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Social Text (2021) 39 (1 (146)): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of as always entangled. The editors elaborate this ecological view by drawing on theories of coloniality, especially the work of Sylvia Wynter (and her human/Man distinction) and Stefano Harney and Fred Moten (in The Undercommons ). In this framing, the university appears as a specific, but not isolated, part...
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Edward Said’s Home, Martin Buber’s Mailbox: The “Terrible Silences” of Israeli Colonial Jerusalem
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Social Text (2019) 37 (3): 73–92.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Thomas Abowd This article examines the primary means by which Israeli settler colonialism has appropriated and reconfigured Jerusalem since 1948—discursively no less than physically. It analyzes how the Jewish state, building on the colonial suppositions and discourses of the pre-1948 Zionist...
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Infrastructure in Black: An Ante-Commons in Colonial New England
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Social Text (2023) 41 (4 (157)): 1–36.
Published: 01 December 2023
...David Kazanjian Abstract This essay interprets a 1714 petition by five Black Bostonians as a challenge to the role infrastructure played in racial capitalism's development in colonial New England. It theorizes this petition as an “ante‐commons,” or a collective action at once before, alongside...
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Writing into a Void: REPRESENTING SLAVERY AND FREEDOM IN THE NARRATIVE OF COLONIAL SPANISH AMERICA
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Social Text (2007) 25 (4 (93)): 67–90.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Herman L. Bennett © 2007 Duke University Press 2007 Writing into a Void
Representing Sl avery and Freedom in the N arr ative
of Colonial...
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Seeing Xica and the Melodramatic Unveiling of Colonial Desire
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Social Text (2003) 21 (3 (76)): 109–134.
Published: 01 September 2003
... of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things . Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. TeleRevista. 2000 . “Xica, su final es inesperado.” May, 34 -36. Vanity Fair. 2000 . “Channel This,” August, 182 . Wilde, Oscar. 1964 . De Profundis . New York: Avon. Williams, Raymond. 1977 . Marxism...
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Inhabiting the Impasse: Racial/Racial-Colonial Power, Genocide Poetics, and the Logic of Evisceration
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Social Text (2015) 33 (3 (124)): 19–44.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Dylan Rodríguez This article examines the concept of genocide as an incomplete accounting of gendered racial and racial-colonial violence. The mid-twentieth-century enunciation of the genocide concept, in and beyond the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide...
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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
... of these cases it is necessary to go beyond the juridical framework of discrimination, which forecloses consideration of the constitutive force of state racisms, ongoing settler colonial dispossession, and heteronormativity, and to consider a more expansive frame that brings together and makes legible the shared...
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Colonial Object Relations
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Social Text (2016) 34 (1 (126)): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2016
...David L. Eng This article investigates how colonial modernity frames not only the material development but also the psychic emergence of liberal subjectivity by reexamining Melanie Klein's notions of reparation, a key concept in both psychoanalysis and political theory. The article reconsiders...
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By Design: Remapping the Colonial Archive
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 142–147.
Published: 01 December 2015
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Remapping the Colonial Archive
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon
There’s scarsely a day passes but some of the Negroes are Executed. We
had Two that were hung up in Chains alive & starv’d to Death, they hung
a great while one...
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Civil Rights, Commerce, and US Colonialism
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Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 63–82.
Published: 01 June 2018
... are calling the “economies of dispossession.” The term economies of dispossession refers to capitalist and colonialist structures in dominance and the organizing logics that naturalize their attending violences. As such, economies of dispossession make evident how (settler) colonialism and racial capitalism...
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Radio Silence: Black Technologies and the Sound of Britain's Dying Colonialism
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Social Text (2025) 43 (1 (162)): 49–69.
Published: 01 March 2025
...Tao Leigh Goffe Abstract Despite British colonial authorities’ intentions, Black sound technologies and technologists flourished during World War II and the years following it. News radio was a colonial project with a civilizing mission that partly functioned through the British Broadcasting...
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To Be Announced: Radical Praxis or Knowing (at) the Limits of Justice
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Social Text (2013) 31 (1 (114)): 43–62.
Published: 01 March 2013
... violence, dismissing value and entertaining excess, stays with violence? What account of racial subjugation and liberation would emerge from it? For in Fanon’s description of the colonial space as a product of colonial (juridicoeconomic) violence, the distinction between the Native’s and the Settler’s...
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“Variations under Domestication”: Indigeneity and the Subject of Dispossession
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Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 123–141.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Jodi A. Byrd This essay draws upon critical ethnic studies, Indigenous critical theory, and settler colonial studies to consider how biopolitics and biocapital have converged in North America through the racial regimes inaugurated by settler colonialism. It does so by close reading the popular...
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Vermin Beings: On Pestiferous Animals and Human Game
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Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 151–176.
Published: 01 March 2011
... of “the other” (in the colonial case “the natives”) as “vermin being” turned colonialism, from the onset, into an exercise in pestilence and pest control work. The article examines African resistance against colonial settler rule between 1890 and 1980 as pestiferous mobility and the state response as pesticide...
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Archives of Empire: Seher Shah's Geometric Landscapes and the Spectacle of Force
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Social Text (2011) 29 (3 (108)): 127–138.
Published: 01 September 2011
... such nationalist interpretations by delineating the expansive qualities of empire in the United States and in South Asia. By historicizing the Delhi Durbar as an aesthetic spectacle of empire, this essay highlights how geometric motifs of colonial India are linked to the architectural landscape of post-9/11...
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The Uses of Happiness in Counterinsurgencies
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Social Text (2014) 32 (1 (118)): 23–43.
Published: 01 March 2014
... and military actors who seek to promote specific forms of knowledge—statistical versus qualitative—about war. This essay points to the sedimentation of colonial practices around affection and disaffection, and of colonial intimacy in these counterinsurgency practices. By drawing on the writings and memoirs...
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The Settler Unchained: Constituent Power and Settler Violence
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Social Text (2015) 33 (3 (124)): 1–18.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Alex Trimble Young This article argues that the phrase “monopoly of violence,” which circulates in so many contemporary academic critiques of the liberal state, is not adequate to describe the nature of violence deployed by settler colonial societies against indigenous and racialized bodies...
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Geologic Realism: On the Beach of Geologic Time
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Social Text (2019) 37 (1 (138)): 1–26.
Published: 01 March 2019
... events and beings in time. Geologic realism is argued as an analytic to understand the entwinement and emergence of (a) normative modes of approaching matter forged through the histories and temporalities of colonial power in material and metaphysical orders; (b) the realism of quotidian experience...
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Secret and Spectral: Torture and Secrecy in the Archives of Slave Conspiracies
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 35–57.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Greg L. Childs This article explores the problem of torture and secrecy in the archives of conspiracies, seditions, and black resistance movements in the colonial Americas of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Using the example of the Tailors' Conspiracy, a seditious movement...
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Beyond Land Acknowledgment in Settler Institutions
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Social Text (2021) 39 (1 (146)): 21–46.
Published: 01 March 2021
... action. However, formal written statements may challenge institutions to recognize their complicity in settler colonialism and their institutional responsibilities to tribal sovereignty. Building on these critiques, particularly the writings of Métis cultural producer Chelsea Vowel, this article offers...
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