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Masculinity in Crisis: Nasreen's Lajja and the Minority Man in Postcolonial South Asia
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Social Text (2011) 29 (3 (108)): 31–49.
Published: 01 September 2011
... of will and capacity to violate, mutilate, and deform the bodies of the vulnerable; in this case, of vulnerable men. That this takes place in ways quite similar to the oppression of women opens up a range of questions about the pathological constitution of gender, desire, and even sensuality and materiality more...
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in-Durable Sociality: Precarious Life in Common and the Temporal Boundaries of the Social
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Social Text (2017) 35 (1 (130)): 79–99.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Zoë H. Wool This article considers the essential and unenduring attachments among grievously war-injured US soldiers remaking their lives at a military hospital. Their sense of being in common makes life bearable, but they do not constitute a community or even a cohort. Their profound attachments...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (1 (142)): 1–16.
Published: 01 March 2020
... collective work. However, because radical care is inseparable from systemic inequality and power structures, it can also be used to coerce subjects into new forms of surveillance and unpaid labor, to make up for institutional neglect, and even to position some groups against others, determining who is worthy...
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Time Bombs: Ghassan Kanafani beyond Life and Death
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Social Text (2025) 43 (2 (163)): 75–95.
Published: 01 June 2025
..., the Irgun, and the Lehi — this essay shows how time bomb terrorism pervaded Palestine during the years of Kanafani's childhood and thereby influenced his fiction. But even more, this essay argues that Kanafani — and for that matter, the movement for Palestinian liberation more broadly — also escaped Zionism...
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People-of-Color-Blindness: Notes on the Afterlife of Slavery
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Social Text (2010) 28 (2 (103)): 31–56.
Published: 01 June 2010
..., the political ontology of Frank B. Wilderson, and the cinematic vision of Haile Gerima against certain signs of prevarication, even gainsaying, regarding the nature of slavery and its afterlife in prominent strains of critical (race) theory, here advanced by noted scholars like Giorgio Agamben and Achille...
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Smoking Habaneras , or A Cuban Struggle with Racial Demons
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Social Text (2010) 28 (3 (104)): 11–37.
Published: 01 September 2010
... sought to naturalize the stark racial categories by which Cuba then lived, even as the images illuminated the realities of—and white anxieties about—interracial sex and its primary cultural and biological product: mestizaje . I link this historical backdrop to “her” return in the present day, after...
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Terror Networks and the Aesthetics of Interconnection
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Social Text (2010) 28 (4 (105)): 65–89.
Published: 01 December 2010
... aesthetics”—an analytic that informs a wide range of contemporary theory, fiction, film, and new media, and that is a necessary corollary to an era in which interconnection has become a dominant architectural mode, a multivalent metaphor, and even a weapon. A reading of several post–9/11 texts, including...
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Interspecies
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Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 3–14.
Published: 01 March 2011
... is a framing paradigm that names the articulation of human/non-human binaries and human/animal/plant taxonomies as interrelated, even as these continue to operate in congealed and differentiated modes. As a scholarly rubric, it aspires to transmit the character of political and social worlds that can no longer...
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Vermin Beings: On Pestiferous Animals and Human Game
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Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 151–176.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga This article examines the descent of human beings into human game (animal hunted for food and sport) and even further into a vermin being (pestiferous being in need of elimination). It goes beyond the realm of similitude, that is, the treatment of certain people like...
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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
... convergence of modern Chinese Nationalist and Communist ethnopolitics. This includes, not least, the thorny problem of just why it should have been that the former barbarians were even preserved in this new form, as ethnic minorities, in the twentieth century—instead of becoming the target of nationalistic...
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Fragment from The Message Is Murder
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Social Text (2016) 34 (3 (128)): 137–152.
Published: 01 September 2016
... are offered as a kind of riposte to Marshall McLuhan’s formulation “The medium is the message” at a moment when it has become even more undeniable that the media (linguistic, visual, computational, financial) are the media of racial capitalism. The Message Is Murder is itself part of an investigation of what...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (2 (115)): 1–17.
Published: 01 June 2013
... used to synthesize or even resolve the conflicting conceptual apparatuses of postmodernism (a term derived from aesthetic, humanistic, and cultural methodological questions) and globalization (a term derived from political economic, social, and cultural methodological questions). By attending...
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Suffering Agency: Imagining Neoliberal Personhood in North America and Britain
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Social Text (2013) 31 (2 (115)): 83–101.
Published: 01 June 2013
... in one’s own best interest with a sense of intense, even desperate compulsion. Through a complex combination of threats to life and abstract modeling, these texts portray both the logical propositions that structure neoliberal personhood and the experience of suffering agency that accompanies life lived...
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This Balaclava Is Too Hot
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Social Text (2013) 31 (3 (116)): 137–145.
Published: 01 September 2013
... position of the group, there has been some resistance to their choice to stage an action within a house of worship (the Cathedral of Christ the Savior)—and even more resistance, it seems, to an implication that there is aesthetic value in their musical performance. This piece explores all...
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Trans* Plasticity and the Ontology of Race and Species
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Social Text (2020) 38 (2 (143)): 49–71.
Published: 01 June 2020
... interrogating the affirmative and even utopian valance of such inquiry. Trans* plasticity describes the capacity of organic matter to transform itself in ways that transgress ontological divides among sex, race, and species. Building on Eva Hayward and Che Gossett’s claim that “the Human/Animal divide...
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What’s Normative Got to Do with It?: Toward Indigenous Queer Relationality
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Social Text (2020) 38 (4 (145)): 105–123.
Published: 01 December 2020
... as an additive to Indigenous feminisms. What if, this article asks, queer indigeneity were centered as an analytic method that refuses normativity even as it imagines, through relationality, a possibility for the materiality of decolonization? Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 grounded...
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Can Black Lives Matter in a Black Country?
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Social Text (2022) 40 (3 (152)): 17–35.
Published: 01 September 2022
... infrastructures. The essay argues that to more complexly understand security from the South, these two notions of diaspora must be held in productive tension. In this way, security is revealed as a racializing project grounded in coloniality, even within majority Black spaces. The essay concludes by illuminating...
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Introduction: Reading for Infrastructure
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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 1–16.
Published: 01 December 2022
... with dispositions that facilitate certain “forms of life,” even as they break and dismantle others. These essays cluster around three key themes that open onto the imbrication of “modern” infrastructures and racial capitalism: slavery, borders, and energy. The introduction also outlines the various conjugations...
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Andolan Imaginaries
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Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 103–119.
Published: 01 December 2021
... contributor speaks of sight lines of possibility and peril, even as they struggle to inhabit a divided and ravaged landscape. For Paromita Vohra and Anjali Arondekar, andolan gardens grow into supply chains that may or may not create food for thought and struggle. Ayesha Kidwai's dream of a multilingual...
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Cities in Flux
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Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 149–180.
Published: 01 December 2021
... of urban signs—flashing images, sounds of silence and emergency vehicles, Whatsapp chatter, billboards, found objects, and media noise—to reflect on experiences that are both deeply personal and embodied as well as reflective of a common urban predicament. Even as the pandemic exacerbated problems...
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