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Breaking Consensus, Transforming Metabolisms: Notes on Direct Action against Fossil Fuels through Urban Political Ecology

Salvatore Paolo De Rosa
Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 135–155.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9495160
Published: 01 March 2022
...Salvatore Paolo De Rosa Abstract This article discusses the politics of direct action against fossil fuels put forward by climate justice movements, focusing in particular on the tactic of the blockade. Drawing on the conceptual toolkit of urban political ecology, the argument moves from a critique...
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Radical Care: Survival Strategies for Uncertain Times

Hi‘ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart, Tamara Kneese
Social Text (2020) 38 (1 (142)): 1–16.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-7971067
Published: 01 March 2020
... into the importance of self-care despite its susceptibility to neoliberal co-optation, the potentialities of self-care may be expanded outward to include other forms that push back against structural disadvantage. Care contains radical promise through a grounding in autonomous direct action and nonhierarchical...
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Lincoln's Black Mourners: Submerged Voices, Everyday Life, and the Question of Storytelling

Martha Hodes
Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 68–76.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3315922
Published: 01 December 2015
... and actions of African Americans. Such sources lack a crucial dimension of experience found in the more voluminous direct personal responses of Lincoln's white mourners: the persistence of everyday life (matters of labor, health, romance, leisure) in the face of shock and grief, an absence that stems from...
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Urban Climate Insurgency: An Introduction

Ashley Dawson, Marco Armiero, Ethemcan Turhan, Roberta Biasillo
Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 1–20.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9495075
Published: 01 March 2022
... of peasants to diversion of forests and grazing lands to industrial uses. In the course of these struggles against displacement, ecosystem people typically deploy exceptional creative forms of direct-action protest that combine both a utilitarian and an expressive dimension. Protesters, that is, both try...
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Activist Technologies: Think Again

Amy Villarejo
Social Text (2004) 22 (3 (80)): 133–150.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-22-3_80-133
Published: 01 September 2004
... that is “queer.” On the one hand, the collective inherits and explicitly acknowl- edges the practice of twinning graphic bravado and direct action from AIDS activism, which bequeaths to Think Again the legacy I discussed above of a politics of representational justice and a focus on the subject. Think Again...
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Out of the Home, into the House: Narratives and Strategies in Domestic Worker Legislative Campaigns

Sujatha Fernandes
Social Text (2016) 34 (3 (128)): 1–25.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3607552
Published: 01 September 2016
... while also caring for her child. She later joined DWU. 29 Other workers in DWU came from countries where they had organized strikes in maquiladoras and export processing zones. Silvia Medina, a Mexican domestic worker and member of DWU, saw direct strike action as feasible for domestic workers today...
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“(Un)hooding” a Rebellion: The December 2008 Events in Athens

Rania Astrinaki
Social Text (2009) 27 (4 (101)): 97–107.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2009-056
Published: 01 December 2009
.... These loose groups deploy a conception of collective performative politics as (direct) “actions” rather than structured movement. Difficult to map out because they are viewed as an elusive “nonspace” by all other political forces...
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Postspatial, Postcolonial: Accessing Palestine in the Digital

Meryem Kamil
Social Text (2020) 38 (3 (144)): 55–82.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-8352247
Published: 01 September 2020
... popularized a political consciousness that rejected direct action and instead looked to techno-utopian solutions to the decade’s havoc. 64 The vocabulary developed by this cultural formation invested in collaboration, characterizing people as bits of data networked in a global village. However, as internet...
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Combat in Hell: CITIES AS THE ACHILLES' HEEL OF U.S. IMPERIAL HEGEMONY

Ashley Dawson
Social Text (2007) 25 (2 (91)): 169–180.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2006-031
Published: 01 June 2007
.... Using new consumer technology such as cell phones as well as tried and true direct- action techniques, members of the GJM scored a victory when they shut down the WTO summit meeting in Seattle by blockading streets through...
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Beyond Resilience: Trans Coalitional Activism as Radical Self-Care

Elijah Adiv Edelman
Social Text (2020) 38 (1 (142)): 109–130.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-7971127
Published: 01 March 2020
... that defies conventional descriptions. Our shared labor, as Barbara noted, was not simply about supportive care but, echoing Hobart and Kneese, was constituted by “autonomous direct action and nonhierarchical collective work.” This article, in its exploration of trans activism, coalitional labor...
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Solidarity Not Charity: Mutual Aid for Mobilization and Survival

