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Social Text (2021) 39 (1 (146)): 21–46.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Theresa Stewart-Ambo; K. Wayne Yang Abstract What does land acknowledgment do? Where does it come from? Where is it pointing? Existing literature, especially critiques by Indigenous scholars, unequivocally assert that settler land acknowledgments are problematic in their favoring of rhetoric over...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (1 (146)): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2021
... and instead cultivates study throughout the social field. The print issue begins with “Beyond Land Acknowledgment in Settler Institutions,” in which Teresa Stewart-Ambo and K. Wayne Yang, from their perspective in the “Indigenous undergrowth,” query “what land acknowledgment does, where it comes from...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (3): 73–92.
Published: 01 September 2019
... into the lively twentieth-century debates about Zionism, the emerging European-based project to build a Jewish state in Palestine. 1 The quest to create such a polity began in the late 1800s and was emboldened by the advent of British colonial rule in the “holy land” in 1917. Palestine, however...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (4 (145)): 105–123.
Published: 01 December 2020
... at the American Studies Association Annual Meeting in Toronto with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson titled “Grounded Normativity/Place-Based Solidarity.” In it, Coulthard and Simpson acknowledge the grounded normativity of the land that the conference was held on as providing the relationships, practices...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (4 (117)): 79–97.
Published: 01 December 2013
... borders on the land of Palestine, the field school offered the opportunity to travel within a different geographic imaginary. We visited and witnessed areas of the West Bank and East Jeru- salem currently undergoing ethnic cleansing and colonial transformation, the effects of the 420-­mile-­long...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 1–20.
Published: 01 March 2022
... market-based socio-economic organization.” It is insurgent because it clashes with mainstream climate policies, acknowledging that the climate crisis is not a mistake of the system but is the evidence that the system is deeply rotten and must be changed. Mobilizing farmers and their allies...
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Social Text (2006) 24 (2 (87)): 47–65.
Published: 01 June 2006
... in terms of a “territorial battle”: a war carried out in the name of rights of possession over land. Such “rights,” however, are themselves a matter of memory. Thus, in an essay published a few years after he left Israel 48 Gil Z...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (4 (145)): 1–24.
Published: 01 December 2020
... critique today demands an explicit acknowledgment of how the political referent of queer studies has often presumed an ever-expanding sphere of identifiable subjects laying claim to liberal rights, recognition, normalization, and inclusion. The decriminalization of sodomy, the ability to serve openly...
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Social Text (2012) 30 (4 (113)): 103–123.
Published: 01 December 2012
.... They rarely try to swim around the western barrier, and if they do, they land in a state park where “fishermen” casting into the surf are often armed feds. The only way to go is out there, back of beyond, away from civiliza- tion. And if you go...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 142–147.
Published: 01 December 2015
... . Smallwood Stephanie . 2008 . Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Sparkes Matthew . 2007 . “Acknowledging Responsibility for Space.” Progress in Human Geography 31 , no. 4 : 395 – 406 . Stoler Ann...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (4 (101)): 45–66.
Published: 01 December 2009
... and Kash- mir. The agitators were protesting against the Indian government’s retrac- tion of a grant of a hundred acres of forested land to the trustees of the Amarnath Shrine, an important Hindu pilgrimage center in Jammu and Kashmir — a retraction that was itself triggered by earlier protests...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 123–141.
Published: 01 June 2018
... University Press 2018 Indigeneity settler colonialism dispossession Orphan Black racial capitalism On 6 December 1830, President Andrew Jackson stood before Congress to read an address in which he called for the speedy removal of Indian tribes to lands west of the Mississippi to enable...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 147–151.
Published: 01 December 2015
... . 2005 . How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Bassett Thomas J. 1998 . “Indigenous Mapmaking in Intertropical Africa.” In The History of Cartography, vol. 2, bk. 3, Cartography in the Traditional African, American...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 151–176.
Published: 01 March 2011
... into instruments for dehumanizing others, and the ecstasy that comes from producing corpses, stench, and pain. The pest is no mute subject; it is indefatigable. To call a person or animal a pest is to acknowledge his/its potential or actual resistance or infraction of boundaries one sets. This perception...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (2 (119)): 77–93.
Published: 01 June 2014
.... In the case of Palestinian women, this consideration disavows the specific significance of women’s storytelling and the symbol of the female body as a metaphor for the land of Palestine. It is therefore significant that in Measures of Distance the mother’s...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 83–106.
Published: 01 June 2018
... repertoire of devaluating practices and conditions these cases raise. This essay considers how the lawsuits against the USDA collectively convey the dynamics of the colonial present in relation to predicaments of land, government, and financialization. At stake is not only how forms of colonial governance...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (3 (124)): 1–18.
Published: 01 September 2015
... Amendment. Tribal governments are not bound by the Second Amendment in their sovereign ability to regulate gun ownership on tribal lands.4 Through his misrepresentation, Beck enables his largely white audience’s fantasies of state oppression by suggesting...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 109–134.
Published: 01 March 2022
... aesthetics urban political ecology authoritarianism public parks land use On February 5 – 6, 2020, Istanbul Congress Hall hosted a first of its kind workshop on the future of the city's urban forests, registered trees, public parks, and recreational grounds. Aptly titled Istanbul Green Spaces...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (3 (160)): 1–26.
Published: 01 September 2024
... concept of terra nullius (“no one's land”) was used by European colonizers to ignore Indigenous people and to expropriate the lands they lived on. The conventional use of the term does not apply neatly to Zionist settler colonialism because of the regular, continuous acknowledgment by settlers...
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Social Text (2007) 25 (2 (91)): 169–180.
Published: 01 June 2007
... by Joint Forces Command (JFCOM) during the summer and autumn of 2006.1 Urban Resolve is perhaps the U.S. military’s most frank admission that the megacities of the global South are likely to be the predominant loci of future warfare. Indeed, JFCOM’s description of the exercise acknowledges...