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Published: 01 June 2016
Figure 5 Sam Hopkins, Tags of Some Services Offered in and around Nairobi . 2012. C-print. Dimensions variable. ©Sam Hopkins. Courtesy of the artist
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Gendered Security/National Security: Political Branding and Population Racism
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Social Text (2010) 28 (4 (105)): 45–63.
Published: 01 December 2010
... of safety, fear, and threat. The analysis works through three different media productions that intersect with contemporary concerns of governance and economy: an advertising spread for clothing, a magazine article about cyber labor in China, and billboard advertisements for storage services. Assessing...
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African Americans, the Racial State, and the Cultus of War: Sacrifice and Citizenship
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Social Text (2016) 34 (4 (129)): 41–70.
Published: 01 December 2016
... the military imperatives of the very White government that subjected them to the assaults of racism through legal sanction. Central to this problem was the ritual power of civil religion, particularly the role of death in warfare. By risking their lives through military service, African American soldiers...
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Jimmie Durham and the Carpentry of Ambivalence
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Social Text (2010) 28 (4 (105)): 91–111.
Published: 01 December 2010
... construction of the indigenous artist as a clever or knowable other. As a carpenter who fixes, joins together, and must confront people and things, Durham forces himself to utilize his own ambivalence about representation in the service of liberation. © 2010 Duke University Press 2010 Jimmie Durham...
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Cripping the Welfare Queen: The Radical Potential of Disability Politics
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Social Text (2021) 39 (3 (148)): 79–101.
Published: 01 September 2021
... for maintaining life—schools, hospitals, social services—have become increasingly compromised. As such, these novels enable an elaboration of a critical disability politic centered on welfare queen mythology and its attendant structures of state neglect, one that overwrites the punitive logics of public resource...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 21–38.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of land and municipal services. These processes of majority-inflected urbanization are being substantially constrained both by the restructuring of urban rule and economy and by the exigencies of climate change. At the same time, there are often undue expectations that grassroots movements...
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The Security State and Securitizing Patriarchies in Postcolonial India
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Social Text (2022) 40 (3 (152)): 83–104.
Published: 01 September 2022
... in service to the colonial and postcolonial state, were altered in this period, and that a dominant caste-based warrior masculinity came to be fractured to include a more securitized version. The authors see the targeting of Sikhs as part of a broader process of postcolonial nation making through militarism...
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“One Unique You”: Affective Attachments and DNA Testing as Ethnotechnological Apparatus
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Social Text (2023) 41 (1 (154)): 71–97.
Published: 01 March 2023
... of surveillance. The implications of these developments are attended to by interrogating the directions taken by DNA datafication in terms of both surveying and surveilling. At center stage is the question of the modulation of the individual's access—to countries and services—enabled by their datafication. Thus...
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Edward Said’s Home, Martin Buber’s Mailbox: The “Terrible Silences” of Israeli Colonial Jerusalem
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Social Text (2019) 37 (3): 73–92.
Published: 01 September 2019
... the mobilization of presence and absence has been crucial to Israel’s colonization of Jerusalem and how they have been utilized in the service of the state’s drive for exclusive control over this symbolically potent city. This is done, principally, through a reading of the Palestinian house in Jerusalem in which...
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Thanatosonics: Ontologies of Acoustic Violence
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Social Text (2014) 32 (2 (119)): 25–51.
Published: 01 June 2014
... of their informational content. In these situations, sound becomes indistinguishable from violence itself. Drawing on the experiences of Iraqi civilians and US military service members, the essay claims that the ontologies of violence and sound have similarly directional and omnidirectional characteristics. Both...
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S’More Inequality: The Neoliberal Marshmallow and the Corporate Reform of Education
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Social Text (2014) 32 (3 (120)): 29–48.
Published: 01 September 2014
... serves as a widely recognized touchstone for this revivification of interest in the will. But the marshmallow test is more than a handy synecdoche for the cold new logic behind shrinking public services and the burgeoning apparatus of surveillance and accountability. It also shows how the sciences...
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In the Men’s Room: E. B. Tylor and the Will to Systematize
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Social Text (2014) 32 (3 (120)): 87–107.
Published: 01 September 2014
... to the algorithmic density that swirls around us? To what degree does the epistemic thrust of empire haunt our willful actions in this age of digital self-fashioning? All this willed discernment, calculation, adjustment, and particularizing in the name of and in service to a divinity that shall remain unmarked—where...
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The Biopolitics of Race in Futureland
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Social Text (2015) 33 (2 (123)): 29–55.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Madhu Dubey This article examines the political implications of the resurgence of biological concepts of race at the turn of the twenty-first century, especially as these are viewed through the prism of science fiction. Current racial science purportedly recognizes racial difference in the service...
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Necrospeculation: Postemancipation Finance and Black Redress
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Social Text (2019) 37 (2): 29–65.
Published: 01 June 2019
...Kris Manjapra In 2015 the British government finally finished paying off the Slavery Abolition Act loan. For 180 years it had serviced debt created by the massive public borrowing of 1835, which was used to compensate British slave owners for the loss of their “slave property” during emancipation...
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Performing the Global University
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Social Text (2009) 27 (4 (101)): 25–44.
Published: 01 December 2009
... may be deployed in the service of university transnationalism. Theater's “Edifice Complex” (the rampant infrastructural expansion of theater facilities and MFA-driven ethos since the late 1960s) is comparable to the global university's “Outpost Complex” (the construction of overseas campuses geared...
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Radio Silence: Black Technologies and the Sound of Britain's Dying Colonialism
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Social Text (2025) 43 (1 (162)): 49–69.
Published: 01 March 2025
... foreclose homegrown independent media. Tracing Brexit alongside the twenty-first-century decline of the BBC World Service radio, and how it once reverberated from London, sound carries temporally and spatially beyond coloniality. Neglect and abandonment of infrastructure are part of the ongoing colonial...
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The Soul of Neoliberalism
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Social Text (2007) 25 (3 (92)): 103–123.
Published: 01 September 2007
... in the 1980s, the intervention could encompass multiple
historical ironies. Mr. Díaz himself had passed his teenaged years in the
leftist Sandinista army, fighting the U.S.-backed contras and translating
CNN broadcasts for the Sandinista intelligence service. A nominal Catho-
lic, he was born again...
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Neoliberalism, Activism, and HIV/AIDS in Postapartheid South Africa
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Social Text (2008) 26 (1 (94)): 75–93.
Published: 01 March 2008
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quently been referenced as a revolutionary economic program, was being
shaped by neoliberal efforts to establish the state in the role of monitoring
service delivery rather than implementing services. In the new South
Africa, the RDP purportedly...
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The Urbanization of Labor: LIVING-WAGE ACTIVISM IN THE AMERICAN CITY
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Social Text (2000) 18 (1 (62)): 31–54.
Published: 01 March 2000
... the wage-relation.
Here, community and church groups have joined hands with emerging
militant unions like the Services Employees International Union (SEIU)
and the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union (HERE) in a
genuine gesture of class solidarity...
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Invoking Fiscal Crisis: MORAL DISCOURSE AND POLITICS IN NEW YORK CITY
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Social Text (2003) 21 (3 (76)): 59–83.
Published: 01 September 2003
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A 3 October 2001 New York Times editorial agrees, calling for “major
sacrifice by New Yorkers”:
It would be heartbreaking for City Hall to have to ask the city’s heroic work
force, especially its uniformed services, for pay freezes and givebacks. It
would be almost suicidal to try...
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