloped City
City air makes you free. This medieval German maxim referring to the Ashley Dawson
city as a haven from the harsh laws of feudal vassalage might serve as an
ironic...
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Social Text (2004) 22 (4 (81)): 35–46.
Published: 01 December 2004
...Rossana Reguillo Duke University Press 2004 —Translated by Brent Hayes Edwards and Nora Nicolini The Oracle in the City
BELIEFS, PRACTICES, AND SYMBOLIC GEOGRAPHIES
A migratory...
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Social Text (2004) 22 (4 (81)): 65–89.
Published: 01 December 2004
...Rashmi Varma Duke University Press 2004 Provincializing the Global City
FROM BOMBAY TO MUMBAI
Mera joota hai Jaapani O my shoes are Japanese Rashmi Varma...
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Social Text (2005) 23 (3-4 (84-85)): 141–155.
Published: 01 December 2005
...Martin F. Manalansan, IV Duke University Press 2005 Race, Violence, and Neoliberal Spatial Politics in the Global City
The city has become the sign of desire. Martin F.
—Pat Califia, “San Francisco: Revisiting the ‘The City...
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Social Text (2003) 21 (3 (76)): 59–83.
Published: 01 September 2003
...Julian Brash Duke University Press 2003 Alpern, David M., Tony Fuller, Susan Agrest, and Jerry Buckley. 1981 . “Mr. Fixit for Cities.” Newsweek , 4 May, 26 -28. Arrighi, Giovanni. 1994 . The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of our Times . New York:Verso...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 69–89.
Published: 01 March 2022
... and legal regime due to a so-called waste emergency. 1 Everything started from the fact that most of the landfills of the region were exhausted or working under illegal and unsanitary conditions. For this reason, most of them were closed by the judiciary, leaving the metropolitan city of Naples without...
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Published: 01 September 2016
Figure 6 The streets of the modern city are full of discarded books. Photograph courtesy of the author
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in On Stalling and Turning: A Wayward Genealogy for a Binary-Abolitionist Public Toilet Project
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Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 1. Susan Stryker, Transsexual Bridge City (1995). Digitally altered and photocopied images and ink on foam board, 8.5 × 11 in.
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in On Stalling and Turning: A Wayward Genealogy for a Binary-Abolitionist Public Toilet Project
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Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 2. Susan Stryker, Transsexual Bridge City (1995). Digitally altered and photocopied images and ink on foam board, 8.5 × 11 in.
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in On Stalling and Turning: A Wayward Genealogy for a Binary-Abolitionist Public Toilet Project
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Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 3. Susan Stryker, Transsexual Bridge City (1995). Digitally altered and photocopied images and ink on foam board, 8.5 × 11 in.
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Published: 01 September 2020
Figure 1 Map of the Old City of Jerusalem. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_Jerusalem_-_the_old_city_-_EN.png . CC-BY-SA 2.0.
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Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 149–180.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Ashley Dawson; Rashmi Varma; Samuel Perks; Chinki Sinha; Mathew A Varghese; Trevor Ngwane; Graeme Macdonald; Liz Mason-Deese Abstract From Singapore to New York, via New Delhi, Johannesburg, London, Glasgow and Buenos Aires, “Cities in Flux” registers some of the most profound impacts of the COVID...
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