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Social Text (2025) 43 (2 (163)): 1–16.
Published: 01 June 2025
... civilian spaces. This essay, on the contrary, argues that in light of the longer history of colonialism with which Israel's settlercolonial enterprise is continuous, the assault on cultural life should be seen as a systematic element of its overall project, the elimination of the Palestinians as a people...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 123–141.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Jodi A. Byrd This essay draws upon critical ethnic studies, Indigenous critical theory, and settler colonial studies to consider how biopolitics and biocapital have converged in North America through the racial regimes inaugurated by settler colonialism. It does so by close reading the popular...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (3 (124)): 1–18.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Alex Trimble Young This article argues that the phrase “monopoly of violence,” which circulates in so many contemporary academic critiques of the liberal state, is not adequate to describe the nature of violence deployed by settler colonial societies against indigenous and racialized bodies...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (1 (146)): 21–46.
Published: 01 March 2021
... action. However, formal written statements may challenge institutions to recognize their complicity in settler colonialism and their institutional responsibilities to tribal sovereignty. Building on these critiques, particularly the writings of Métis cultural producer Chelsea Vowel, this article offers...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (3): 73–92.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Thomas Abowd This article examines the primary means by which Israeli settler colonialism has appropriated and reconfigured Jerusalem since 1948—discursively no less than physically. It analyzes how the Jewish state, building on the colonial suppositions and discourses of the pre-1948 Zionist...
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Social Text (2012) 30 (3 (112)): 1–26.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Sunaina Maira; Magid Shihade This essay explores hip hop produced by Palestinian youth within the 1948 borders of Israel, a site that reveals some of the most acute contradictions of nationalism, citizenship, and settler colonialism. It focuses primarily on the pioneering Palestinian hip-hop group...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 41–61.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Jodi Kim This essay offers an investigation of US settler colonialism and military empire, a conjunction theorized as settler modernity, in the post–World War II era. It argues that settler modernity is an ensemble of relations significantly structured and continually reproduced through manifold...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (1 (138)): 107–115.
Published: 01 March 2019
... after the Civil War. It contends that fantasies and projections of white settler nostalgia remain resonant in contemporary gun rights debates, while the Second Amendment’s inextricable relations to settler colonialism, slavery, and white supremacy remain suppressed. Copyright © 2019 Duke University...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 83–106.
Published: 01 June 2018
... of these cases it is necessary to go beyond the juridical framework of discrimination, which forecloses consideration of the constitutive force of state racisms, ongoing settler colonial dispossession, and heteronormativity, and to consider a more expansive frame that brings together and makes legible the shared...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (4 (129)): 87–110.
Published: 01 December 2016
... against the linkage between settler colonial dispossession and the Westphalian trinity of nation, state, and territory. At the end of August 1993, just weeks before the Oslo Accords were to be finalized, return was granted to the deportees at Marj al-Zuhur. About half of the men returned in September...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (4 (145)): 105–123.
Published: 01 December 2020
... could mean in the context of settler colonialism, where Indigenous women and queers are disappeared into nowhere, and in light of Indigenous insistence on land as normative, where Indigenous bodies reemerge as first and foremost political orders, this article offers queer Indigenous relationality...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (2 (103)): 85–112.
Published: 01 June 2010
... of apartheid and stretches into the present. I argue that this era saw the developing recognition on the part of the settler colonial state that coercive apparati needed to be supplemented by the desiring machinery of the mass media, which the South African state awkwardly appropriated, first through...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (4 (117)): 79–97.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Alex Lubin; Les W. Field; Melanie K. Yazzie; Jakob Schiller In May 2011, the Anthropology Department and the Department of American Studies at the University of New Mexico offered a class entitled “Technologies of Settler-Colonialism in Israel-Palestine.” This field school was designed...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 1–18.
Published: 01 June 2018
... in the historical present. Against the commensurabilities and rationalities of debt and finance capitalism, conditioned through the proprietary logics of settler colonialism and racial capitalism, the essay gestures toward alternative frameworks for building collective capacities for what the authors describe...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 145–164.
Published: 01 June 2018
... that nourishes their souls. The first rehearsal was conceived as an experiment in refusal: to refuse the search for hope or potentiality in the violence of antiblackness, settler colonialism, and predatory capitalism. The next rehearsal sought an orientation within that refusal toward a nonoptimistic...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 85–107.
Published: 01 December 2015
... to rationalize and implement slavery and its after- math. By investigating the obscured connections between the emergence of European liberalism, on the one hand, and settler colonialism in the Americas, the transatlantic African slave trade, and the East Indies...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 107–122.
Published: 01 June 2018
... colonial histories, and even narrating Blackness as surplus in the context of neoliberalizing urban US space. 7 In addition, global Model Minority discourse also tends to emphasize a cosmopolitan Asian diasporic sensibility that can reconsolidate settler colonial erasures. 8 In this essay, I build...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (3 (144)): 55–82.
Published: 01 September 2020
... on Palestinian indigeneity in the AJE videos. 29 The choice of site reinforces religion-based understandings of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in some ways obfuscating the mechanisms of Israeli settler colonialism. The medium attempts to recast viewers’ orientation to Jerusalem. In an email interview I...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (3 (160)): 27–52.
Published: 01 September 2024
... by Duke University Press 2024 Indigenous futurisms settler colonialism onto-epistemologies genre Teller wanted to know everything 1 by breaking it all apart atoms, hydrogen, Pikinni Atoll some people know more by knitting it all together binding, sewing, making order...
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Social Text (2025) 43 (2 (163)): 97–115.
Published: 01 June 2025
... of the colonizer. The settler (in cases of settler colonialism) or colonizer (in other forms of colonialism) is not expected to sacrifice their way of life in any meaningful way; they are just expected to make more room for other knowledge systems, or slowly and gradually decolonize. Thus, we turn to decolonize...