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Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 109–134.
Published: 01 March 2022
... specifically focuses on the latest iteration of the urban greenery frenzy: the Gardens of the Nation. By studying how this nationwide urban greenery drive has been designed, promoted, discussed, inaugurated, and used, this article provides an account for the critical role green aesthetics play in conjuring up...
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Published: 01 December 2021
Figure 3. Chickasaw Nation PPE package. Photograph by Jodi Byrd.
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Published: 01 March 2022
Figure 4. Sunday morning at Baruthane Millet Bahçesi (Garden of the Nation), bordering recently completed super-lux waterfront high rises, one of which is occupied by a Hyatt Regency Hotel. Photograph by Sinan Erensü.
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Nation Validation: MODERN PALESTINIAN LITERATURE AND THE POLITICS OF APPEASEMENT
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Social Text (2003) 21 (2 (75)): 7–24.
Published: 01 June 2003
... nation-state: Palestine and the critique of nationalism. New Formations 45 (winter): 54 -71. Hout, Shafik al-. 1993 . Interview. Middle East Report 184 (September-October): 19 . Jayyusi, Salma, ed. 1992 . Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature . New York: Columbia University Press...
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Figure 1 Candice Lin, Birth of a Nation , 2008. Watercolor on paper, 44 × 54 in. Courtesy of the artist and Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles
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Sporting Faith: ISLAM, SOCCER, AND THE FRENCH NATION-STATE
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Social Text (2000) 18 (4 (65)): 25–53.
Published: 01 December 2000
...Paul A. Silverstein ST 65.02 Silverstein 11/8/00 2:24 PM Page 25
Sporting Faith
ISLAM, SOCCER, AND THE FRENCH NATION-STATE
On 18 September 1989, a week...
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Trial by Fire: GENDER, POWER, AND CITIZENSHIP IN NARRATIVES OF THE NATION
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Social Text (2001) 19 (4 (69)): 29–51.
Published: 01 December 2001
.... 1991 . Imagined communities:Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism . London:Verso. Balibar, E. 2001. Citizenship without a preexisting community. Lecture delivered at Bard College, 19 March 2001. www.bard.edu/hrp/events2000/balibar-transcript.htm . Basu, T., et al. 1993 . Khaki...
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Domestic Affairs: National Security and the Politics of Protest at India's “Friendly” Borderlands
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Social Text (2022) 40 (3 (152)): 61–82.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Sahana Ghosh Abstract How do protests and security regimes engage each other on the question of difference? This question frames this essay's ethnographic portrayal of the expression of dissent and political claims in a borderland site of national security and the Indian security state's management...
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“Anxious Desires”: Hyperbolic Beautification and Affective Infrastructure under Mexico's National Border Program, 1961–1971
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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 69–95.
Published: 01 December 2022
... targeting nine cities at the Mexico‐US border, led by former Ciudad Juárez mayor Antonio Bermúdez and with architecture supervised by Mexico City–based modernist Mario Pani. However, as this article argues, Pronaf sought to better integrate the borderlands to the national market and political structure...
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“City of Whores”: Nationalism, Development, and Global Garment Workers in Sri Lanka
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Social Text (2008) 26 (2 (95)): 35–59.
Published: 01 June 2008
..., especially capitalist hegemony. Ultimately, these women's experiences indicate how the transnational flows of ideas and resources shape responses to marginalization in ways that discourage transformational politics. Duke University Press 2008 “City of Whores”
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Gendered Security/National Security: Political Branding and Population Racism
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Social Text (2010) 28 (4 (105)): 45–63.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Patricia Ticineto Clough; Craig Willse Drawing from theories of affect economies as well as discussion of biopolitical distributions of life and death, this essay explores the public mediation of gendered security and national security in terms of a political branding that circulates notions...
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Translation, American English, and the National Insecurities of Empire
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Social Text (2009) 27 (4 (101)): 1–23.
Published: 01 December 2009
... into a national language that required the reorganization of the nation's linguistic diversity into a hierarchy of languages resulting in the emergence of a monolingual hegemony. However, this American notion of translation as monolingual assimilation was always contested, and we can see its limits in the context...
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Civil Society: ENLIGHTENMENT IDEAL AND DEMOTIC NATIONALISM
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Social Text (2000) 18 (4 (65)): 109–116.
Published: 01 December 2000
...Lindsay Paterson ST 65.05 Paterson 11/8/00 2:26 PM Page 109
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ENLIGHTENMENT IDEAL AND DEMOTIC NATIONALISM
Andrew Ross’s article gives...
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National Allegory
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 164–168.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Brian Larkin This paper examines the debate between Fredric Jameson and Aijaz Ahmad in articles that appeared in Social Text 15 (1986) and Social Text 17 (1987) over the status of national allegory in third-world literature. It argues that national allegory can be produced not from authorial...
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James Roberts’s valuation return. National Archives of the United Kingdom, ...
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Figure 1 James Roberts’s valuation return. National Archives of the United Kingdom, PRO 10/15.
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TV Urgente : Urban Exclusion, Civil Society, and the Politics of Television in Venezuela
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Social Text (2009) 27 (2 (99)): 25–53.
Published: 01 June 2009
...John Patrick Leary This essay explores the politics of representation in contemporary Venezuelan television, which in its mainstream forms has produced an urban imaginary that models national citizenship on the geographic, class, and racial divisions of the Venezuelan metropolis. The nation's...
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Black Folk in English Folk
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Social Text (2025) 43 (1 (162)): 91–113.
Published: 01 March 2025
...Les Back; Stevie Back Abstract In 2009 the British National Party caused outrage by placing English folk songs on its website. The result within the folk scene was the Folk Against Fascism movement and a critical discussion over the racial import of the idea of “folk music” in England. This article...
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On (Our) American Ground: Caribbean-Latino-Diasporic Cultural Production and the Postnational “Guantanamera”
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Social Text (2008) 26 (1 (94)): 3–28.
Published: 01 March 2008
.... The song “Guantanamera” is a quasi-officially Cuban cultural and national artifact, though in fact its history of composition, performance, and recording reveals it to be a remarkably unstable and fluid text. The site, the U.S. naval base on Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, continues into 2007 to challenge political...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (3 (108)): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Kamran Asdar Ali In contrast to various dominant representational themes through which Pakistan's history is rendered intelligible to many (Islam, Muslim nationalism), this essay particularly focuses on a debate surrounding the question of morality (“pure or perverse literature”) connected to short...
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Hip Hop from ’48 Palestine: Youth, Music, and the Present/Absent
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Social Text (2012) 30 (3 (112)): 1–26.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Sunaina Maira; Magid Shihade This essay explores hip hop produced by Palestinian youth within the 1948 borders of Israel, a site that reveals some of the most acute contradictions of nationalism, citizenship, and settler colonialism. It focuses primarily on the pioneering Palestinian hip-hop group...
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