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Social Text (2004) 22 (1 (78)): 35–58.
Published: 01 March 2004
...Pius Adesanmi Duke University Press 2004 “Nous les Colonisés”
REFLECTIONS ON THE TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY OF OPPRESSION
Whatever his degree of energy, ability, originality, man is constantly Pius Adesanmi...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (3 (156)): 77–90.
Published: 01 September 2023
... the oppressive binary but also to obliterating gender as colonial cis‐heteropatriarchy knows it — to release the need for “making sense” and let it remake itself over and again. Bey describes the stifling experience of (en)forced embodiment of attributed/assumed privilege, claiming nonbinariness on/as the way...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (3 (160)): 75–100.
Published: 01 September 2024
... the structures of oppression, femme practices encourage us to unlearn and uproot institutional forms that reproduce social and material oppressions, and to take agency in (re)constructing and nourishing one's own worlds—to collectively plant the rose garden of struggle for liberation. 9. In her PhD...
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Social Text (2017) 35 (2 (131)): 17–38.
Published: 01 June 2017
...) lack of self-acceptance and self-assertion. These new coming out narratives at once both disavow and point to the continued presence of heteronormativity and queer oppression in everyday life. They also index widespread adherence not only to a neoliberal model of the self as transparent and naturally...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (2 (159)): 75–87.
Published: 01 June 2024
... focusing directly on female oppression. The women's use of costumes, role‐playing, and DIY instruments brought levity and playfulness to what they describe as an apocalyptic moment. [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (3 (108)): 31–49.
Published: 01 September 2011
... of will and capacity to violate, mutilate, and deform the bodies of the vulnerable; in this case, of vulnerable men. That this takes place in ways quite similar to the oppression of women opens up a range of questions about the pathological constitution of gender, desire, and even sensuality and materiality more...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 85–91.
Published: 01 September 2009
..., generated in part by the colonial encounter and in part by the collision with working-class subcultures, allowed it to include the whole way of life of other populations: now culture could include the popular and demotic, the marginalized and oppressed subjects of modernity. This contradictory inheritance...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 182–187.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Fred Moten; Stefano Harney Policy is the imposition of insecurity, the oppressive regulation of the plans and operations by which the objects of policy anticipate and object to policy. These are notes toward an understanding of policy that also take up the question of whether it is inevitable...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (1 (114)): 1–20.
Published: 01 March 2013
... Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth , Jose Maria Sison’s Struggle for National Democracy , and Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed . In the first half of the essay, I discuss how these intellectuals, particularly Sison, not only constitute a world system of decolonizing thought that is simultaneously...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (2 (99)): 105–131.
Published: 01 June 2009
...Dohra Ahmad Following a brief discussion of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart , this essay examines the newly burgeoning genre of “oppressed Muslim women” narratives. For each of the texts under consideration—Jean Sasson's Princess , Latifa and Shékéba Hachemi's My Forbidden Face , Azar Nafisi's...
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Social Text (2006) 24 (2 (87)): 47–65.
Published: 01 June 2006
... that while
the history of suffering experienced by the Jews (a long history of anti-
Semitism culminating in the Holocaust) has no direct link to the Palestin-
ians or the history of Palestine, the Palestinians’ past and current suffering
(their dispossession, enforced exile, and continual oppression...
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Social Text (2001) 19 (4 (69)): 67–91.
Published: 01 December 2001
... will address in this essay is: What are the connections Fawzia
between postmodern capitalism in the era of globalization and the return Afzal-Khan
to conservative, traditionalist attitudes toward life (the postmodern/tradi-
tionalist dichotomy)—which then converge to keep women oppressed in
so-called...
Journal Article
Social Text (2001) 19 (4 (69)): 1–5.
Published: 01 December 2001
..., however, when mem-
bers of those cultures seek to opt out, when MCDs become oppressive
(for example, when a British woman rejects her Muslim parents’ plans for
an arranged marriage). This is a double bind—cultures should be pro...
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Social Text (2005) 23 (3-4 (84-85)): 171–191.
Published: 01 December 2005
... of color participate in these contradictions but do not
emerge unscathed. The desires comprising the cosmopolitan gay male
subject in fact reinscribe oppressive racial hierarchies while enjoining gay
men of color to both...
Journal Article
Social Text (2024) 42 (2 (159)): 1–34.
Published: 01 June 2024
..., capture, differentiate, reproduce.” As such, it is not necessarily tied to the university per se but can be understood as a specific struggle tied to any institution or oppressive structure of modernity, as its specific resistance, as that which is left after institutionalization, typically in the form...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (1 (118)): 45–65.
Published: 01 March 2014
... genuinely pluralistic, especially to de-center white, middle-class
women in our theories and practices. . . . I focus on intersectionality
here in order to encourage philosophers to appreciate the multifaceted
relationships among kinds of oppression and privilege.”35 For Garry, phi-
losophy’s...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (2 (119)): 1–23.
Published: 01 June 2014
...,
clear, lucid, and balanced society — industrial capitalism emerged, that is,
the harshest, most savage, most selfish, most dishonest, oppressive society
one could possibly imagine. I do not want to say that the philosophers were...
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Social Text (2001) 19 (2 (67)): 75–101.
Published: 01 June 2001
..., which he understands dialectically as
the product of slavery, dispersion, and oppression, and simultaneously, as
the necessary condition for black modernity and the forging of an anti-
imperialist critique of Western culture.4 However unfashionably idiosyn...
Journal Article
Social Text (2002) 20 (3 (72)): 101–115.
Published: 01 September 2002
...-
and South Asian ing the recent phenomenon of hate violence and racial profiling aimed at
Arabs, Muslims, and South Asians, I seek here to situate our current
communities in moment of crisis within the multiple histories of racial oppression...
Journal Article
Social Text (2015) 33 (3 (124)): 1–18.
Published: 01 September 2015
...,” the phrase has come to signify that which must be resisted to
imagine new modes of sociality not predicated on oppression.1 In May
2013, this phrase figured centrally in a very different critique of the liberal
state: Glenn Beck’s keynote address delivered at the annual convention of
the National...
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