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Journal Article
Social Text (2010) 28 (3 (104)): 1–10.
Published: 01 September 2010
... imagining “dislocation,” and argues that work on the Americas has been particularly fertile in developing it. The essays in the volume it presents (the introduction contends) both dramatize fragments of a contemporary world that seems more mobile and fluid than ever, and sink back deeply into place...
Journal Article
Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 73–79.
Published: 01 March 2018
...After Globalism Writing Group This essay reflects on the biopolitics of counting bodies under the conditions imposed by capitalism and state violence. It argues that war, refugee and migrant labor dislocations, and indeterminate zones of sovereignty have rendered bodies disposable and states...
Journal Article
Social Text (2017) 35 (1 (130)): 59–78.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Lisa Stevenson This essay considers what it means to speak into an absence. In particular, the author thinks about a series of recordings from the 1960s in which Inuit in Arctic Canada send messages to their relatives in tuberculosis sanatoria in southern Canada. The dislocation such separation...
Journal Article
Social Text (2003) 21 (2 (75)): 49–74.
Published: 01 June 2003
... in provoking ruptures, dislocations, and fragmentation for
Palestinian lives, and—in a different way—for Middle Eastern and north
African Jews. These ruptures were not only physical (the movement across
borders) but also cultural (a rift...
Journal Article
Social Text (2013) 31 (2 (115)): 69–81.
Published: 01 June 2013
...
individuals from the vacuum and the dislocation that neoliberalism has
produced — and that, as viewed from the 2001 Argentine crisis, as well as
from so many other historical experiences across the globe, neoliberalism
cannot suture...
Journal Article
Social Text (2002) 20 (3 (72)): 31–38.
Published: 01 September 2002
... were forced to confront. This is visible in Alexan-
der’s innovation of the lyric form, which grapples with multiple geogra-
phies and languages of migrancy and confronts the personal and public
facets of dislocation and grief through the workings of memory.
Lopamudra Basu: Tell me about your...
Journal Article
Social Text (2010) 28 (3 (104)): 67–89.
Published: 01 September 2010
... of the
“landscapes” proposed by Arjun Appadurai in order to comprehend the
dislocations between the economy, culture, and politics in a global order,
and the irregular, fluid forms they produce.7 I would add bodyscapes to what
he describes as ethnoscapes...
Journal Article
Social Text (2022) 40 (3 (152)): 1–15.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., “On Plantations,” 949 . 18. I. Grewal and Kaplan, “Transnational Feminist Practices” ; Lorde, Sister/Outsider ; Perera and Razack, At the Limits of Justice . 19. John, Discrepant Dislocations , 4 . 20. See Mountz “Where Asylum Seekers Wait” ; Gonzalez, Securing Paradise...
Journal Article
Social Text (2001) 19 (4 (69)): 1–5.
Published: 01 December 2001
... and dislocation
(alternative Pakistani theater as a counternarrative to the exclusionary
forces of postmodern capitalism and traditionalist nationalism; las chinas
en Panama expressing diasporic fealty through the Western discourse of
beauty pageantry); new forms of consumption (Afro Reggae as a corpo...
Journal Article
Social Text (2023) 41 (2 (155)): 1–18.
Published: 01 June 2023
..., much of the dancing that accompanies her music (and her own choreographed movements) tends toward what might be called black vernacular dance, which Jayna Brown argues “was formed out of the modern conditions of disorientation, dislocation, and alienation. Yet contingent moments of communality were...
FIGURES
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Social Text (2010) 28 (3 (104)): 151–157.
Published: 01 September 2010
... as a key constituent of the subject of
underdevelopment, including the revolutionary subject.4 In the wake of
revolutionary defeats and neoliberal dislocations, Carlos Padrón asks, is
that stymied subject the agent of these deathly displays?5...
Journal Article
Social Text (2008) 26 (3 (96)): 11–37.
Published: 01 September 2008
... of the urban landscape along with
the conventional modes of apprehending it. Let me recall briefly some of
the dramatic dislocations of the war: BBMers (Buginese, Butonese, and
Makassarese migrants) driven out of Ambon during the conflict’s first...
Journal Article
Social Text (2008) 26 (1 (94)): 3–28.
Published: 01 March 2008
... contains at its
very center a dislocating localization that exceeds it and into which every
form of life and every rule can be virtually taken. The camp as dislocating
localization is the hidden matrix of the politics in which we are still living,
and it is this structure...
Journal Article
Social Text (2000) 18 (3 (64)): 87–103.
Published: 01 September 2000
... of colonial dislocation and suf-
fering and will attempt briefly to indicate some of the directions a renewed
discussion of it might take. I am concerned in particular with the themat-
ics of authenticity and recovery of self as they have appeared repeatedly...
Journal Article
Social Text (2010) 28 (3 (104)): 119–150.
Published: 01 September 2010
..., and thematic
exchanges that have made those very films possible. The analysis of this
contrast between, on one hand, film practices, technologies, and markets
that rely on human contact, motility, and dislocation, and on the other
hand, film...
Journal Article
Social Text (2001) 19 (3 (68)): 57–89.
Published: 01 September 2001
...-based organizations participated in
these meetings in order to alter or to blunt certain DHS/police dislocations
of settlements that had already taken effect—and that the DHS was trying
to clean up and legitimate with this very series of meetings...
Journal Article
Social Text (2018) 36 (4 (137)): 21–55.
Published: 01 December 2018
... and are only possible by virtue of visual or linguistic translations, which include temporal and spatial dislocations.” 10 Metaphors for difference offer a range of such visual or linguistic translations that can conceptually make us more proximate to those whose identities we may commonly think...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (4 (109)): 129–150.
Published: 01 December 2011
.... As a result, Japan becomes a wound, a complex,
a mirror stage: the ambiguous status of the Nanjing Massacre becomes
one permanently dislocated piece of the jigsaw puzzle of China’s modern
self-imagination in relation to the world and to humankind. Because of this
dislocation, as well as the Chinese...
Journal Article
Social Text (2002) 20 (4 (73)): 19–28.
Published: 01 December 2002
..., abandoned his
house, disappeared, after sprinkling white powder in his ex-wife’s office.2
Throughout the plethora of anthrax hoaxes from late September to
mid-December, there was a fundamental dislocation between the serious...
Journal Article
Social Text (2004) 22 (4 (81)): 35–46.
Published: 01 December 2004
... to the reconfi guration of public space through the communications
media, but moreover is connected to the dislocation of the space-time
coordinates (as conditions and possibilities of action) that orient social
life. In this regard, it is worth noting the porosity and indefi nition of the
dimensions...
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