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Social Text (2022) 40 (3 (152)): 61–82.
Published: 01 September 2022
... of such dissent to reinforce its legitimacy as a liberal democracy. Border residents in eastern India, predominantly Muslim or depressed caste, are minority citizens. By closely reading the terms through which they articulate their claims and humiliations and how they are rendered suspect, subordinated...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (3): 1–24.
Published: 01 September 2019
... is that, while the white majority is solicited along with everyone else to sacrifice for the sake of the economy, that self-sacrifice has the nature of a universal demand made to the universal citizen-subject (however spectral under neoliberalism); for Muslim minorities, however, the self-sacrifice entailed...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (3 (108)): 31–49.
Published: 01 September 2011
..., A Minority Citizen, considers the story of the father, Sudhamoy Dutta, and his literal emascu- lation. This section is further divided into two subsections that together examine how the body of the minority man is subjected...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (3 (152)): 1–15.
Published: 01 September 2022
... constituted as minority citizens in a polity being reshaped along Hindu supremacist lines. In this sense, Kenya (Al-Bulushi), Egypt, and India, as well as Caribbean countries such as Jamaica, represent alternative itineraries to those offered by theorists of a US-led security empire, as security states across...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (4 (109)): 57–79.
Published: 01 December 2011
... Press 57 human classifiers. This is when “the barbarians” were reconfigured as “ethnic minorities” — citizens, humans — and yet they are also still widely believed to be closer to animals and nature...
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Social Text (2012) 30 (3 (112)): 1–26.
Published: 01 September 2012
..., Arabs in Israel; Nimer Sultany, Citizens without Citizenship: Israel and the Palestinian Minority 2000 – 2002 (Haifa: Mada — Arab Center for Applied Social Research, 2003). 14. See Davis, Israel: An Apartheid...
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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 (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 107–122.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Grace Kyungwon Hong This essay deals with representations of a global, mobile Asian capitalist class as a particularly twenty-first-century incarnation of Model Minority discourse to ask what historical and epistemological erasures are required for this particular version of Model Minority...
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Social Text (2007) 25 (1 (90)): 1–15.
Published: 01 March 2007
... and life generally — has been taken up most fully in the United States.”2 The mis- sion of the university is thus to produce citizens who can transcend the dogmas of the nation-state; and yet, ironically, Nussbaum constructs her argument through a narrative of exceptional national education...
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Social Text (2000) 18 (3 (64)): 105–121.
Published: 01 September 2000
... to communities invites a settlement between dominant players such that the choose between majority need not be threatened by the presence of minorities. If the Mus- lim minority is protected by the closure of its borders, that enclosure also similitude...
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Social Text (2000) 18 (4 (65)): 55–82.
Published: 01 December 2000
..., the state and the religion-based community that the UCC debates invoke, as providing the only two alternative resources and identities for the (gendered) Indian citizen. Personal Law The operation...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (4 (117)): 1–24.
Published: 01 December 2013
... a politics of measure and a politics of the discountable. It commences a majority/minority fracture as a constitutive antagonism in which the majority and the minority unfold as two irreconcilable di-visible figures for envisioning the one entity—the majoritarian nation. In Sri Lanka this right fabricated...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (3 (156)): 1–34.
Published: 01 September 2023
... justice and visions of new and better ways of life. Border abolitionism engages in tracing connections between interlocking forms of punishment and racialization that target (migrant/refugee) noncitizens and citizens, respectively, while at the same time challenging the simplistic...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (2 (123)): 99–120.
Published: 01 June 2015
..., The Legalities of Being Between October 2013 and September 2014, the US Border Patrol appre- hended close to seventy thousand unaccompanied minors from Central America trying to cross the border.1 The large number of detained chil- dren created a political crisis this past July, one so pressing that Presi...
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Social Text (2005) 23 (3-4 (84-85)): 251–274.
Published: 01 December 2005
...-approved family making, discovers that she or he is still a suspicious and crimi- nalized citizen. Look at the words of the conservative Christian Family Research Council (FRC), which defends “family, faith, and freedom” as the Judeo-Christian principles...
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Social Text (2005) 23 (2 (83)): 21–34.
Published: 01 June 2005
... of an American citizen as an “enemy combatant” to apply a law of war that was earlier applied only to foreign nationals; on the other hand, the administration approached fi lm and television producers to encourage them to create patriotic...
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Social Text (2003) 21 (4 (77)): 51–67.
Published: 01 December 2003
... by the newly formed Department of Homeland Security, which, in the name of preempting terror, encouraged citizens to spy on their neighbors and colleagues and on strangers in order to report suspicious behavior, no matter how trivial. More recently, in its racialized assumption that evil and terror...
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Social Text (2004) 22 (3 (80)): 75–104.
Published: 01 September 2004
... Exclusion Act of February 1917 (the infamous “Racial Barred Zone”) “disqualify from naturalization as citizens those Hindus, now A Model Minority 79 As part of the barred by that Act, who had lawfully entered the United...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (1 (122)): 27–48.
Published: 01 March 2015
... themselves from menaces into model citizens, from an industrial reserve army into entrepreneurs, from unassimilable aliens into decorated allies, from classed subjects into rights-­bearing individuals.”42 The model minority myth works within a neoliberal...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 73–79.
Published: 01 March 2018
... Press 2018 disposability biopolitics mobility sanctuary When the US Census Bureau director abruptly quits his job, and just as the US minority will soon be the US majority, we might consider how the biopolitics of counting bodies facilitates the structural adjustment of social refuse...