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Social Text (2013) 31 (3 (116)): 13–34.
Published: 01 September 2013
... of, queer identity. Queer minstrels are compellingly slippery subjects because they both ruin and rely upon the criteria of the “fake” and the “real,” and in the process their performances reveal malingering ontological and epistemological commitments from queer counterpublics, drive wedges between...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (4 (97)): 79–95.
Published: 01 December 2008
... on neoliberalism neglects the strong critiques of neoliberalism emerging out of the Central American left in the late eighties and early nineties, as well as the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico beginning in 1994. © 2008 Duke University Press 2008 Activisms and Epistemologies Problems...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 107–122.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Grace Kyungwon Hong This essay deals with representations of a global, mobile Asian capitalist class as a particularly twenty-first-century incarnation of Model Minority discourse to ask what historical and epistemological erasures are required for this particular version of Model Minority...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 251–256.
Published: 01 September 2009
... vigilance, particularly around the implications of university transnationalism for minor epistemologies in the arts and humanities. © 2009 Duke University Press 2009 Racial Politics (in the United States) Roopali Mukherjee In the spring of 1995, Social Text published a symposium on “Race...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (2 (115)): 103–121.
Published: 01 June 2013
... satirical hardboiled detective novel, The Miracle Merchant (2003), and Abderrahmane Sissako’s film Bamako (2006), my article analyzes one example of how African writers transfigure the crime genre to engage the epistemological crisis provoked by neoliberal governance formations. © 2013 Duke University...
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Social Text (2017) 35 (4): 87–112.
Published: 01 December 2017
... anxieties about complicity and success. The Ruffneck show, by contrast, imagined the decimated spaces of the midcentury welfare state to comprise an alternative ground for conceiving the racial origins of progress and thus for evaluating the epistemologies of contemporary liberalism. The article concludes...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (2): 109–131.
Published: 01 June 2019
... this situation. The concept marks a critical reorientation, an epistemological shift in how we think about and understand the category refugee. Redirecting dominant perception of refugee as a temporary legal designation and a condition of social abjection toward refugee as an enduring creative force, refugeetude...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (4 (145)): 25–47.
Published: 01 December 2020
... the epistemological foundation for canonical texts in queer theory that do not appear to be concerned with Marxism, such as those of Butler and Sedgwick; it also serves as the conceptual fulcrum for a number of “queer Marxist” projects that attempt to synthesize these two traditions. This article concludes...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (3 (152)): 17–35.
Published: 01 September 2022
... and extrajudicial killing are not typically seen as part of the global phenomenon of anti-Black racism, it seeks to contribute to a conversation in which raciality is not tethered to physicality, but instead is grounded in both historical-ideological and onto-epistemological phenomena that produce whiteness...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (4 (101)): 45–66.
Published: 01 December 2009
... arguments for the creation of a borderland of uncertainty around the LOC, I claim that this LOC borderland should be regarded as constituting a set of epistemological and material effects distinct from those produced by the official Indo-Pak border, which resulted from the Partition of 1947. I also examine...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (3 (96)): 79–100.
Published: 01 September 2008
... of verification used (and not used) to determine the tape's authenticity, and the relationship between bin Laden's voice and his face in American political discourse. The debates around the tape demonstrated that the relationship between the voice and a speaking subject is not simply a matter for epistemology...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (1 (102)): 13–34.
Published: 01 March 2010
... of time and space, the player-piano embodying the epistemological shift marked by machines storing and executing growing amounts of human knowledge, from automated industrial manufacturing to computers. The final section of the article considers the malign and utopian symbolism of the player-piano...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (4 (129)): 71–85.
Published: 01 December 2016
... of epistemological and moral assumptions about personhood, the nature of belief, the substance of religion as somehow equating to belief (a highly contestable assertion), and what it is reasonable for a sincerely religious person to believe and do. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, Leerom Medovoi, and José...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (2 (147)): 1–23.
Published: 01 June 2021
... epistemologies. These users register a deep suspicion of the evidentiary and refuse the spectacular of racial violence's visual form, instead highlighting its ubiquitous and quotidian nature by asserting themselves into their own scenes of visual failure and becoming witnesses to their own imagined deaths...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (1 (154)): 21–46.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., these biographies cannot be categorized as white because whiteness is unverifiable in Wikipedia's white epistemology. In the absence of a precise analysis of the gaps in its editors or its articles, I present a quantitative and qualitative analysis of these structures that prevent such an analysis. I examine policy...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (4 (157)): 37–60.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Hershini Bhana Young Abstract This essay develops the idea of salvage as a material practice around ships’ cargo and as an archival epistemology. Using a legal court case concerning 43 million dollars worth of silver bars salvaged from the wreck of the SS Tilawa , a website constructed by the son...
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Social Text (2005) 23 (3-4 (84-85)): 1–17.
Published: 01 December 2005
..., historical foci, and disciplinary accounts. Broadly, these scholars examine the limits of queer epistemology, the denaturalizing potentials of queer diasporas, and the emergent assumptions of what could be called queer liberalism. Collectively, they rethink queer critique...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 125–134.
Published: 01 December 2014
... educa- tion maintain its long tradition of contributing to the reproduction of social inequality), preserves the (racist) epistemologies of (neo)liberalism through a reproductive logic that is utterly unqueer. (I don’t have room here fully to unpack these claims; they are, I submit, nonetheless...
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Social Text (2006) 24 (2 (87)): 11–20.
Published: 01 June 2006
... historical-geographical and the second allegorical-epistemological, and will use them as the double frame- work for the brief comments that follow. The first pertains to the fact that both orientalism and the Orient it produced were...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (1 (94)): 95–114.
Published: 01 March 2008
... and the human organisms who exist within it by affirming that individuals constitute the central, if not exclusive, locus of concern. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, when experimental physiologist Claude Bernard first provided the epistemological justification for using data...