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Social Text (2013) 31 (4 (117)): 1–24.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Mangalika de Silva This inquiry concerns the majoritarian right governing Sri Lanka instantiated through state counterinsurgency, extrajudicial violence, and symbiotic ideologies of postwar “reconciliation” and political disaffection. Majoritarian right is a predicative apparatus instating both...
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Social Text (2000) 18 (4 (65)): 55–82.
Published: 01 December 2000
... movements in other countries because of the multireligious situation in India, in which majoritarian community organizations have sway over and pose a threat to minority communities.3 Feminist activists may oppose state...
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Social Text (2003) 21 (2 (75)): 1–6.
Published: 01 June 2003
... bifurcation of British India and Pakistan in 1947 shows, produced only further conflicts between the majority and the minority, and sparked majoritarian and exclusivist nation-building. It is no coincidence that the introduction of the policy...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 103–119.
Published: 01 December 2021
..., bhakti or hero worship would lead to eventual dictatorship. Today we see their fears materializing. In the name of strong leadership, a majoritarian rule has established itself in the country, with no official opposition party in Parliament. Initially, I also joined the movement space for issues...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (2 (151)): 69–92.
Published: 01 June 2022
... or a paralyzing affect around what to do next, to move or to falter, after being taught to hate oneself, either through what has been understood as cultural indoctrination in school or in the majoritarian media narratives on nonwhiteness. For Imelda, then, “Me siento libre” (I feel free) means calling upon...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 105–113.
Published: 01 December 2014
... of “straight time” where “the only futurity promised is that of reproductive majoritarian heterosexuality” and, there- fore, the “future is ‘kid stuff’ ” (22). And, whereas Muñoz tends to imme- diately agree with Edelman’s critique of “the culture of the child” — a culture where hope is only lodged...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 125–134.
Published: 01 December 2014
... pedagogy, and one that facilitates the apprehension and elaboration of an affective rationality — of sensemaking in difference from and indifferent to the majoritarian sphere. Neither identical to nor fully separate from the structures and logics...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (1 (154)): 21–46.
Published: 01 March 2023
... ethnic groups, because the guidelines limit when they can be applied, with particular restrictions on categorizing majoritarian groups, and because they are designed for discovery, not sorting. In their current form, the guidelines for categorization by ethnicity, gender, religion, sexuality...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (3 (128)): 75–102.
Published: 01 September 2016
..., the National Question in Europe concerned the emancipation of subordinated minorities, today the problems of national identity, national culture, national values, and national sovereignty present themselves primarily as majoritarian projects. This presumptive prerogative of the (national/native) majority...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 13–24.
Published: 01 December 2014
... This is because it is only as a collective that minoritarian subjects can mobilize the power to stand up against and refuse the stultifying limits and negation of the dominant culture or normative, majoritarian sphere. This collective process of internalizing a loss gives the loss a social dimension...
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Social Text (2001) 19 (2 (67)): 15–41.
Published: 01 June 2001
...- stood, the nation in which he resided was a majoritarian racial entity and the majoritarian memory of the nation was racist insofar as racialized reproduction was viewed as the motor of national belonging. And thus his insight: reproductive politics are internal...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (3 (152)): 1–15.
Published: 01 September 2022
... in a number of ways: to create internal Others of the nation only to be tenuously included (Ghosh), to establish forms of moral authority that mobilize voting publics and consolidate majoritarian publics (Al-Bulushi; Grewal, Kaur, and Sabherwal) or to reify and racialize external threats through Islamophobia...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (4 (129)): 71–85.
Published: 01 December 2016
... and in Hosanna-Tabor voting to uphold Christian majoritarianism and discharge authority from the state to the church. 35 This view of things did not die with Justice Scalia. Conservative legal scholars such as Michael W. McConnell have celebrated this shift from the focus on individual believers...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 71–85.
Published: 01 December 2014
... in a public sphere that is otherwise bad for us.9 Even as Pedro disidentified with the majoritarian culture within which he mounted his counterpublicity, José invites us to disidentify with Pedro through acts of methetic sharing, participating, and augmentation. He invited us to touch Pedro...
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Social Text (2002) 20 (3 (72)): 101–115.
Published: 01 September 2002
... majoritarian tendencies and commit- ting to meaningful state intervention to correct such imbalances, we have chosen instead to characterize these as isolated incidents perpetrated by a handful of misguided individuals, who can be punished...
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Social Text (2007) 25 (1 (90)): 117–132.
Published: 01 March 2007
... — a precondition of aca- demic freedom — no longer really exists as a matter of practice. We also know, however, that the tenured academic is an endangered species in the United States, and that the de facto erosion of tenure here has been steady and systematic. Consequently, the majoritarian experi...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (3 (152)): 61–82.
Published: 01 September 2022
... of political action. The gathered crowd of men and women angrily protesting thus threaten that figure of the suffering and feminized religious minority citizen and its very terms of inclusion as appeasing the Hindu majoritarian security state. Their protest, foregrounding cumulative humiliation, not simply...
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Social Text (2000) 18 (3 (64)): 67–86.
Published: 01 September 2000
..., the Hindu nationalists today have redefined both—secularism as tolerance and democracy as majoritarianism.12 The Indian case involves a curious mix of science and religion, very different than in the West. The form of pluralist secularism imagined by the founders of India...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (3 (116)): 13–34.
Published: 01 September 2013
... in Language B, but “in language X, which is none other than Language A in the actual pro- cess of becoming Language B.” . . . Continuous variation constitutes the becoming-­minoritarian of everybody, as opposed to the majoritarian Fact of Nobody. Becoming-­minoritarian...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (3): 1–24.
Published: 01 September 2019
..., on the one hand, and the production of majoritarian politics (whether xenophobic or liberal, with its own attendant narcissism), on the other? Some clarifications seem critical to make at this juncture, about method as well as about definitions. I have been shuttling between histories—the Jewish...