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Social Text (2008) 26 (2 (95)): 83–103.
Published: 01 June 2008
...Mandana E. Limbert This article examines the ruins of the former structures of rule in a medium-sized town in the Sultanate of Oman. It explores how people in Bahla relate to and perceive the ruins of forts, walls, and neighborhoods that had helped maintain order in the previous era...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (3 (96)): 11–37.
Published: 01 September 2008
... painters have been plastering the city's main thoroughfares and Christian neighborhood gateways with portraits of Jesus and Christian symbols. Monumental and assertive in public space, these artifacts perform in several capacities: as visible emblems of Christian territory, as a way of making manifest...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (1 (142)): 67–88.
Published: 01 March 2020
... such as neighborhood and women’s collectives offer new forms of sociality that redefine imprisonment. As women under house arrest are expected to provide for themselves and their children, it is important to understand how they meet such challenges, considering how gender norms and institutional violence impact...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (4 (129)): 111–138.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Junaid Rana This essay draws on ethnographic research in a Pakistani neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, to illuminate how the concepts of becoming and infrastructure reveal insights into racialization and the workings of the counterterror state. I discuss the concepts of racial becoming and racial...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (2 (123)): 83–98.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Richard T. Rodríguez This article examines Latino male homosexual practices emerging in Chicago’s presumably impermeable neighborhoods. Drawing from a range of texts—the sociological studies comprising The Sexual Organization of the City (2004), Achy Obejas’s short story “Above All, a Family Man...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (2 (95)): 13–33.
Published: 01 June 2008
...AbdouMaliq Simone Taking two neighborhoods in Dakar and Douala, the article investigates the processes through which these localities attempt to strike a balance between multiplying the conceivable relations among people, materials, and talk and forging a provisional framework to keep things from...
Journal Article
Social Text (2005) 23 (3-4 (84-85)): 141–155.
Published: 01 December 2005
... of welfare services, creating a virtual
free-for-all arena for economic market competition.5 Such policies have
redrawn boundaries, neighborhoods, and lives and given rise to insidious
forms of surveillance of and violence in communities of color.6
This essay critically examines and documents...
Journal Article
Social Text (2017) 35 (1 (130)): 101–121.
Published: 01 March 2017
... embodiment of endurance. Consider the testimonies of Neto, which usually revolved around El Hoyo (the Hole), the makeshift neighborhood where Neto was born and lived most of his twenty-two years. Located near an abandoned mine, El Hoyo is a settlement built on one of the precarious hillsides that frame...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (2 (99)): 25–53.
Published: 01 June 2009
..., where almost all of its
staff and volunteers live. The station’s programming consists of studio chat
shows and digital video documentaries on neighborhood organizations,
cultural life, and local history in Caracas’s working-class communities. Its...
Journal Article
Social Text (2000) 18 (1 (62)): 81–107.
Published: 01 March 2000
... a neighborhood, lead to
research tracking intergenerational welfare use and neighborhood effects,
as indicated in the task force’s first annual report.17 The medicalization of
welfare is a cultural process; however, it is a cultural...
Journal Article
Social Text (2014) 32 (2 (119)): 53–75.
Published: 01 June 2014
... in Lisbon, Portugal, I hitched a
ride to the “other” side of the Tagus river, more specifically, the “south
bank” (margem sul) neighborhood of Arrentela. Pedro, a divisional leader
in the main state agency responsible for immigrant assimilation and
“intercultural dialogue” in Portugal, introduced me...
Journal Article
Social Text (2010) 28 (1 (102)): 59–85.
Published: 01 March 2010
..., his Manhattan neighborhood lost a
steadfast anchor and devoted chronicler. For over sixty years, Schwartz
and his wife, Reenah, made their home in a converted church in the upper
Fifties between Ninth and Tenth avenues. Here the Schwartzes lived,
worked, raised their children...
Journal Article
Social Text (2001) 19 (3 (68)): 57–89.
Published: 01 September 2001
... belt areas, the degeneration and abandonment of housing stock, the
desertification of inner-city neighborhoods—created a city within a city of
derelict buildings, abandoned lots, dumping grounds, and even entire
derelict city parks: a ready-made archipelago...
Journal Article
Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 55–60.
Published: 01 March 2018
... the sense of fear within a neighborhood. Gang members use graffiti to mark their territory or turf, declare their allegiance to the gang, advertise a gang’s status or power, and to challenge rivals. Graffiti is used to communicate messages between gangs using codes with common meaning. Of greater concern...
Journal Article
Social Text (2005) 23 (1 (82)): 37–42.
Published: 01 March 2005
...—the phan-
tom imprint of train tracks that abruptly dead-end and begin, dead-end
and begin—records the forty-year shift of neighborhoods such as Jef-
ferson Park and West Adams from white to black to Latino. As a way to
both understand history and give witness, memory involves a kind of time
travel...
Journal Article
Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 131–133.
Published: 01 December 2015
... and Diaspora.” In Identity, Culture, Community, Difference , edited by Rutherford Jonathan , 222 – 37 . London : Lawrence and Wishart . Kaye Anthony . 2009 . Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press . Patterson...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 149–180.
Published: 01 December 2021
... have been on the move around the planet over the last year. They came together in different places and at different times to haunt the powers that have been pushing austerity into our lives, communities, and commons. Self-help groups, mutual aid societies, and food banks for the poor in neighborhoods...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (1 (158)): 1–26.
Published: 01 March 2024
... and testifying to the variety of sexually promiscuous neighborhood offerings nestle among fliers for particular local events; and handwritten thank-you notes and playing cards with names on them hint at deeply personal recollections. Weston's first SRO, the Esquire, was located on Forty-Fifth Street...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (4 (117)): 79–97.
Published: 01 December 2013
... murdered by units of the
Irgun and Lehi, ultraright-wing Jewish militias. The village’s agricultural
lands became the Jerusalem neighborhood of Givat Shaul Bet, now part of
an ultraorthodox Jewish neighborhood. Regarding Deir Yassin’s remain-
82...
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Rooting Out Injustices from the Top: The Multispecies Alliance in Morro da Babilônia, Rio de Janeiro
Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 91–108.
Published: 01 March 2022
... is taking us back to the very beginning of the story of this community and place; it is showing us the mud and shallow topsoil covering the hills around the downtown area, and it is putting slums and rich neighborhoods once again in connection, both though disasters and mitigation projects. And yet, climate...
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