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Social Text (2003) 21 (2 (75)): 75–94.
Published: 01 June 2003
... Minority
by the Israeli State, 1948 –1970
ON THE NATURE, TRANSFORMATION, AND
CONSTRAINTS OF COLLABORATION
Although widely acknowledged as a universal...
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in From the Occupied Parks to the Gardens of the Nation: Politics and Aesthetics of Urban Greenery in Post-Gezi Istanbul
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Published: 01 March 2022
Figure 3. Natural gas – powered barbecue stations at Ümraniye Millet Bahçesi (Garden of the Nation), operated by AKP-led Ümraniye District Municipality. Photograph by Sinan Erensü.
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Published: 01 June 2019
Ernst Haeckel, “Chiroptera.” Lithograph from Kunstformen der Natur ( Art Forms of Nature , 1904).
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Social Text (2009) 27 (2 (99)): 145–158.
Published: 01 June 2009
... lie two approaches toward the word culture : (1) gaining mastery over one's natural surroundings and human nature; and (2) caring for and preserving nature that the human power simultaneously destroys. These approaches are not without negative aspects: American culture, based on the idea of taming...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 71–101.
Published: 01 March 2011
..., it is asked, did Sloane's natural history profit from its engagement with African slavery, and upon what techniques did it depend for its authoritative depiction of plant species? Of special interest is the relationship between description and illustration in his published Natural History of Jamaica (1707...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (2 (99)): 139–143.
Published: 01 June 2009
... as a historical epoch and as human beings' increasing technical mastery over nature. In its historical sense, the Enlightenment has been victorious in the United States, where free and equal citizens engage in market exchanges as free agents, without feudal and precapitalist residues. Examining the concept...
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in Curating with Counterpowers: Activist Curating, Museum Protest, and Institutional Liberation
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Published: 01 June 2023
Figure 1. Number of articles about protest inside or directly outside museums and galleries, January 2000 – December 2021, in the EBSCO Art Full Text archive, the Guardian , and New York Times . My thanks to Jennie Williams for her Natural Language Processing work to produce this timeline.
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Social Text (2008) 26 (1 (94)): 95–114.
Published: 01 March 2008
..., it makes visible and intelligible some unarticulated and unarticulable assumptions about bioscience as a natural and exclusive framework for comprehending and addressing HIV/AIDS. In particular, it suggests that the bioscientific paradigm “immunity,” which lies at the very center of HIV/AIDS, might...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 118–122.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Ashley Dawson Social Text contributors have approached the environmental crises of the last several decades by exploring the constitution of a second nature. If, that is, the environment furnishes particular societies with a specific set of obstacles and possibilities, this original natural realm...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (3 (152)): 83–104.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Inderpal Grewal; Dipin Kaur; Sasha Sabherwal Abstract This article examines the shifting nature of patriarchy and gender among Sikhs in Indian Punjab through the 1980s and into the 1990s in relation to the Indian state's counterinsurgent policies and practices. The authors’ research reveals...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 15–35.
Published: 01 March 2011
... of global finance, to name a few, as parts of the same story. Yet in leaning on bioscientific discourses that explain disease causality as naturally occurring within individual bodies (which may also be aggregated into populations), they concomitantly assume that boundaries we use to divide up the world...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (1 (158)): 53–79.
Published: 01 March 2024
... clay performances, this article builds toward an ecocritical framework that takes account of the literal dimensions of what might otherwise fall into the trappings of an abstract, conceptual affinity. That is, existing as conceptually closer to nonhuman nature carries duties and responsibilities, labor...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (2): 1–28.
Published: 01 June 2019
... in biobanks have become key to the generation of biovalue. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 property law science Myriad biocapital race nature gender On June 13, 2013, the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled that isolated, unmodified DNA cannot be patented, in the case...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (3 (124)): 1–18.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Alex Trimble Young This article argues that the phrase “monopoly of violence,” which circulates in so many contemporary academic critiques of the liberal state, is not adequate to describe the nature of violence deployed by settler colonial societies against indigenous and racialized bodies...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 25–30.
Published: 01 March 2018
...—a relationship that does not traverse a two-way street. We define and examine natural, technological, human, and financial resources to understand how these resources are moved between ports and mines and the mechanisms by which networked capitalism allocates these resources unequally. Copyright © 2018 Duke...
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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 (2014) 32 (1 (118)): 93–113.
Published: 01 March 2014
... description of the nature of political exclusion, and Julia Kristeva’s work on abjection, I locate this abject capital at the intersection of cultural logics of capitalist exchange and consumer aesthetics. Quarantined in exceptional spaces like the retail or wholesale Dumpster, its economic and cultural value...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (2 (103)): 31–56.
Published: 01 June 2010
..., the political ontology of Frank B. Wilderson, and the cinematic vision of Haile Gerima against certain signs of prevarication, even gainsaying, regarding the nature of slavery and its afterlife in prominent strains of critical (race) theory, here advanced by noted scholars like Giorgio Agamben and Achille...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (2 (99)): 159–164.
Published: 01 June 2009
... the results and the nature of the contribution itself. The idea of contribution presupposes the merit of the order to which the contribution is being made: it is precisely this merit of the order that needs to be scrutinized. Emigrant intellectuals—by making contributions without critically reflecting upon...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (3 (104)): 11–37.
Published: 01 September 2010
... sought to naturalize the stark racial categories by which Cuba then lived, even as the images illuminated the realities of—and white anxieties about—interracial sex and its primary cultural and biological product: mestizaje . I link this historical backdrop to “her” return in the present day, after...
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