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Social Text (2010) 28 (2 (103)): 57–83.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Burlin Barr This essay offers a close reading of the Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambéty's film Hyenas and looks especially at the way the film addresses issues of development and dependency in postcolonial and contemporary Africa. Released in 1992, Hyenas is an adaptation of the Swiss writer...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (3 (148)): 79–101.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Jina B. Kim Abstract Drawing together feminist- and queer-of-color critique with disability theory, this essay offers a literary-cultural reframing of the welfare queen in light of critical discourses of disability. It does so by taking up the discourse of dependency that casts racialized, low...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (3 (104)): 119–150.
Published: 01 September 2010
... romance in both Hollywood and Latin American films, we gain access to an archive that has recorded the symbolic struggle between the conflictive desires that lie at the roots of all forms of Latin Americanism. Commercial films produced both in Hollywood and in Latin America depend for their existence...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 71–101.
Published: 01 March 2011
..., it is asked, did Sloane's natural history profit from its engagement with African slavery, and upon what techniques did it depend for its authoritative depiction of plant species? Of special interest is the relationship between description and illustration in his published Natural History of Jamaica (1707...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (3 (108)): 31–49.
Published: 01 September 2011
... into reconciling with a brutal world, the minority man reconstitutes himself as a sadomasochistic, pathological subject who enacts violence upon himself and his dependents. © 2011 Duke University Press 2011 Masculinity in Crisis
Nasreen’s Lajja and the Minority Man
in Postcolonial South Asia
Debali...
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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 (2019) 37 (4 (141)): 51–74.
Published: 01 December 2019
... accumulated by securing its convertibility back into money—its “liquidity.” The opposite, financial illiquidity is capital disaccumulation in Marx’s sense. It follows that the acceptability of capital accumulation depends on making financial market illiquidity politically unimaginable. This limitation...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (2 (143)): 1–17.
Published: 01 June 2020
... actually depend on and enlist malleability and formlessness to govern living populations and individuals. By unevenly distributing the capacity of corporeal malleability, plasticity functions as a key logic underpinning the modern notion of racial difference. The issue’s introduction proposes a critical...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (1 (154)): 47–70.
Published: 01 March 2023
... productive and reproductive labor to US empire. Most important, as R.S.V.P. and Zami restore context, they also generate a system of value in opposition to racial capitalism that does not depend on violence against Black women. 48. Day, “Afrofeminism,” 62 . 49. Day, “Afrofeminism,” 69, 75 –76...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 153–179.
Published: 01 December 2022
... infrastructure, which here names not only infrastructure that processes, circulates, or depends on fossil fuels but also infrastructure that is archaic, obsolete, and otherwise tethered to the past, standing as an obstacle to transition. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (1 (154)): 71–97.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., the question of access is the question of how boundaries are drawn, who draws them, and how porous they are depending on the characteristics of the individual's biological data. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 race DNA...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 35–57.
Published: 01 December 2015
... imperial judiciary was based on how magistrates performed during interrogations. These two motivations for keeping secrets depended on one another, as subalterns kept secrets in an effort to thwart the power of judges and judges themselves guarded secrets that might otherwise show that they could...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (2 (119)): 53–75.
Published: 01 June 2014
... diasporic population abroad. Theoretically, the article argues that dramatic expressions of identity depend on encounters and are thus significant in spatial terms. This dimension is often lost in conventional analyses of performance. Ethnographically, a drama perspective lends itself well to creole...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (1 (122)): 27–48.
Published: 01 March 2015
... multiple and contradicting contextual frames. In turn, Gran Torino , which this article reads as a response to the Vang case, illustrates how codes of conduct shift depending on who is in the position to dictate them, and how words that historically signify a racial threat can also erase the very histories...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (2 (123)): 1–27.
Published: 01 June 2015
... of extraction and submitted to actuarial accounting while disappearing from the popular imaginary. The maintenance of white male identity in this matrix ironically depends on a fantasy act of self-amputation embodied especially in the eternal woundedness of Ronald Reagan. © 2015 Duke University Press 2015...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (3 (124)): 1–18.
Published: 01 September 2015
.... Settler colonialism depends on a mode of popular sovereignty that serves primarily as a diffusion of the necropolitical power of the colonizing polity rather than as a check on the tyranny of the state. Through a consideration of an assemblage of unlikely contemporary objects—Glenn Beck's 2013 keynote...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (3 (124)): 19–44.
Published: 01 September 2015
... of racial dominance that have made possible the consolidation of the very units of sociality—humanity, the civilized world, mankind, nation-state, and the international—on which the UN Genocide Convention (and hegemonic genocide discourses more generally) depends for its epistemic and juridical cogency...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (3 (148)): 37–54.
Published: 01 September 2021
... in relation to a spatial configuration on which the logic of the term depends: it requires difference and separation as a precondition of its transversal operations, even as it demonstrates how other arrangements—other floor plans, not just of sex and gender but of space and time and sociality—are possible...
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Social Text (2000) 18 (1 (62)): 81–107.
Published: 01 March 2000
... it as self-defeating as it is
self-legitimating.
Prominent among the self-defeating features are the self-legitimating
practices focused on “welfare dependency.” The focus on welfare depen-
dency achieves its own legitimation in good part by representing...
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Social Text (2000) 18 (1 (62)): 143–151.
Published: 01 March 2000
... intervention and welfare reforms can put an end to women’s Lynne Segal
economic dependency, and thereby free women from men’s control, that
doughty feminist reformer Eleanor Rathbone argued just over eighty years
ago.1 How her old statist rhetoric betrays her. Women’s...
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