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Social Text (2023) 41 (1 (154)): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2023
... to the syncretic knowledge system of Obeah and tinctures of grave dirt, cachexia africana and histories of dirt eating, and the 2019 performance and installation Dirt Eater by Kiyan Williams, the article asks, What are the practices of those who have collectively lived the end of the world and therefore...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (1 (118)): 93–113.
Published: 01 March 2014
... for the pie, along
with the strawberries and apples we found at the last Dumpster. Or bake them
with the yams we found there, with a little brown sugar. In among the soggy
cardboard, only slightly sullied by coffee grounds, are untold post-commodities:
some beyond hope, some ready to eat, all purged...
Journal Article
Social Text (2022) 40 (2 (151)): 93–111.
Published: 01 June 2022
... Black feminist theory critical eating studies Scrolling through the bittersweet archive of my camera roll, I am drawn back here: When the video begins we're each holding up a cooled layer of chocolate cake, freshly flipped from their floured pans. It's someone's birthday and we're making “dirt...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (4 (157)): 83–103.
Published: 01 December 2023
... to eat during the Khmer Rouge, but they also had very little food to eat even before the Khmer Rouge arrived. Both came from working families in small towns outside the country's busy capital. My mother often comments on how the labor coerced during the regime was relatively easier for people from...
Journal Article
Social Text (2001) 19 (3 (68)): 151.
Published: 01 September 2001
...
see that her head was full of small holes. “Millions of bichinhos [little ani-
mals], generated from her own flesh and dirt,” said Jorge, one of the vol-
unteers. “We tried to clean it.” Torben could not bear to take her photo...
Journal Article
Social Text (2001) 19 (3 (68)): 131–149.
Published: 01 September 2001
... was full of small holes. “Millions of bichinhos [little ani-
mals], generated from her own flesh and dirt,” said Jorge, one of the vol-
unteers. “We tried to clean it.” Torben could not bear to take her photo-
graph...
Journal Article
Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 145–164.
Published: 01 June 2018
..., the area is something of a food desert. The streets are quiet on this early morning run; the only sounds are the music in our headphones, the deep vibrations of commercial ships navigating the Mississippi, and the uneven lively sound of our feet hitting broken pavement, tree root, pebble, and dirt...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (1 (154)): 47–70.
Published: 01 March 2023
... eats with unaffected delight, enjoying three servings of mashed potatoes after having lived on canned sardines and soup for weeks. They go for hamburgers at White Castle and listen to the radio on the bank of the Rippowam River. 63 Even Ginger's name resonates as a zingy treat in opposition...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 43–68.
Published: 01 December 2022
... and keep them from resting their heads. Bells were often attached to the tips of the prongs to warn overseers of flight. Figure 4 illustrates a common headpiece that prevented enslaved people from sickening or killing themselves by eating dirt or swallowing quantities of alcohol. Other devices...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 151–176.
Published: 01 March 2011
... experience as
pestilence by others is sometimes a sign of our own pestilence of others;
the pest is both an endangered and endangering species.28 Dirt is not just
an eyesore to our subjective gaze; it is a carrier of pathogens and a self-
propelled pathogen.
The remainder of this article first...
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Social Text (2005) 23 (2 (83)): 1–19.
Published: 01 June 2005
... God and dirt—a symbolic power over their subjects via their
visibility as God’s active agents. 20 The peasants were mere spectators, who
passively watched from the nave, knowing “that God was judging and
watching over them.”21
In the contemporary management structure proposed by the 9/11...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (2 (95)): 35–59.
Published: 01 June 2008
... sand on their wet clothes.
When the men started to drag the women to the sea I was sitting at
the back of the group, and Amila caught my hand and pulled me along
with her as she ran along a dirt path up an incline that ended up in a
deserted temple. There were four of us...
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Social Text (2004) 22 (2 (79)): 117–139.
Published: 01 June 2004
... and the loss of control, as well as dirt and
asylum seeker?
sewage, and hence work by mobilizing fear, or the anxiety of being “over-
According to the whelmed” by the actual or potential proximity of others. These words
have recently been repeated...
Journal Article
Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 27–53.
Published: 01 December 2021
... villages, and there were what look like huts that are ceremonial sacred spaces. They would have these certain smells exactly like home in Jemez. It felt like home with the red dirt, and there was corn everywhere also. We're interconnected and not just because of the ways that we are trying to fight against...
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