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“What Would Said Say?”: REFLECTIONS ON TRADITION, IMPERIALISM, AND GLOBALISM
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Social Text (2006) 24 (2 (87)): 21–33.
Published: 01 June 2006
...Sura P. Rath Duke University Press 2006 “What Would Said Say?”
Reflections on Tr adition, Imperi alism, and Globalism
Lately there has been much loose talk about tradition. Whether the rise Sura P. Rath...
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Black Folk in English Folk
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Social Text (2025) 43 (1 (162)): 91–113.
Published: 01 March 2025
... such singers as Doris Henderson and Nadia Catouse and the innovative guitarist Davey Graham. An attention to these overlooked contributions to English music attempts to recover the postcolonial history of English folk music and how performers of color shaped the folk tradition here often while exceeding narrow...
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The Labor Factor in the Creative Economy: A Marxist Reading
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Social Text (2009) 27 (2 (99)): 55–76.
Published: 01 June 2009
...Laikwan Pang This paper offers a Marxist analysis of the creative agency conceptualized by the new creative economy. Analyzing the differences and continuities between the creative economy and the traditional industrial economy, I explore how creative labor is selectively invested with the logics...
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Worlding Oneness: Daoism, Heidegger, and Possibilities for Treating the Human
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Social Text (2011) 29 (4 (109)): 107–128.
Published: 01 December 2011
... of traditional Chinese medicine, this essay explores possibilities for thinking, doing, and being human that unsettle various strategies of bifurcation both constitutive and symptomatic of modernist humanism. The exploration unfolds through, first, an examination of the historical and conceptual congruence...
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History Is What Hurts: On Old Materialism
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Social Text (2016) 34 (2 (127)): 125–141.
Published: 01 June 2016
..., if not in word then in deed. This article makes the argument explicitly: Jameson is an ontological thinker; he proposes a specific structure of being, a structure that, while rooted in the Kantian tradition, nevertheless inverts that tradition in favor of a more materialist core. Copyright © Duke University...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (3 (104)): 1–10.
Published: 01 September 2010
..., transnational scholarship is responding to contemporary crises of place. Unable to look away from the violence of the border, and as neoliberalism has extended the reaches of misery, work that refuses traditional spatial distinctions is “centering” the fact of violence. The introduction calls this new spatial...
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Embodied Forms of State Domination: Gender and the Camp Grant Massacre
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Social Text (2010) 28 (3 (104)): 91–117.
Published: 01 September 2010
... communities across Southern Arizona, it argues that several displacements happen in the traditional historical narratives of the Camp Grant massacre: the erasure of participation by Tucsonense indigenous Mexican women in the violence against Aravaipa and Pinal Apache women and the discursive violence enacted...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (4 (109)): 1–27.
Published: 01 December 2011
..., the essay also refuses to re-essentialize Chinese otherness as an alternative. At the same time, it traces alternative cosmologies and discourses of Chinese humanism and anti-humanism, informed by Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism, as well as other religious and political traditions. In addition...
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Paranoid Readings and Ambivalent Allegories in Cuban Cinema
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Social Text (2017) 35 (3 (132)): 17–40.
Published: 01 September 2017
... artists and audiences themselves mobilize the mode. This is especially true for Global South, state socialist, and authoritarian contexts, where traditions of political engagement through art, practices of skirting censorship through aesthetic indirection, and demands for depictions of the nation imposed...
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The Settler Unchained: Constituent Power and Settler Violence
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Social Text (2015) 33 (3 (124)): 1–18.
Published: 01 September 2015
... address to the National Rifle Association, Antonio Negri's monograph Insurgencies: Constituent Power and the Modern State , and Quentin Tarantino's film Django Unchained —it explores how European and Euro-American imaginings of constituent power can serve to reinforce settler colonial political traditions...
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Logistics Genealogies: A Dialogue with Stefano Harney
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Social Text (2018) 36 (3 (136)): 95–110.
Published: 01 September 2018
... tradition. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 logistics logistical capitalism Atlantic slave trade access surveillance improvement usufruct counterlogistics logisticality hapticality We are imagining this conversation as a historical progression about the logistics...
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Mapping a Slave Revolt: Visualizing Spatial History through the Archives of Slavery
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 134–141.
Published: 01 December 2015
... and about the importance of the landscape to the course of the uprising. No less important, the project highlights the difficulty of representing such events cartographically with available sources. Maintaining historians' traditional emphasis on primary sources, attention to change over time...
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Siphoning and Sabotage: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and US Electricity Theft
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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 125–151.
Published: 01 December 2022
... Blackness and electricity. Going beyond a traditional literary close reading, this essay triangulates a reading of Invisible Man with a history of General Electric's “electric Slave” advertisements from the interwar period and concludes with an analysis of a 2010 WXYZ‐TV Detroit news segment focused...
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“Spirit in Opposition”: Malcolm X and the Question of Palestine
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Social Text (2019) 37 (3): 47–71.
Published: 01 September 2019
... liberation movements explicitly rendered Palestine a referent of the Black Radical Tradition. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 References Achcar Gilbert . The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives . New York : Metropolitan Books , 2010 . Alhassen...
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When Home Is a Camp: Global Sovereignty, Biopolitics, and Internally Displaced Persons
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Social Text (2008) 26 (1 (94)): 29–58.
Published: 01 March 2008
... is fundamentally bio-political insofar as it engenders the conditions of possibility for displacement through the transformations it effects on the traditional nation state, and then offers a salve for displacement through the empty form of humanitarian law. Between the abdication of national responsibility...
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Left Out: Afro-Latinos, Black Baseball, and the Revision of Baseball's Racial History
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Social Text (2009) 27 (1 (98)): 37–58.
Published: 01 March 2009
... the problem of the color line in baseball and interrogates how the writing of black baseball history—itself a revision of the traditional narrative of U.S. professional baseball—has often obfuscated the place of Afro-Latinos. Rather than examining the history of African Americans and Latinos in baseball...
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The Queer Social Text
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 215–218.
Published: 01 September 2009
... needs to conceptualize itself in relation to a larger tradition of Left critical thought. © 2009 Duke University Press 2009 Peer Review
Stanley Aronowitz: We didn’t want a peer-reviewed journal. It would be
peer review only in the sense that the collective would review it. But we
were...
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Queer Theory and the Specter of Materialism
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Social Text (2020) 38 (4 (145)): 25–47.
Published: 01 December 2020
... the epistemological foundation for canonical texts in queer theory that do not appear to be concerned with Marxism, such as those of Butler and Sedgwick; it also serves as the conceptual fulcrum for a number of “queer Marxist” projects that attempt to synthesize these two traditions. This article concludes...
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The Aura of Authenticity
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Social Text (2000) 18 (3 (64)): 87–103.
Published: 01 September 2000
... links to the narrative traditions in which
the ascendancy of Europe and its encounters with non-European cultures
and peoples continue to be told and retold.2 Guha produces a gestalt shift
in our understanding of anticolonial nationalism by pointing out that its...
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Trial by Fire: GENDER, POWER, AND CITIZENSHIP IN NARRATIVES OF THE NATION
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Social Text (2001) 19 (4 (69)): 29–51.
Published: 01 December 2001
.... 2000 . Untouchable freedom: The social history of a Dalit community . New Delhi: Oxford University Press. Raghavan, V., ed. 1980 . The Ramayana tradition in Asia . New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi. Rajagopal, A. 2001 . Politics after television: Hindu nationalism and the reshaping of the public...
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