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“Variations under Domestication”: Indigeneity and the Subject of Dispossession

Jodi A. Byrd
Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 123–141.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-4362397
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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The Settler Unchained: Constituent Power and Settler Violence

Alex Trimble Young
Social Text (2015) 33 (3 (124)): 1–18.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3125680
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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Beyond Land Acknowledgment in Settler Institutions

Theresa Stewart-Ambo, K. Wayne Yang
Social Text (2021) 39 (1 (146)): 21–46.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-8750076
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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Edward Said’s Home, Martin Buber’s Mailbox: The “Terrible Silences” of Israeli Colonial Jerusalem

Thomas Abowd
Social Text (2019) 37 (3): 73–92.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-7585062
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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Hip Hop from ’48 Palestine: Youth, Music, and the Present/Absent

Sunaina Maira, Magid Shihade
Social Text (2012) 30 (3 (112)): 1–26.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-1597314
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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Settler Modernity, Debt Imperialism, and the Necropolitics of the Promise

Jodi Kim
Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 41–61.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-4362349
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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Stock Histories

KT Thompson
Social Text (2019) 37 (1 (138)): 107–115.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-7286288
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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The Ground Not Given: Colonial Dispositions of Land, Race, and Hunger

Alyosha Goldstein
Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 83–106.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-4362373
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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We Deportees: Race, Religion, and War on Palestine’s No-Man’s-Land

Emily Drumsta, Keith P. Feldman
Social Text (2016) 34 (4 (129)): 87–110.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3680882
Published: 01 December 2016
... against the linkage between settler colonial dispossession and the Westphalian trinity of nation, state, and territory. Copyright © 2016 Duke University Press 2016 resistance literature settler colonialism refugeehood imperial sovereignty Palestine In a February 1993 essay titled “Islam...
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The Israel/Palestine Field School: Decoloniality and the Geopolitics of Knowledge

Alex Lubin, Les W. Field, Melanie K. Yazzie, Jakob Schiller
Social Text (2013) 31 (4 (117)): 79–97.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2348995
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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Predatory Value: Economies of Dispossession and Disturbed Relationalities

Jodi A. Byrd, Alyosha Goldstein, Jodi Melamed, Chandan Reddy
Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 1–18.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-4362325
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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I was dreaming when i wrote this: A mixtape for America

Kristen L. Simmons, Kaya Naomi Williams
Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 145–164.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-4362409
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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Style, Tsotsi -style, and Tsotsitaal : The Histories, Aesthetics, and Politics of a South African Figure

Rosalind C. Morris
Social Text (2010) 28 (2 (103)): 85–112.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2009-068
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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What’s Normative Got to Do with It?: Toward Indigenous Queer Relationality

Jodi A. Byrd
Social Text (2020) 38 (4 (145)): 105–123.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-8680466
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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History Hesitant

Lisa Lowe
Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 85–107.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3315790
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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Speculative Surplus: Asian American Racialization and the Neoliberal Shift

Grace Kyungwon Hong
Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 107–122.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-4362385
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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Postspatial, Postcolonial: Accessing Palestine in the Digital

Meryem Kamil
Social Text (2020) 38 (3 (144)): 55–82.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-8352247
Published: 01 September 2020
... on Muslim identity and second 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...
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Introduction: Left of Queer

David L. Eng, Jasbir K. Puar
Social Text (2020) 38 (4 (145)): 1–24.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-8680414
Published: 01 December 2020
... to subjectless critique by drawing attention to the paradoxical (im)materiality of the ground—the dispossession of land that facilitates not only the emergence of the settler colonial state but also the grounds for the figuration of political subjects of representation. For Indigenous studies, subjectless...
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Stained University: Reckoning with Duke's Nexus of Higher Education and Tobacco Capitalism

Jaime Acosta Gonzalez, Eli Meyerhoff
Social Text (2021) 39 (1 (146)): 93–123.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-8750124
Published: 01 March 2021
... . Bruyneel Kevin . “ Creolizing Collective Memory: Refusing the Settler Memory of the Reconstruction Era .” Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy 25 , no. 2 ( 2017 ): 36 – 44 . Bruyneel Kevin . “ Race, Colonialism, and the Politics of Indian Sports Names and Mascots: The Washington...
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Into the Fluid Heart of Wallmapu Territory: Macarena Gómez-Barris in Conversation with Sebástian Calfuqueo

Macarena Gómez-Barris, Sebástian Calfuqueo
Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 75–82.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9408098
Published: 01 December 2021
... Kauanui has called enduring Indigeneity, to name the capacity of Indigenous peoples to resist, persist, and refuse the death drive of settler colonialism, as well as the operative logic of settler colonialism in its militarized march to eliminate the Native. Here, Calfuqueo's Indigenous nonbinary body...
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