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Social Text (2012) 30 (2 (111)): 43–74.
Published: 01 June 2012
..., phenotype, cultural identity, through which bodies have become racially ascribed as white or nonwhite. Rather, Islamophobia demonstrates that religion (and by extension, secular “ideology”) has historically generated a supplemental racial dynamic irreducible to the assignation of color. This second axis...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (1 (154)): 71–97.
Published: 01 March 2023
... these two layers. The first layer regards the neocolonial construction of an ethnosubject anchored in the racialization of DNA. This racialization consists of two steps. First, race is naturalized and biologized anew through the technological procedure of DNA decoding and data comparison. Second, race...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (1 (138)): 107–115.
Published: 01 March 2019
...KT Thompson This article traces a discursive lineage from a 2013 Second Amendment billboard campaign in Colorado to visual accounts of white settler nostalgia that circulated in the 1860s. The billboard foregrounds fantasies of indigeneity for a contemporary political discourse of “gun rights...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 231–241.
Published: 01 September 2009
..., the chapter titled “The Social Text” in the second volume of his Critique of Everyday Life (1961) is an intriguing intertext for the journal, especially given the importance of the category of the “everyday” in its early issues. The occasional invocation of the title phrase in Social Text articles over...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (4 (109)): 107–128.
Published: 01 December 2011
... refigured ways and forms. Second, in recounting the reinvention of Chinese medicine for living in perfect harmony with disharmonious urban worlds, this essay traces how oneness is actualized as a multiplicitous and generative analytic through entanglements with modernity, science, and biomedicine—all...
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Social Text (2012) 30 (1 (110)): 51–69.
Published: 01 March 2012
... argue that Althusser's Maoism and his structuralism were both answers to the specific theoretical and political impasses confronting French Marxism in the 1960s. In a second part, I analyze how Althusser's Maoist students applied some of these ideas to their political activities. Finally, I turn...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (1 (114)): 1–20.
Published: 01 March 2013
... local and planetary but also reconstitute culture and humanity as a whole. In the second and final part, I explore what their critical reception in American higher education reveals about the failures of postcolonial studies in the age of globalization. © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 Third World...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (2 (115)): 1–17.
Published: 01 June 2013
... sedimented forms of reading. We situate this intervention first in relation to long-standing debates within the humanities regarding Marxism, modernism, and the aesthetic, and second in relation to the recent “descriptive turn” or reaction against “symptomatic reading,” suggesting that it is difficult...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (4 (141)): 1–21.
Published: 01 December 2019
... American enemy, directly creating the gang violence in the Northern Triangle. This article considers if the cost of security for the US citizenship is borne by the insecurity of Central American citizenship. The second half of the article examines fictionalized accounts drawn from the testimonies of women...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (1 (142)): 67–88.
Published: 01 March 2020
... for house arrest while policing the terms of their confinement. Second, this article presents the author’s fieldwork involving a women’s collective that offers art-related workshops to encourage incarcerated women to develop a different understanding of their agency and potential. Institutions...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (4 (145)): 1–24.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of an expanded subjectless critique by interrogating not only the formative exclusions of queer studies but also the contingent material conditions through which “proper” queer subjects and identities emerge today; second, it reexamines long-standing debates on materialism and the incommensurability of queer...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (3 (152)): 17–35.
Published: 01 September 2022
... and their elaboration into hierarchies of humanity; and second as a phenomenon of migration and the constitution of transnational sociocultural spheres. Diaspora, thus, generates forms of pan-Africanism and Black consciousness as much as it produces agendas related to transnational governance and global security...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (2 (155)): 45–73.
Published: 01 June 2023
... that focus on race, gender, and the longer lineages of reactionary thought. In the first place, it helps us account for the particular financialized context for these cultural politics. Second, it helps us account for how they thrive on highly constrained and speculative forms of decentralized creative...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 153–179.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Jennifer Wenzel Abstract This essay discusses “Forms of Life” in two senses: first, infrastructure as a social process that fosters particular forms of collective life and second, the agency/vitality imputed to infrastructure. The essay considers an unremarked ambivalence in energy humanities about...
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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 (2017) 35 (4): 113–152.
Published: 01 December 2017
... and placed under house arrest in the Seychelles to end a war of British imperial conquest. In the second case, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the twenty-first century’s iconic dissident, sought asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London to avoid arrest and extradition. Prempeh’s exile on the edge...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (1 (142)): 39–66.
Published: 01 March 2020
... the unpaid sites of family and community into the paid labor market during second-wave feminism (coupled with an unprecedented privileging of commercial values with the emergence of neoliberal market fundamentalism) has been the social problem of a care deficit. What sociologist Lynn S. Chancer has called...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (3 (124)): 1–18.
Published: 01 September 2015
...- ans and Guns,” American Indians are not in fact fully protected by the Second Amendment. Tribal governments are not bound by the Second Amendment in their sovereign ability to regulate gun ownership on tribal lands.4 Through his misrepresentation...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (1 (126)): 49–71.
Published: 01 March 2016
... up as he was shot. Prosecutors took this to mean “both hands held high above the head.” Because his right arm was broken and his right hand had been shot, Brown did not meet this standard. Witnesses who glimpsed the three seconds in which Brown...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (1 (126)): 97.
Published: 01 March 2016
... 2016 Erratum for Martha Hodes, “Lincoln’s Black Mourners: Submerged Voices, Everyday Life, and the Question of Storytelling.” Social Text no. 125 (2015): 68–76. On p. 72, the second sentence of the second full paragraph should have read: According to the white journalist...