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The Urbanization of Empire: MEGACITIES AND THE LAWS OF CHAOS
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Social Text (2004) 22 (4 (81)): 9–15.
Published: 01 December 2004
...Mike Davis Mike Davis. 2004 The Urbanization of Empire
MEGACITIES AND THE LAWS OF CHAOS
The Old Imperialism Mike Davis
The great...
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Translation, American English, and the National Insecurities of Empire
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Social Text (2009) 27 (4 (101)): 1–23.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Vicente L. Rafael This essay inquires into the relationship between translation and empire in the United States. It argues that such a relationship cannot be understood apart from a critical appreciation of the Americanization, which is to say, translation of English from an imperial...
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The Filipina's Breast: SAVAGERY, DOCILITY, AND THE EROTICS OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE
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Social Text (2006) 24 (2 (87)): 89–110.
Published: 01 June 2006
...Nerissa S. Balce Duke University Press 2006 The Filipina’s Breast
S avagery, Docilit y, and the Erotics of the A meric an Empire
The raiding of women has always been the dream and the obsession...
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Empire
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 112–117.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Neferti X. M. Tadiar Edward Said's 1979 essay in the inaugural issue of Social Text , “Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Victims,” places before us the problem of the present moment of global power—the problem called “empire”—in terms of the specific intellectual/political task Said set...
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Archives of Empire: Seher Shah's Geometric Landscapes and the Spectacle of Force
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Social Text (2011) 29 (3 (108)): 127–138.
Published: 01 September 2011
... such nationalist interpretations by delineating the expansive qualities of empire in the United States and in South Asia. By historicizing the Delhi Durbar as an aesthetic spectacle of empire, this essay highlights how geometric motifs of colonial India are linked to the architectural landscape of post-9/11...
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Decolonizing Common Law: Empire, Nation, and the Insistence of Asking Why
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Social Text (2025) 43 (2 (163)): 17–44.
Published: 01 June 2025
... a sprawling attempt of the British Crown to maintain its power in an ever‐expanding empire. But during the process, common law also gained a powerful life. This article also discusses the theorization of intention by GEM Anscombe to demonstrate how the idea of intention reveals the interrogative nature...
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Settler Modernity, Debt Imperialism, and the Necropolitics of the Promise
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Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 41–61.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Jodi Kim This essay offers an investigation of US settler colonialism and military empire, a conjunction theorized as settler modernity, in the post–World War II era. It argues that settler modernity is an ensemble of relations significantly structured and continually reproduced through manifold...
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Navigating the “Middle East” in Washington: Diasporic Experts and the Power of Multiplicitous Diplomacy
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Social Text (2022) 40 (3 (152)): 105–123.
Published: 01 September 2022
... research within DC, this study contends that such diasporic experts have come to play a specialized role for US empire. Specifically, they serve as “multiplicitous diplomats” who use their connections to the region to navigate and translate the interests of competing political elites in Washington...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (3 (152)): 1–15.
Published: 01 September 2022
... of the category of the “Global South,” instead emphasizing the fluidity between supposedly separate scales (e.g., North/South, intimate/global, etc.). Thinking across time and space allows for consideration of the ways in which the US empire has shaped practices elsewhere, but not in isolation, not without...
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The Animal Other: China's Barbarians and Their Renaming in the Twentieth Century
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Social Text (2011) 29 (4 (109)): 57–79.
Published: 01 December 2011
... of the first Chinese empires. It also explains how, in the 1930s, the Nationalist government—and not the post-1949 Communist regime, as is often mistakenly assumed—first launched a project to rectify the Chinese names of the barbarians and replace the derogatory animal classifiers with the standard human form...
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In the Men’s Room: E. B. Tylor and the Will to Systematize
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Social Text (2014) 32 (3 (120)): 87–107.
Published: 01 September 2014
... to the algorithmic density that swirls around us? To what degree does the epistemic thrust of empire haunt our willful actions in this age of digital self-fashioning? All this willed discernment, calculation, adjustment, and particularizing in the name of and in service to a divinity that shall remain unmarked—where...
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Territory as Analytic: The Dispossession of Lenapehoking and the Subprime Crisis
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Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 19–39.
Published: 01 June 2018
... resolve the problem of erasure. If dispossession is understood as formative of the US empire, might it be necessary to treat it as a component of the economic disparity not only of Indigenous people but also of others so indentured within/to the state? Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018...
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The Art of Dissident Domesticity: Julian Assange, King Prempeh, and Ethnographic Conceptualism in the Prison House
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Social Text (2017) 35 (4): 113–152.
Published: 01 December 2017
... of empire and Assange’s confinement at its center show how the fight over the control of information, and those who circulate it, converges with the struggle for the control of territory, and those who police it, transverse it, and are trapped by it. Copyright © 2017 Duke University Press 2017...
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Necrospeculation: Postemancipation Finance and Black Redress
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Social Text (2019) 37 (2): 29–65.
Published: 01 June 2019
... necrospeculation . The accounting procedures of emancipation in the British empire appropriated financial value not just from living enslaved bodies but also from dead and absent ones. The British state oversaw and directed an intergenerational regime that plundered wealth from enslaved black communities...
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Colonial Object Relations
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Social Text (2016) 34 (1 (126)): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2016
... empire and reason. It exposes how love and hate are affectively policed to create a field of good and bad objects and liberal and indigenous subjects, regulated by a colonial morality that is not the cause but rather the effect of processes of repair. What are the colonial dimensions of object relations...
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History Hesitant
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 85–107.
Published: 01 December 2015
... employed to justify settler occupation, theft of land, imperial trades, war, and overseas empire, making these simultaneous yet differentiated processes that link Africa, Asia, and Europe with the Americas relevant to the study of slavery and freedom. Moreover, the author observes that because slavery...
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Mapping a Slave Revolt: Visualizing Spatial History through the Archives of Slavery
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 134–141.
Published: 01 December 2015
... possibilities. The online project Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760–1761 , which interprets the spatial history of the greatest slave insurrection in the eighteenth-century British Empire, offers a telling example. The map suggests an argument about the strategies of the rebels and the tactics of counterinsurgency...
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Thinking with Trans Now
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Social Text (2020) 38 (4 (145)): 125–147.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Aren Z. Aizura; Marquis Bey; Toby Beauchamp; Treva Ellison; Jules Gill-Peterson; Eliza Steinbock This roundtable considers trans theory’s status as a site of thinking racialization, empire, political economy, and materiality in the current historical, institutional, and political moment. We ask...
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Beyond Land Acknowledgment in Settler Institutions
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Social Text (2021) 39 (1 (146)): 21–46.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of the structures of settler colonialism.” What would it mean for a settler speaker of a land acknowledgment to say, “I am a visitor, and I hope to become a proper guest”? Two empirical examples are presented: the University of California, Los Angeles, where an acknowledgment was crafted in 2018; and the University...
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Remains to Be Seen: Black Feminist Art and US Militarism in Asia
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Social Text (2023) 41 (1 (154)): 47–70.
Published: 01 March 2023
... productive and reproductive labor to US empire. Most important, as R.S.V.P. and Zami restore context, they also generate a system of value in opposition to racial capitalism that does not depend on violence against Black women. The nylon stocking's iconicity as a commodity is inescapable...
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