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Social Text (2006) 24 (3 (88)): 55–72.
Published: 01 September 2006
... of the processes shaping their work experiences.1 However, there is little research on the social practices and spaces where day laborers seek employment. This essay draws on fieldwork of primarily Latino immigrant men,2 who looked for work as day laborers at an infor- mal street-corner site in Brooklyn...
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Social Text (2017) 35 (4): 87–112.
Published: 01 December 2017
... with a discussion of social practice as it pertains to race in cities, situating Walker as a unique figure in this movement for having produced works that aggravate, rather than empower, her audience. Walker’s achievement has revealed the extent to which the debasement of others remains a central component...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (4 (129)): 19–40.
Published: 01 December 2016
..., has taken hold again so assertively of social expression and state practice. In the wake of the late modern, neoliberal displacement of racial authority from the public to private spheres and its erasure as a driving state modality of governing, formal (legal, bureaucratic, administrative) racial...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 55–60.
Published: 01 March 2018
... obfuscation of the fact that art is never separate from the social world to begin with). The consolidation of social practice as a genre of contemporary art may very well be a symptom of this, even as it first emerged to correct it. The abstractions to which social practice art and the discourse on it lend...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (2 (107)): 99–117.
Published: 01 June 2011
... the intent was to reduce the inequities of access to art and culture, both local and transna- tional, the actually lived social practice of local Filipinos in Manila remained constrained by institutional and sociospatial patterns...
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Social Text (2012) 30 (3 (112)): 49–75.
Published: 01 September 2012
... sociality of blackness attend to that formation’s contribution to the theory and practice of reinventing social life, it also awakens them to the fact that such reinven- tion disrupts notions of individual authorship, leadership, and closed social and aesthetic forms. James and Oiticica are deeply...
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Social Text (2017) 35 (3 (132)): 17–40.
Published: 01 September 2017
... to approaching it as a social practice involving not only texts but also people with often competing interests and goals. I am not, of course, the first theorist to find Cuba a particularly rich site from which to rethink the politics of allegory. In 1985, Fredric Jameson was invited by Cuban intellectuals...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 247–250.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Phillip Brian Harper Considering the intersections of theory, culture, and ideology in Social Text , this essay suggests that for all its interest in theory, the journal has never had a theory of theory, except for the proposition that insofar as theory explains practice it must derive from...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (4 (97)): 51–76.
Published: 01 December 2008
... analytical – engagement with racialized-sexualized imagery. In place of normative readings of racialized pornography, this paper offers a new reading practice – racial iconography – which examines the ways that pornography mobilizes race in particular social moments, under particular technological conditions...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (2 (155)): 19–44.
Published: 01 June 2023
... of as “activist curating.” A rich, disparate history waits to be pieced together of exhibition making in social movements. While there is a consistent history of movements producing their own archives, exhibition making has been a less consistent practice, outside of the more structurally instituted museums...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 147–151.
Published: 01 December 2015
..., and Daniel Z. Sui. 2012. “Researching Vol- unteered Geographic Information: Spatial Data, Geographic Research, and New Social Practice.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 102, no. 3: 571–90. Goodchild, Michael F...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (3 (160)): 75–100.
Published: 01 September 2024
... together to constitute social groups). The practice of reflection is equally situated in this view. This can create the conditions of embodied disconnection or separation for those marginalized by these practices by reifying emotional and sensorial differences, epistemic differences, experiential...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (1 (142)): 131–151.
Published: 01 March 2020
..., mobilize large numbers of people to participate in movements actively rather than solely participating online or through voting, and offer spaces to practice new social relations. The article looks at examples from efforts for migrant justice, police and prison abolition, disaster relief, and other...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (2 (123)): 99–120.
Published: 01 June 2015
... the claims of democracy; the affective labor of their “illegal” cultural forms has the potential to radically alter sociality amid an anti-Brown world by endowing migrants and other deportable subjects with ontological leverage as a practice of everyday life under terror. © 2015 Duke University Press 2015...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (1 (142)): 67–88.
Published: 01 March 2020
... confinement constitutes a site of neglect where women must fend for themselves to perform reproductive labor as a way to complete their sentence. This practice reveals new forms of social control and state surveillance in which judges, social workers, and penitentiaries determine which women are appropriate...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (1 (102)): 1–12.
Published: 01 March 2010
.... A significant objective is to bring attention to the ways modalities of social difference, such as race, gender, class, and ability, structure the practices of making and listening to recordings as well as the manners in which we think about those practices. Another purpose is to implode the ultimately...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (2 (107)): 1–19.
Published: 01 June 2011
... violence. As antiqueer violence is written in the social as an outlaw practice, I argue, via Frantz Fanon's reading of Hegel, that these forms of violence are not an aberration but are central to the reproduction of liberal democracy in the United States. Against redemption—violence is the province...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (2 (115)): 19–48.
Published: 01 June 2013
... of social reproduction that lies beyond contemporary modes of exploitation of life as living labor. Such life-­times consist of a diverse array of acts, capacities, associations, aspirations in practice, experiential modes, and sensibilities that people engage in, draw upon, and invent...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (4 (137)): 57–79.
Published: 01 December 2018
... of slavery threatens to replicate the death work of the slave ship register, black digital practice offers a way of thinking through black life by invoking what the #transformDH collective has described as the digital humanities’ potential for “social justice, accessibility, and inclusion.” It suggests...
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Social Text (2017) 35 (1 (130)): 79–99.
Published: 01 March 2017
... a space for reassembling a salvaged future, being at Walter Reed was a practice of biding time among bits and pieces, living through in-durable socialities of a precarious present rather than forging the solid contours of a world to come. At a broader social and cultural level, the conventionalized...