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Social Text (2018) 36 (4 (137)): 81–110.
Published: 01 December 2018
... of the disaster. Mikhail’s writing of the disaster of military human rights intervention depicts it as different from other disasters of the twentieth century, however, in that it destroys a way of life that is made legible only through this destruction. Reading Mikhail’s poetry, one finds this way of life...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (1 (122)): 71–92.
Published: 01 March 2015
... and disaster relief. Bringing together ethnography and the social study of science and technology, this article illuminates uncertainties inhabiting military protocol in a crisscrossed public-private infrastructural universe. Focusing on the crucial predawn hours when rogue tsunami waves push against...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (1 (142)): 131–151.
Published: 01 March 2020
..., mobilize large numbers of people to participate in movements actively rather than solely participating online or through voting, and offer spaces to practice new social relations. The article looks at examples from efforts for migrant justice, police and prison abolition, disaster relief, and other...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (1 (142)): 39–66.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of suggestions regarding radical care emerging from the author’s experience with academic labor organizing and an engagement with anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s model of emergent possibilities amid the disasters of capitalist accumulation. The first to make note of this development was personal...
FIGURES
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Social Text (2024) 42 (2 (159)): 89–98.
Published: 01 June 2024
... decades. This article argues that it is imperative we deepen the debate about strategies to provoke revolutionary ruptures within the fossil‐capitalist world system. We need viable strategies to generalize mutual aid and disaster communism, and these strategies must provide concrete solutions...
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Rooting Out Injustices from the Top: The Multispecies Alliance in Morro da Babilônia, Rio de Janeiro
Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 91–108.
Published: 01 March 2022
... become the only Latin American representative among the ten most affected countries in the world by weather- and climate-related disasters, with an absolute number of fifty-one million affected people between 1995 and 2015; Brazil has the second-highest loss potential by flooding in the world ranking...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 5–10.
Published: 01 March 2018
..., economic, and cultural arrangements of here and now — spatial and temporal relations that have been placed under extraordinary duress by everything from ambient computation to climate disaster — is to reckon with the distributive consequences of the uneven flows of capital, goods, people, and well-being...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (1 (142)): 1–16.
Published: 01 March 2020
... Afterworlds.” 10 When crisis and disaster are the relentlessly pervasive frameworks through which, for some, “redemption is not recognized as immanent or expected as forthcoming,” despondence and disorientation are rational outcomes. 11 Despite such unavoidable circumstances, we find hope in locating...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 153–179.
Published: 01 December 2022
... repositioned; a few suffered blowouts and catastrophic fires. The fates of all of them—and many more—are chronicled at “Oil Rig Disasters,” a matter-of-fact, bare-bones website that documented the fates of rigs lost to blowouts, structural collapse, and storms. 26 Braiding together the narratives about...
FIGURES
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 15–23.
Published: 01 March 2018
... and racialized poor become the shock troops of environmental disaster, as racialized death becomes an integral part of the story: the 2010 and 2008 earthquakes in Haiti and Sichuan, China, as well as Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the Indian Ocean tsunami a year earlier. These human-nature disasters underscore...
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Social Text (2012) 30 (3 (112)): 125–129.
Published: 01 September 2012
... fantasize
about a disaster, the Casio reduced the probability that a real one would
actually happen. The coincidence would be too great. Over the years, this
fetish value has proven far greater than the thing’s value as a calculator.
I’ve...
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Social Text (2007) 25 (4 (93)): 1–16.
Published: 01 December 2007
... emphasis was associated most often
with a group of university faculty who signed an ad in early April — before
any criminal charges were filed — that called the party and its aftermath “a
social disaster” and featured primarily black student comments about the
Social Text 93, Vol. 25, No. 4...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (1 (158)): 81–101.
Published: 01 March 2024
... evictions during the pandemic-related State of Disaster. 3 In the wake of public outcry, Cape Town mayor Dan Plato condemned the police approach while simultaneously defending their right to act against what he persisted in terming “illegal land invasions.” 4 Crucially, Plato deflected outrage over...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (2 (159)): 55–74.
Published: 01 June 2024
..., by wars and environmental disasters, by dispossession. In a world structured by the life-times of the valued and the war against the disposable, another time beckons. Like the other feminist of color theorists of empire, like the one who taught us to gather the fragments left over from the lives wasted...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (4 (97)): 31–50.
Published: 01 December 2008
... Naomi Klein’s
notion of “disaster capitalism.”8 Transnational capital is engaged by poor
African country through IMF (International Monetary Fund) loans to
develop Africa; Bond destroys construction site on pretext of terrorist
threat; transnational capital is engaged by (now even...
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Social Text (2007) 25 (2 (91)): 13–22.
Published: 01 June 2007
.... These wars promoted the suspension
of liberties in the name of liberty, whether by using federal troops for drug
twenty-five years, interdiction or usurping the authority of local school districts. Even natural
disasters that could place populations at risk...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 11–14.
Published: 01 March 2018
... filmic and performative, a disturbing display of the inhuman apocalyptic. In this ruinous and shadowy complex imaginary, the products of capitalism do not neatly melt into another form, as recycled or upcycled debris from the condition of disaster turned into a better, green, or even “sustainable...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 1–5.
Published: 01 December 2021
... in master plans; we don't even think they are possible. Instead we wanted to listen to the immediacy of the moment, for the most guttural of responses may be the most useful. We wanted to dwell in moments of opening and reflection in the midst of disaster, moments to hold on to beyond the continuous turmoil...
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Social Text (2003) 21 (3 (76)): 59–83.
Published: 01 September 2003
... . New York: Random House. ____ 1990 . “The Fall and Rise of New York.” New York Review of Books , 8 November, 40 -44. ____. 2001 . “Fiscal Disaster the City Can't Face Alone.” New York Times , 9 October 2001. ____. 2002 . “The Betrayal of Capitalism.” New York Review of Books , 28 February...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (1 (142)): 17–38.
Published: 01 March 2020
... citizens. As the legal historian Michele Landis Dauber has argued, the architects of the New Deal made their case for the transformative program as a large but nevertheless customary response by the federal government to disaster. The economic catastrophe of the Depression resembled the epidemics, floods...
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