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Social Text (2015) 33 (1 (122)): 71–92.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Stephanie C. Kane; Eden Medina; Daniel M. Michler Retrospective narrations by maritime authorities trace decision making in the compressed time frame between earthquake and tsunami, when geological events literally rupture the skein of communication devices and flows that animate social life...
Journal Article
Social Text (2010) 28 (3 (104)): 1–10.
Published: 01 September 2010
..., translation, and sovereignty, falls
from view, sharply limiting the futures we can imagine. The recent dev-
astations in Haiti hammer this point home once again, as pathos over the
“natural” disaster of the earthquake is paired with defamatory blaming...
Journal Article
Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 109–134.
Published: 01 March 2022
... and regulations, including cadastral services, liberalization of land-use regulations, heavy reliance on eminent domain processes, deindustrialization, public-private partnerships, and land reclamation. In Istanbul the pending earthquake threat was used as a pretext for urban renewal schemes, while...
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Social Text (2004) 22 (4 (81)): 9–15.
Published: 01 December 2004
..., defy any linear correlation between pov-
erty and informality, on the one hand, and collapsed civil society, on the
other. In the face of megadisasters—earthquakes and pipeline explosions,
for example—the colonias have demonstrated...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 135–155.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of the issue within the broader geographies and consequences of extraction: Fossil gas has major negative impacts where the gas is extracted and infrastructure is built: water poisoning, earthquakes, landslides, repression of human rights, destruction of land areas and agricultural areas. What is happening...
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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 (2020) 38 (1 (142)): 131–151.
Published: 01 March 2020
... aid projects providing relief to survivors of storms, floods, earthquakes, and fires, as well as those developed to support people living through the crises caused by poverty, criminalization, housing costs, endemic gender violence, and other ordinary conditions, produce new systems that can prevent...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (3 (96)): 59–78.
Published: 01 September 2008
... to the numi-
nous — the mysterium tremendum, or fascinosum — has a strong link to a
famous tectonic event: the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 described
to us by European philosophers of the Enlightenment such as Voltaire,
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Immanuel Kant. As with the interpretations...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (4 (117)): 25–47.
Published: 01 December 2013
... as the passport-issuing office of the Department of
Foreign Affairs. Then, when an earthquake struck Manila in 1990, the
Film Center was believed to suffer structural damage, deemed unsafe, and
finally abandoned. For an entire decade, it was left unoccupied. It grew
famous, not as a part...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (2 (155)): 1–18.
Published: 01 June 2023
... living, Mbembe asks us to consider not only beings who need oxygen to breathe (and perhaps sweat) but also the balance of ecosystems. Higher amounts of carbon dioxide trap heat closer to Earth's surface and exacerbate extreme weather, including hotter temperatures and more hurricanes, earthquakes...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 7–26.
Published: 01 December 2021
... of such sites, ready to launch at a moment's notice against the Soviet Union. We have long been on the edge of disaster. We are differentially on its edge. Such a place, situated on the San Andreas earthquake zone, brought forward the vulnerabilities of impending doom. The land had memory: it bore...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (2 (103)): 127–144.
Published: 01 June 2010
...-
sche: “As cities collapse and grow desolate when there is an earthquake
and man erects his house on volcanic land only in fear and trembling and
only briefly, so life itself caves in and grows weak and fearful when the
concept-quake caused by science...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (1 (102)): 87–105.
Published: 01 March 2010
... such
recordings represented major news items: the charge of the Rough Riders
up San Juan Hill, for instance, or the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.
Others represented aurally dynamic everyday events — auctions were a
particularly popular subject...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (4 (109)): 129–150.
Published: 01 December 2011
... as their visible partici-
pation in the relief efforts during the Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan,
all occurring right before the start of the Games, marked an important
transition leading up to this anticipated ascent...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (1 (138)): 1–26.
Published: 01 March 2019
.... Much like Kant’s overcompensation for the geologic nihilism of the Lisbon earthquake (1755) in his formation of the sublime (and concomitant racial/racist theories), the material exclusions of geologic agency are as much a product of psychic terror as they are of the geotrauma of earth events...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (4 (101)): 45–66.
Published: 01 December 2009
... of the NWFP, north of Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital. Dotted by
place-names such as Abbottabad, Mansehra, Balakot, and Kaghan — newly
familiar because of the 2005 earthquake, which painfully confirmed the
importance of road links here — this region abuts...
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Social Text (2007) 25 (1 (90)): 17–39.
Published: 01 March 2007
... San Francisco as one of the
counties from which he’d collected probate data. Since the 1906 earthquake had
destroyed the county’s archives, this assertion was deemed a fabrication. Actually,
the probate records at issue...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (3 (128)): 1–25.
Published: 01 September 2016
... were eager to push the weak bill forward to have a success they could parade for their constituencies. Two of the coalition groups that raised concerns were Damayan and HWHR. HWHR was occupied with working in Haiti after the January 2010 earthquake, so its attention was somewhat diverted from...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (3 (124)): 117–145.
Published: 01 September 2015
..., Georges Bataille, and Michel Foucault. In the last
decade of his life, Martin was immersed in theorizing volatility and the
quandary of disasters within monetary markets and built environments.
Earthquakes, tsunamis, and financial meltdowns share structuring...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (4 (137)): 81–110.
Published: 01 December 2018
... as an “enabler of human rights,” disaster is defined in the following way: “A disaster is not always or necessarily the inevitable consequence of the manifestation of a natural phenomenon such as an earthquake, a typhoon or another type of meteorological or geological event. In areas where there are no human...
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