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Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 25.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Nao Bustamante © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 Nao Bustamante performs Given Over to Want (2007), Santiago, Chile.
Photo credit: Jorge Aceituno. Courtesy of the artist
Social Text 121 • Vol. 32, No. 4 • Winter 2014...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 83–106.
Published: 01 June 2018
... of colonial slavery given unequivocal expression in the Constitutions ’ directive for English settlers having “absolute power and authority over Negro slaves” and with “just war” as its basis in the Second Treatise (Armitage, “John Locke, Carolina, and the Two Treatises of Government ”). The Carolina...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (2 (95)): 1–12.
Published: 01 June 2008
... and South Asia. In the last few years the heightened interest in urban studies has generally structured arguments around megacities. In contrast we argue that little attention has been given to other urban landscapes, small- and medium-sized towns that are situated on the margins of this discourse. Even...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 231–241.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Brent Hayes Edwards; Alondra Nelson; Tavia Nyong'o Despite the divergence between the accounts given by Stanley Aronowitz and Fredric Jameson of the origins of the name Social Text, it is worth exploring the use of the phrase in the work of Henri Lefebvre. Even if it is ultimately a false cognate...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (3 (96)): 39–58.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Charles Hirschkind The great attention given to death and the afterlife within the popular media of the Islamic movement is a sign for many in the West of a diseased Muslim culture, one preoccupied with violence and destruction, and inexorably epitomized in the figure of the suicide bomber...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (3 (104)): 39–65.
Published: 01 September 2010
...A. Naomi Paik This essay is a cultural analysis of the legal testimony given in Haitian Centers Council v. Sale (HCC III), a federal lawsuit brought against the U.S. state on behalf of nearly 300 HIV-positive Haitian refugees imprisoned in a United States–operated refugee camp at Guantánamo Bay...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (2 (143)): 1–17.
Published: 01 June 2020
... sciences, conceptually it has infused a broad range of theoretical, material, and scientific idioms for describing the malleability of a given body or system. Each of these conceptions of plasticity provides an account of malleability that, seemingly inexhaustible in its disorganizing qualities, has...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (3 (148)): 79–101.
Published: 01 September 2021
... of disability and women-of-color feminism that not only takes dependency as a given but also mines the figure of the welfare mother for its transformative potential. To imagine the welfare mother as a site for reenvisioning dependency, this essay draws on the “ruptural possibilities” of minority literary texts...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (3 (156)): 77–90.
Published: 01 September 2023
... to wider spaces that skirt required legibility. How can we run (off) from socially imposed and oppressive terrain that forecloses possible unruly existences? Yearnings for the vastness of the “not quite” that‐which‐is‐given ripple beneath the surface of the nameable and speak ofthe elsewhere Bey desires...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (1 (126)): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2016
... or, more generally, the affective contours of liberal reason? These questions become especially important given contemporary definitions of reparations in politics and political theory characterizing it as a kind of corrective justice seeking to redress a long history of colonial violence and violation...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (4 (129)): 19–40.
Published: 01 December 2016
.... This militarizing of society that has constitutively marked modern state formation shapes social disciplining of individuals and the regulation of social structures. The article exemplifies how this has given rise to a discourse of martial races, which in turn shades social practices from the industrial...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (1 (118)): 23–43.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Laleh Khalili This essay examines the instrumentalization of emotions and affect—especially of happiness—in evaluating the outcome of counterinsurgencies. Traditionally, metrics and statistics have been utilized as the main means of measuring the achievement of military goals. However, given...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (2 (123)): 83–98.
Published: 01 June 2015
... “disorganizational” potential, given the ways it troubles efforts to affirm logical placement. © 2015 Duke University Press 2015 Chicago sexuality architecture Latino queer The Architectures of
Latino Sexuality
Richard T. Rodríguez
Dedicated to the memory of Rane Arroyo...
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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 (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 63–66.
Published: 01 September 2009
...David L. Eng; Teemu Ruskola How should we go about interpreting, reading, and understanding “China” as a social text, in the face of persistent Orientalism and self-Orientalism, in an age when the ghosts of socialism are still all around us? Given its semicolonial history and its passage through...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 157–164.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., and multispecies abolition democracy. The importance of radical, multi-issue politics and cross-movement solidarities is also given serious attention. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 environmental justice climate justice...
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Social Text (2007) 25 (2 (91)): 39–52.
Published: 01 June 2007
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viewpoint, they toward the end of the uprising — the capture of the fugitive Hussein, the
transfer of “sovereignty,” the holding of elections — has failed to end the
have given an
violence or stabilize the country. And the Iraqi people overwhelmingly...
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Social Text (2017) 35 (1 (130)): 131–136.
Published: 01 March 2017
... their work together in another forum, the forms of abandonments seen during the high-water mark of neoliberalism had given way to the stagnation of the Great Recession. The Bush wars were not won, nor did they end, although the damaged and maimed bodies kept piling up everywhere. And by 2012...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (2 (103)): 127–144.
Published: 01 June 2010
... different empirical circumstances, natural conditions,
racial relations, historical influences acting from outside, etc., and these can only
be understood by analyzing these empirically given conditions.3
There is no better way to say that civilization is never so particular that
it does...
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Social Text (2001) 19 (1 (66)): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2001
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for a political and cultural theorist than it must be for a determined gov-
ernment to be able to identify a trait, event, or undertaking as genuinely
democratic given the lures, pitfalls, and pressures of multilateral forces...
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