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Social Text (2024) 42 (4 (161)): 33–49.
Published: 01 December 2024
... material channels of communication are important for spatial thinking on prisons. The social networks, clandestine maneuvers, and legal loopholes that led to the book's publication all signal how the prison bears creative insurgent pathways within its architecture of racist incapacitation. Jackson's...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 147–151.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Claudio Saunt The spatial and cartographic turn in the humanities invites experimentation with new modes of historical storytelling. Those modes—interactive, participatory, and ever evolving—may redefine our vision of scholarship by creating innovative ways to distribute and create historical...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (1 (158)): 27–51.
Published: 01 March 2024
... in nature: while there was an outside (the enemy), there was no outside to the conflict itself. As such, the overarching spatial imaginary of the world was decisively Manichaean, black and white. Underlying this dichotomy was an insistence on identitarian thinking. There was no room for the nonidentical...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 134–141.
Published: 01 December 2015
..., but it applies just as easily to conceptions of historical space. Fortunately, there has lately been a spatial, even a cartographic emphasis in humanistic and social scientific study that encourages schol- ars to think more explicitly about how...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (3 (148)): 37–54.
Published: 01 September 2021
... of stalling and turning and of the spatial imaginaries that make these actions both necessary and legible in a variety of contexts—of watching pelicans dive into the Pacific Ocean, living on the grounds of the Dachau concentration camp, encountering transphobic feminism, researching San Francisco's urban...
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Social Text (2005) 23 (3-4 (84-85)): 193–217.
Published: 01 December 2005
.... Nevertheless, I hope that the project it initiates—reconceptu- alizing spatial imaginaries through the lens of a queer of color aesthetics and politics—can remain an important starting point for reconfiguring the representational strategies of our queer interventions...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (3 (116)): 57–73.
Published: 01 September 2013
... that establishes cantina time—as musically represented by the spatiality of Girl in a Coma’s music video and Piñata Protest’s song “Cantina”—an afterlife of punk emerges. The reorganization of space-time occurs through the re-assemblage of instruments such as the Tex-Mex button accordion, Spanglish, and cantinera...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (4 (145)): 125–147.
Published: 01 December 2020
..., gender, and sexuality are relationally and iteratively crafted as social and spatial arrangements. I really appreciate and think with Snorton’s assertion in Black on Both Sides that gender and sex are racial arrangements. 8 If we consider the kinds of places where antitrans criminalization and queer...
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Social Text (2017) 35 (4): 87–112.
Published: 01 December 2017
... this art is meant to critique”. 4 However, A Subtlety was less a critique of such behavior than an indictment of its repression in the many anodyne representations of progress and overcoming that characterize the liberal, urban imagination. 5 The work was a spatial allegory for the violence...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (3 (148)): 1–16.
Published: 01 September 2021
... the conditions of possibility for minoritarian survival. Centering an analysis of institutionalization through its spatial arrangements and material forms, rather than its signal genres like the case study or patient file, this issue turns to sexology not to recover or rehabilitate its violent history...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 155–160.
Published: 01 March 2018
... where we started, with prepositions. We came to the writing of this collective issue with nothing more than a title, a provisional one at that, and one we ultimately chose to set aside: “After Globalism.” After is a temporal preposition; we might, equally, have chosen a spatial one, say, “ Beyond...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (4 (129)): 111–138.
Published: 01 December 2016
... thinking of infrastructure in the way Achille Mbembe describes the spatiality of apartheid and occupation in South Africa and Palestine as a form of racial social control. While he astutely points out spatial divisions and boundary making through walls, roads, and camps, 9 I also gesture to how...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (2 (127)): 109–124.
Published: 01 June 2016
....) In a crucial and arresting passage, Jameson advances what I think is the nucleus of a powerful and far more precise (if not exhaustive) updating of the problem of cognitive mapping than the one advanced in Postmodernism and contiguous texts, 26 which links the spatializing dynamics of constant capital...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 59–68.
Published: 01 December 2014
... of José’s thinking of brownness as sense, a sense composed of a materiality that endures despite an end. The force behind José’s critical thinking of sense and brownness is like his other writings in that they all reconstruct and participate in the scene of pedagogy by extending pedagogy beyond...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (2 (107)): 21–46.
Published: 01 June 2011
... party organ”6 to the stable viewing field of the living room, this essay pursues television as a spatial practice that extends across media forms and social space. An instructive cue...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (2 (123)): 83–98.
Published: 01 June 2015
..., “ordered by a spatial logic (‘placed’) and yields differences as much today as a century ago.” In his book Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect, Sampson further argues that “spatially inscribed social differences...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (3 (104)): 1–10.
Published: 01 September 2010
... that the Americas have offered particularly fertile ground for spatially innovative thinking. Scholars of North and South America have at hand a long history of the regions’ mutually constitutive relationship, as was evident at the conference where...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 105–113.
Published: 01 December 2014
... it continually moves and inhabits. With the kernels of potentiality that St. Jude offers, this essay also moves alongside Muñoz’s writing and thinking from queer utopia to brown feelings. “Time after time” does not just invoke a sense of pastness, a condition of postness, or the implication that we are living...
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Social Text (2001) 19 (4 (69)): 93–113.
Published: 01 December 2001
..., and area vocational schools, which have redesigned their curricula to suit the corporations’ requirements for engineers and other technical staff. As ORION’s human resource manager, Paula, put it: “We think Ciudad Juárez can become the next...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (3): 73–92.
Published: 01 September 2019
... Israelis , details the vital role that stolen Palestinian properties served in facilitating the settlement of new Jewish immigrants in the years immediately after Israel establishment and the expulsion of the Palestinians in 1948 (73–81). 23 For a perceptive examination of spatial and racial control...
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