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Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 1: Rescue Operation , Massimo Sestini, June 2014. World Press Photo. https://www.worldpressphoto.org/getmedia/9ecd46ab-572b-4ceb-a90b-5f26c0e6baa7/2015-Massimo-Sestini-SN2 . More
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Social Text (2019) 37 (1 (138)): 85.
Published: 01 March 2019
... Death records of anonymous Africans rescued from illegal slave ships and held at the House of Correction in Rio de Janeiro, collected at the Arquivo Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, IJ7 11. Photograph by Yuko Miki. Death records of anonymous Africans rescued from illegal slave ships...
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Published: 01 March 2019
Death records of anonymous Africans rescued from illegal slave ships and held at the House of Correction in Rio de Janeiro, collected at the Arquivo Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, IJ7 11. Photograph by Yuko Miki. More
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Social Text (2023) 41 (4 (157)): 61–82.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Figure 1: Rescue Operation , Massimo Sestini, June 2014. World Press Photo. https://www.worldpressphoto.org/getmedia/9ecd46ab-572b-4ceb-a90b-5f26c0e6baa7/2015-Massimo-Sestini-SN2 . ...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (2 (147)): 1–23.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Wendy Sung Abstract This article examines the role of the visual in instances of recorded anti‐Black racial violence and pushes against dominant discourses of the technological rescue narrative—that technology and more visibility will lead to different outcomes of accountability, protection...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (1 (138)): 87–105.
Published: 01 March 2019
... who survived the Mary E. Smith ’s horrific transatlantic journey realized that rescue was merely the beginning of an uncertain life in their new identity as liberated Africans. 45 Their deaths and afterlives trouble the narratives that have been formative to our own understandings of the past...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 37–44.
Published: 01 March 2018
... to understand she does not usually speak. In the main body-snatching narrative of the first season, Nomi, the white transgender digital hacker, is kidnapped by the BPO and must be rescued by her “normate” black girlfriend, Amanita. In contrast to the gothic horror of interracial relationship in Get Out...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (4 (157)): 37–60.
Published: 01 December 2023
... it, is characterized by acts of retrieval and a desire to preserve something in imminent danger of being lost. Whether one is rescuing a wrecked or disabled ship or its cargo from loss at sea, salvage describes those attempts to keep hold of a materiality that is at risk of disappearing. In legal contexts, salvage...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (1 (122)): 71–92.
Published: 01 March 2015
..., hold considerable promise for post- disaster rescue and recovery efforts.2 In the midst of disaster, however, electric grids must immediately be shut off to prevent gas explosions, and communication relay towers become saturated, fall out of alignment, and lose power. Digital capabilities can...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (3 (156)): 1–34.
Published: 01 September 2023
... monitoring techniques to locate the exact maritime position of potential or actual shipwrecks, the activists notify border policing authorities in Europe to demand that they take action to rescue and disembark the migrants. In this manner, their strategy has sought to appropriate and repurpose...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (4 (109)): 57–79.
Published: 01 December 2011
... Mongolian and Chinese empires (most notably, Tibet), the Com- munists came to the same conclusion as the Nationalists: the empire must be rescued.11 The story of how both Nationalists and Communists came to embrace...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 69–95.
Published: 01 December 2022
.... In 1966, Bermúdez wrote a book-length manifesto on Pronaf: Rescue of the Border Market: Labor in the Service of Mexico . Bermúdez saw his project as urgently and magnanimously saving the border from a dangerous situation that was beyond fronterizo control, thus justifying the program. Rescue...
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Social Text (2003) 21 (2 (75)): 49–74.
Published: 01 June 2003
...), the “Diasporic Jews” had to abandon their diasporic culture, which, in the case of Arab Jews, meant abandoning Arabness and acquiescing in assimilationist mod- ernization, for “their own good.” Within this Promethean rescue narrative...
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Social Text (2007) 25 (2 (91)): 103–142.
Published: 01 June 2007
... violence, itself rendered as an excess of the war. In other words, the politics of empire had to be effaced, in order that empire might return — first as a rescue of women and then as the enactment of an absolutely racialized and religious...
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Social Text (2002) 20 (3 (72)): 9–20.
Published: 01 September 2002
... Fragment on Kropotkin and Giuliani 15 The people’s Avenue, on New York Avenue, on Grand Concourse Avenue, the rush of state violence and its refusal had become overwhelming by September rescue brigades 10, 2001. There was widespread rejection...
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Social Text (2006) 24 (2 (87)): 111–123.
Published: 01 June 2006
... find and found a home-place, or a discipline, as a site for memory and return. Through Said’s writing, we rediscover the political work of the humanities’ cultural rescue, and we recall that his home discipline of com- 114 Ana Dopico...
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Social Text (2002) 20 (3 (72)): 1–8.
Published: 01 September 2002
... site a local misery would be blown halfway around the world. On the other hand, the quarantine of the Afghan people (while the most wanted slipped away) was twinned by the management of the anthrax mailings. Recycling old colonial tropes, the rescue operation...
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Social Text (2012) 30 (4 (113)): 103–123.
Published: 01 December 2012
... was engaged in rescue operations. By the end of the next day, fourteen bodies were recovered and twelve migrants rescued. This incident would later be determined to be the worst death event in US/ Mexico border history, with fourteen of the twenty-six migrants...
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Social Text (2001) 19 (3 (68)): 151.
Published: 01 September 2001
.... The most important thing is food, work, and housing. If these three things coexist then there is a ‘why’ for the person to live. We will rescue their cit- izenship.” Several of the inhabitants of the recovery area refer to what is going...
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Social Text (2003) 21 (3 (76)): 39–57.
Published: 01 September 2003
... scientific and lay discourses about children who have been traumatized portray them as unlikely to adopt the character traits of desired citizens as they grow to adulthood: they will always be “damaged goods.” Ironically, children “at risk” who live overseas are seen as both in need of rescue...