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Journal Article
Social Text (2012) 30 (4 (113)): 55–80.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Vicente L. Rafael Much has been written about the vicissitudes of counterinsurgency as a crucial complement to counterterrorism in the US occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan since 2005. Such a strategy necessarily depends on the mastery of local languages by way of translation. This essay focuses...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (4 (129)): 111–138.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Junaid Rana This essay draws on ethnographic research in a Pakistani neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, to illuminate how the concepts of becoming and infrastructure reveal insights into racialization and the workings of the counterterror state. I discuss the concepts of racial becoming and racial...
Journal Article
Social Text (2004) 22 (3 (80)): 75–104.
Published: 01 September 2004
... in the United States. We consider the tactical
node of counterterrorism discourse as it elaborates a civilizational mis-
sion that is forever sliding between the assured fi xity of a (surveillance)
system and the intolerable dispersion...
Journal Article
Social Text (2005) 23 (2 (83)): 1–19.
Published: 01 June 2005
... informa-
tion management, a combination that created informational blind spots
that prevented inspection of the entire carceral theater of terrorism and
counterterrorism. The problem of compartmentalization became a crucial
predicate for the report’s most widely publicized recommendation...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (2 (143)): 19–47.
Published: 01 June 2020
... for contesting the depoliticization of the body that counterterrorism prisons seek to operationalize. Rectal feeding allows us to glimpse a doctrine of racial control that seeks to transform the purported potential for violence within the terrorist body into an internalized labor to birth new knowledge...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Social Text (2002) 20 (3 (72)): 117–148.
Published: 01 September 2002
... contemporary counterterrorism practices deploy
these technologies, and how do these practices and technologies become
the quotidian framework through which we are obliged to struggle, sur-
vive, and resist? Sexuality is central to the creation of a certain knowledge
of terrorism, specifically that branch...
Journal Article
Social Text (2004) 22 (3 (80)): np.
Published: 01 September 2004
... Univer-
sity. He has published on sympathy and sentiment as modes of power in
colonial discourses (Rule of Sympathy, St. Martins-Palgrave), the prob-
lems and possibilities of monstrosity in counterterrorism (in Social Text
and forthcoming in Cultural Studies), and Hindi commercial cinema...
Journal Article
Social Text (2022) 40 (3 (152)): 37–59.
Published: 01 September 2022
... of President Bush's East African Counterterrorism Initiative (EACTI)—representing nearly 90 percent of the total for the region. 19 The massive influx of funds enabled the Kenyan government to create numerous domestic security bodies including the Anti-terrorism Police Unit, the Joint Terrorism Task Force...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Social Text (2005) 23 (3-4 (84-85)): 121–139.
Published: 01 December 2005
... (civilizing teleologies, ori-
entalisms, xenophobia, militarization, border anxieties) and postmodern-
ist eruptions (suicide bombers, biometric surveillance strategies, emergent
corporealities, counterterrorism gone overboard). With its emphases on
bodies, desires...
Journal Article
Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 123–126.
Published: 01 March 2018
... it is meaningful and valuable for modeling and predicting consumer behavior and state economies, for policing and counterterrorism, and for advancing robotics, AI, and biotechnology. For us, memory is the precondition for a subaltern history, be it in archives, national mythologies, oral and visual recollections...
Journal Article
Social Text (2002) 20 (3 (72)): 189–199.
Published: 01 September 2002
... cut-
ter” bomb as its most proper form. This is a First World affair, since the
Third World continually finds itself unable to, or refuses to, achieve the
humanity of counterterrorism that expresses itself in and as “our”
dropped bombs, however temporary the satisfaction derived from such
action...
Journal Article
Social Text (2022) 40 (3 (152)): 1–15.
Published: 01 September 2022
... , 2011 . Razavi Negar . “ NatSec Feminism: Women Security Experts and the Counterterror State .” Signs 46 , no. 2 ( 2021 ): 361 – 86 . Schrader Stuart . Badges without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing . Oakland : University of California...
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Social Text (2005) 23 (3-4 (84-85)): 101–119.
Published: 01 December 2005
... linked social rights for
federal laws—the Welfare Reform Act, the Illegal Immigration Reform
Act, and the Counterterrorism Act—together worked to politically and the racialized
economically disenfranchise the noncitizen and simultaneously to redi-
rect...
Journal Article
Social Text (2022) 40 (3 (152)): 105–123.
Published: 01 September 2022
... and bolsters the security claims of different political networks and factions within DC. Regardless of their actual backgrounds or views of US empire, meanwhile, these diasporic experts still operate within Washington as the racialized and religious “Other” in the post-9/11 logics of counterterror. 17...
Journal Article
Social Text (2022) 40 (3 (152)): 83–104.
Published: 01 September 2022
... , no. 1 ( 1994 ): 46 – 69 . Mahadevan Prem . “ Counter Terrorism in the Indian Punjab: Assessing the ‘Cat’ System .” Faultlines , no. 18 ( 2007 ): 19 – 54 . Mahadevan Prem . “ The Gill Doctrine: A Model for Twenty-First Century Counterterrorism? ” Faultlines , no. 19 ( 2008...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (4 (117)): 1–24.
Published: 01 December 2013
...) as a model of counterterrorism offer-
ing its expertise in 2011 to forty countries including the United States on
how to defeat the terrorist.
With the killing of LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran and the
annihilation of the organization...
Journal Article
Social Text (2021) 39 (1 (146)): 69–92.
Published: 01 March 2021
... this difference to whitewash other forms of institutional violence: a sprinkling of liberal arts through an education program for some deserving prisoners appears just as the university mints new degree programs in counterterrorism studies and homeland security. In some university spaces, programs that claim...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (4 (145)): 49–76.
Published: 01 December 2020
... programming claimed that states could prevent violence (mainly attributed to Muslim communities) by identifying and publicly countering “extremist narratives.” CVE originated first in United Kingdom and European Union counterterrorism policies in 2005 and later migrated to the Obama administration’s...
Journal Article
Social Text (2012) 30 (4 (113)): 25–53.
Published: 01 December 2012
... in educational estab-
lishments), was consolidated throughout Ben Ali’s rule and especially in
2003 with the implementation of counterterrorism legislation (i.e., law no.
75 in Support for the International Effort to Combat Terrorism and the
Repression of Money Laundering). Like Bourguiba’s, Ben Ali’s...
Journal Article
Social Text (2007) 25 (2 (91)): 103–142.
Published: 01 June 2007
... that it is the basis of an awful mirroring between
terrorism and counterterrorism.84 Here, I want to suggest — no doubt at
great risk — that the abduction of ethics performed in the Schlesinger
report is of a piece with the perversion of Abu...
