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Social Text (2022) 40 (3 (152)): 105–123.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Negar Razavi Abstract In recent years, a growing number of experts claiming personal and familial ties to the Middle East have joined elite foreign policy think tanks in Washington, DC, in an effort to shape US policy debates on this complex region. Based on more than two years of ethnographic...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (3 (152)): 37–59.
Published: 01 September 2022
... . Highlighting the role played by the Kenyan state in the ongoing war against the Somali militant group al-Shabaab, it takes seriously the African subjects who co-constitute geographies of war making in East Africa today, from the political and business elite who normalize militarized masculinities...
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Social Text (2001) 19 (3 (68)): 9–33.
Published: 01 September 2001
... Press. Borneman, John. 1991 . After the wall: East meets west in the new Berlin . Boston: Basic Books. ____. 1992 . Belonging in the two Berlins:Kin, state, nation . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Böthig, Peter, and Klaus Michael, eds. 1993 . Machtspiele: Literatur und...
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Social Text (2003) 21 (2 (75)): 125–140.
Published: 01 June 2003
...Joel Beinin Duke University Press 2003 The Israelization of American Middle East Policy Discourse It is dimly possible to imagine that the September 11, 2001, attacks on the Joel Beinin World Trade Center and the Pentagon could have provided an occasion to begin...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (1 (122)): 1–25.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Rudolf Mrázek This essay explores the acoustic regime of two twentieth-century internment camps: Boven Digoel (1927–43), in the Dutch East Indies, and Terezín or Theresienstadt (1942–45), in the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, today the Czech Republic. Based on archival materials...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (4 (101)): 25–44.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Eng-Beng Lim This essay considers the phenomenon of the global university, particularly the trend of setting up satellite campuses, or “outposts,” in Asia and the Middle East. It tracks the global university as part of the Western university's international knowledge system and its connection...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (2 (95)): 1–12.
Published: 01 June 2008
...Kamran Asdar Ali; Martina Rieker Drawing on the larger project of the Shehr Network on Comparative Urban Landscapes, the articles in this issue seek to revisit conceptually and theoretically the question of marginality in the production of contemporary urban cartographies in the Middle East...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (2 (107)): 67–97.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Helga Tawil-Souri In Palestine/Israel, different colored identification cards are mandated by the Israeli state apparatus to Palestinians in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem, and those who are citizens of Israel. The article traces the development of the bureaucracy of the Palestinian...
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Social Text (2012) 30 (3 (112)): 27–47.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Olivia C. Harrison The ongoing uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East require that we reassess the national and regional paradigms that still prevail in Maghreb and Mashreq studies. Taking the double anniversaries of Algerian independence and of the Arab uprisings as my starting point, I...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (3 (144)): 55–82.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Meryem Kamil This article centers two new media projects that imagine Palestinian decolonization, given the occupation of Palestinian land: news site Al Jazeera English’s 360-degree video tour of al-Aqsa compound in East Jerusalem and Palestinian grassroots organization Udna’s three-dimensional...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (3 (160)): 53–71.
Published: 01 September 2024
...: the figure of the massified Oriental. The massified Oriental haunts Asianness, and retains East and Southwest Asia as its primary cultural referents, but the deterritorialization of Orientalism as an epistemic apparatus locates Orientalism in the realm of affect rather than geography. Thus, this paper...
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Social Text (2007) 25 (1 (90)): 41–62.
Published: 01 March 2007
... sought to regulate the work of postcolonialist Middle East studies scholars. Thus Daniel Pipes’s Web site, Campus Watch, published dossiers of eight prominent professors of Middle East studies who demonstrated “bias” in their teaching and promoted anti-Americanism. The targeted eight...
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Social Text (2006) 24 (1 (86)): 55–79.
Published: 01 March 2006
... a liminal space, and West Asia is absent. Here, I deliberately deploy the term West Asia, rather than the more commonly used Middle East, to emphasize European conceptions of the historical 56 Sridevi Menon and imaginative...
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Social Text (2003) 21 (2 (75)): np.
Published: 01 June 2003
...-Making in Divided Societies: The Israel–South Africa Analogy (Human Sciences Research Council). Joel Beinin is professor of Middle East history at Stanford University, where his research has focused on the social and cultural history of the modern Middle East. He has written and lectured...
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Social Text (2006) 24 (2 (87)): 1–9.
Published: 01 June 2006
... post-structuralist methodologies are more widely practiced than in Middle Eastern studies departments. At the time of Orientalism’s publication, the critical scholars of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) — many of whom...
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Social Text (2003) 21 (2 (75)): 1–6.
Published: 01 June 2003
... against terror, of democracy against hatred, of the West against Islam. Under the banner of the war on terror, the United States then announced its plans for a war against Iraq as the cornerstone of an unapologetic pro- ject to remake the political order of the Middle East. Yet the question...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (3 (108)): 31–49.
Published: 01 September 2011
... erosion of this resolve. Although his friends and relatives had been emigrating from East Pakistan/Bangladesh since the partition in 1947, and though he had suffered professional discrimination on religious grounds and was driven out of his ancestral home, Sudhamoy, a participant in the language...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (3): 73–92.
Published: 01 September 2019
... to Israel’s conquest of East Jerusalem in June 1967. Below I analyze the character and implications of such representations since that fateful year. First, however, it is vital to turn attention to quotidian appropriations at the sites of commandeered Palestinian structures such as the Said family home...
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Social Text (2007) 25 (1 (90)): 63–84.
Published: 01 March 2007
...-thinking students, dominated the media and came to define the terms of public debate over higher education in state and national legislative forums. The concept of academic freedom became a keyword and battleground in the controversy over Columbia’s Middle East studies program that unfolded...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 85–107.
Published: 01 December 2015
..., the transatlantic African slave trade, and the East Indies and China trades in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, on the other hand, perhaps the more unusual observation I offer is that many of the liberal concepts that were used to justify...