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Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 121–147.
Published: 01 December 2021
... of 2020, as states of emergency were declared in both the Philippines and the United States, Filipinx scholars offer memories and reflections of life under martial law in the Philippines and its aftermath and resonances in the present. It's all a blur now. I grew up and “matured” under martial law. I...
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Social Text (2003) 21 (2 (75)): 25–48.
Published: 01 June 2003
...Samera Esmeir Duke University Press 2003 1948
LAW, HISTORY, MEMORY
One of the difficulties in discussing violence against Palestinians during Samera...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (4 (105)): 1–24.
Published: 01 December 2010
... themselves to the actions of a police state and sanctioned a system of apartheid governance within the boundaries of the United States. © 2010 Duke University Press 2010 Hailing the Twelve Million
U.S. Immigration Policy, Deportation,
and the Imaginary of Lawful Violence
Alicia Schmidt Camacho...
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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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Social Text (2008) 26 (1 (94)): 29–58.
Published: 01 March 2008
... sovereignty. Global sovereignty is here taken as the enmeshing of three forces: the neoliberal state and its abdication of fundamental responsibilities to citizens, the hand of the global economy in civil war, and the role of international law. The author suggests that contemporary global sovereignty...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (4 (129)): 71–85.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Ann Pellegrini This essay examines the role of sincerity in several recent US Supreme Court cases on religious freedom in which plaintiffs successfully sought religious exemptions from otherwise applicable state or federal laws: Hosanna-Tabor , Hobby Lobby , and Holt . Under a religious sincerity...
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Published: 01 December 2021
Figure 1. “Tumbang Preso,” collaborative protest performance of RESBAK, BLOCK Marcos, and DAKILA on the thirty-sixth anniversary of the declaration of martial law in the Philippines, September 21, 2018. Courtesy of Isabelle Matutina.
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Social Text (2020) 38 (3 (144)): 27–53.
Published: 01 September 2020
... technologies of rehabilitation and criminalization developed in response. This article takes the debate surrounding the categorization of substance use disorder as a prominent case study in how state and civil society understand and relate to an emergent disability through the deployment of law and technology...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 17–41.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of accumulation accelerated the racialization of capitalism. As denounced by the 1684 Portuguese Law on Tonnage, the holds of the early slave ships created spatial regimes that regularly killed captives through asphyxiation, a unique form of death resulting from the reduction of human life to capital...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 149–180.
Published: 01 December 2021
... Matter movement in London, the Feminist Assembly in Buenos Aires, the C-19 People's Coalition in Johannesburg, and the anti–citizenship law protests and the farmers’ movement in Indian cities. Against the multiplying crises of cities during the time of the pandemic, the different pieces in this pod come...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (2 (99)): 77–103.
Published: 01 June 2009
... sense of out-of-control postwar criminality with the potent memory of past “terrorist subversion” of the war era and before. It was orchestrated by media moguls, powerful politicians, and law-enforcement leaders who opposed legal limits on sentences for juveniles imposed by United Nations conventions...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (4 (105)): 25–44.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Benjamin Reiss In the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings of 2007, a tendency to view mental illness through the lens of “risk” has been exacerbated on college campuses and beyond. Administrators, counseling centers, law enforcement teams, and policy task forces have encouraged widespread efforts...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (2 (107)): 47–66.
Published: 01 June 2011
...), decenters the truth commission into a private space of multiple meanings. These novels challenge the ideal of national disclosure before the law but nonetheless hold out the hope of communicability in a global sphere. © 2011 Duke University Press 2011 Truth Commission Thrillers
Shameem Black...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (2 (107)): 121–127.
Published: 01 June 2011
..., are considered in the light of the figures of turns and returns. Questions of exception, emergency, and suspension of the law are addressed by evocation of the concepts of medical diagnosis and prognosis. The poetics of illness and malaise are explored through the temporal allegory of the eternal recurrence...
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Social Text (2017) 35 (3 (132)): 1–16.
Published: 01 September 2017
... the subject, who becomes a ghostly remainder that haunts the data archive. This maneuver then makes it possible to treat certain individuals, often those marked as racial outsiders, as nonsubjects who can be acted upon outside of the law. This process is visualized by the Tracking Transience website, which...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (1 (114)): 63–81.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Ashley Dawson Contemporary modes of biopolitical manipulation and commodification entail a radically new political economy of nature, a wholesale shift from the laws of biological evolution and development that have subtended much of the temporal imagination of modernity. In place of the notions...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (4 (137)): 81–110.
Published: 01 December 2018
... poetry demonstrates human rights discourse’s investment in establishing an idea of the nonhuman world as well. This discussion of the nonhuman dimension of lyric is developed through Paul de Man and Barbara Johnson’s ideas about lyric and law and is further taken up in relation to Maurice Blanchot’s idea...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (2): 1–28.
Published: 01 June 2019
... Inequity: If Race Is a Technology, Postracialism Is the Genius Bar .” Ethnic and Racial Studies 39 , no. 13 ( 2016 ): 2227 – 34 . Bhandar Brenna . “ Property, Law, and Race: Modes of Abstraction .” UC Irvine Law Review 4 , no. 1 ( 2014 ): 203 – 18 . Bustamante C. D. Vega F. M...
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Social Text (2000) 18 (4 (65)): 55–82.
Published: 01 December 2000
... of laws to replace the
current personal laws, and, if the first, the manner of doing it and the con-
tent of such laws.
This essay is divided broadly into two parts. In the first I set out the
main positions on the UCC, identify the relationships among...
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Social Text (2002) 20 (3 (72)): 9–20.
Published: 01 September 2002
.... Bourgeois violence, or terror, is
fully achieved in many places today inside what Jacques Derrida calls the
force of law.2 And yet the force of law—that sophisticated attempt by a
new class to hold all the terrors of the emerging capitalist world together
by investing them with a participatory...
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