Dean Spade
Social Text (2020) 38 (1 (142)): 131–151.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-7971139
Published: 01 March 2020
... includes campaigns to stop the expansion of surveillance, policing, imprisonment, and deportation, to close precincts and prisons, to stop privatization of schools and utilities, to terminate gentrification, pipelines, fracking, mining, and more. This work includes such tactics as pipeline sabotage, direct...
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A Network for Campus Democracy: REFLECTIONS ON NYU AND THE ACADEMIC LABOR MOVEMENT

Kitty Krupat, Laura Tanenbaum
Social Text (2002) 20 (1 (70)): 27–50.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-20-1_70-27
Published: 01 March 2002
... Almeida was among the leaders of a sit-in that would inspire a wave of building occu- pations at other campuses. These and other forms of direct action put United Students against Sweatshops on the activist map. We conclude...
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Legions of Superheroes: Diversity, Multiplicity, and Collective Action against Genocide in the Superhero Comic Book

Ramzi Fawaz
Social Text (2018) 36 (4 (137)): 21–55.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-7145646
Published: 01 December 2018
... by the necessity for direct action, and indeed, the entire team valiantly rallies against the Progenitor. In a series of terrifying panels, Chameleon takes on his former teammate, shapeshifting at light speed in an attempt to strike a deathblow before Jan can react ( fig. 7 ). Chameleon’s ingenious shapeshifting...
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From Waste to Climate: Tackling Climate Change in a Rebel City

Marco Armiero
Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 69–89.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9495117
Published: 01 March 2022
... to express our anti-capitalism in our practices and direct actions against extractivist capitalism. 34 Tellingly, a few lines below, the same document stated that the struggles to save humans from extinction should be connected to the struggles for a decent life. Finally, the activists gathered...
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Biohazard: The Catastrophic Temporality of Green Capitalism

Ashley Dawson
Social Text (2013) 31 (1 (114)): 63–81.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-1958899
Published: 01 March 2013
... and MaddAddam draws on schisms among radical environmental groups and, in more recent years, within the global justice movement. MaddAddam recalls direct action groups such as Earth First! and the Earth Liberation Front, which engaged in monkeywrenching...
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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
... to inspire members, reached out for new recruits, trained potential organizers inside the swanky hotels, and organized high-profile direct actions all over the city. A new union militancy and empowerment process began to flourish...
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The Israel/Palestine Field School: Decoloniality and the Geopolitics of Knowledge

Alex Lubin, Les W. Field, Melanie K. Yazzie, Jakob Schiller
Social Text (2013) 31 (4 (117)): 79–97.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2348995
Published: 01 December 2013
..., a woman named Muna, is actively involved in many of the most contentious direct-­action struggles in the West Bank. She participated in our field school as a guide for well over half of the excursions we took; as a resident of East Jerusalem her identity papers permitted her to travel with us...
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The Continuity of Living for Change: AN INTERVIEW WITH GRACE LEE BOGGS WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY, JULY 1999 AND JULY AND SEPTEMBER 2000

L. Todd Duncan, Kathryne V. Lindberg
Social Text (2001) 19 (2 (67)): 43–73.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-19-2_67-43
Published: 01 June 2001
... needed to be involved in “direct actions in our dying cities” that simultaneously trans- form themselves and their environment. Since 1992 we have also helped to organize the Detroit Agricultural Network, Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice...
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Energy States: Unequal Burdens, Climate Transitions, and Postextractive Futures

Ashley Dawson, Macarena Gómez-Barris
Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 39–67.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9495103
Published: 01 March 2022
... from within the largest city in the imperial core. Transversal land and water defense movements across rural and urban geographies, then, become an important response to these highly capitalized efforts. Coalitional efforts including direct action, grassroots media, and forms of autonomous...
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Introduction: THE “AUTONOMY” OF BLACK RADICALISM

Brent Hayes Edwards
Social Text (2001) 19 (2 (67)): 1–13.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-19-2_67-1
Published: 01 June 2001
... of the ity of such a relationship, without conceiving the literary to be simply propaganda or program—that is, a kind of cauldron for “real” political common ground praxis, socialist struggle, and direct action.14 This approach is now being...
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