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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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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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Social Text (2022) 40 (3 (152)): 83–104.
Published: 01 September 2022
... state, as well as some of its interior regions, continue to challenge the state as a stable entity. 1 Similar to other regions of Africa and the Middle East that have been created by colonial boundary making and partitioning, the project of national security in India has led to border conflicts...
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Social Text (2012) 30 (4 (113)): 1–24.
Published: 01 December 2012
... and drew a direct line from the labor of the steel plant to the comforts of the middle-class kitchen. In particular, US Steel confrmed its vital role in the prosperity of the nation and the security of heterosexual domestic- ity through the use...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (2 (115)): 103–121.
Published: 01 June 2013
... of services from private suppliers (including security firms). The imposed reforms also delimited domestic political sovereignty by requiring individual nation-­ states to produce new constitutions that would secure private property rights...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (4 (117)): 1–24.
Published: 01 December 2013
... semi-­naked on the street.”16 Panic-­ stricken security personnel frantically hurried to inform their officers by radio. The army high command and the air force were alerted to avert a grave national security threat by launching a preemptive strike...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 107–122.
Published: 01 June 2018
... contradictions inherent in the emerging transnational class of elite Asians whose wealth and cosmopolitanism allow them to disregard the usual limitations of national boundaries and local mores. These novels demonstrate that representations of this social stratum, even when they are depicted as defined...
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Social Text (2006) 24 (4 (89)): 1–24.
Published: 01 December 2006
... the 2001 USA Patriot Act, the Guantánamo Bay prison camp, and the 2002 and 2006 Bush administration National Security Strategy. Spirit of Neoliberalism At racial Racial Liberalism and Transnational Capitalism...
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Social Text (2005) 23 (2 (83)): 1–19.
Published: 01 June 2005
.... Starting with public criticism of the interagency rivalries “built in” to President Truman’s 1947 National Security Act, subsequent efforts to reorganize surveillance labor included passage of the USA Patriot Act in 2001, the creation...
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Social Text (2002) 20 (3 (72)): 45–65.
Published: 01 September 2002
... security and the fantasies of China or other foreign countries as real or imagined threats. The memorabilia testify not just to the world wars but also to the more extended agenda of national security through military interventions during the Cold War. We have been told that the Cold War ended in 1989...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (4 (141)): 95–102.
Published: 01 December 2019
.... Their concern was for the loss of flow. Border closure meant that transnational supply chains — in particular in the Detroit- Windsor just- in- time auto sector — would grind to a halt. Supply chain managers I was talking to at the time went so far as to suggest that older forms of national security — those...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (3 (152)): 105–123.
Published: 01 September 2022
... for its hawkish stance against Iran and which is bolstered by a wider neoconservative network known for its unwavering support of Israel's security interests within the nation's capital. When I had agreed to meet Jamshid, 1 an Iranian American foreign policy expert who works for another think tank...
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Social Text (2000) 18 (1 (62)): 135–141.
Published: 01 March 2000
... of national defense and security. The forces of 136 Paula Rabinowitz 6. rabinowitz 2/11/00 10:49 AM Page 137 fascism would best be staved off through social security, unemployment insurance, and, most important, full employment, especially for youth...
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Social Text (2003) 21 (2 (75)): 125–140.
Published: 01 June 2003
... National Security Adviser Anthony Lake, U.N. Ambassador and later Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Undersecretary of Commerce Stuart Eizenstat, and Secretary of Defense Les Aspin. Shortly after assuming office in 1993, the Clinton administration announced a policy of “dual containment...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (4 (105)): 1–24.
Published: 01 December 2010
.... security state, which treats migrant workers and their kin as threats to national security. Punitive immigration laws confer an irremediable alien status on the reviled unauthorized migrant — ­one that places thousands of noncitizen detainees beyond the reach of legal relief or hope of reinte...
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Social Text (2003) 21 (4 (77)): 1–7.
Published: 01 December 2003
..., the task of corporate-interested governance is to loan debacle decide which private interest should receive public support. But certainly that is not all. This is an administration committed in its wrestled millions own national security declaration to make the world...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (4 (101)): 1–23.
Published: 01 December 2009
... spoke of the country’s dire need for translators to shore up national security. He promised to spend $114 million to expand the teaching of so-called “critical languages” such as Arabic, Farsi, Chinese, and so forth at the university as well as K – 12 levels as part of a new...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 97–123.
Published: 01 December 2022
..., the fear of “unknown unknowns” in national security discourse translates into further risk management initiatives. Securitization, in finance and national security, prioritizes the permanence of present conditions over the possibilities that the future may bring. Speculating on the future becomes...
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Social Text (2004) 22 (1 (78)): 59–84.
Published: 01 March 2004
.... Monterrey consensus. www.un.org/esa/ffd/aconf198-3.pdf . White House. 2002 . The national security strategy of the United States of America . Reverse Postcoloniality The British Empire has had a pretty lousy press from...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (3 (152)): 1–15.
Published: 01 September 2022
... to the cultivation of national attachments as well as exclusions. 6 In this sense, “security” is something lived and felt as much as it is a policy or institutional practice—whether by those on the receiving end of policing and war, or by “citizen forces” who take on the mantle of vigilance. 7 How does...