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Social Text (2007) 25 (4 (93)): 91–114.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Priscilla Archibald © 2007 Duke University Press 2007 Urban Transculturations
The statistics at this point are familiar. Since the 1960s, the world’s popu- Priscilla Archibald
lation has doubled in size, a growth...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (2 (95)): 1–12.
Published: 01 June 2008
...Kamran Asdar Ali; Martina Rieker Drawing on the larger project of the Shehr Network on Comparative Urban Landscapes, the articles in this issue seek to revisit conceptually and theoretically the question of marginality in the production of contemporary urban cartographies in the Middle East...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (2 (95)): 61–81.
Published: 01 June 2008
...Lisa Taraki The Palestinian town of Ramallah, possibly on the lowest rung of urban hierarchies in the region, is a peripheral town trying to become a city on the fringes of the Arab world. Its nascent new middle class partakes enthusiastically in the trans-Arab, urban, middle-class ethos elaborated...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (4 (97)): 31–50.
Published: 01 December 2008
... of the Artist as a Young Man , Henry Roth's Call It Sleep , Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man , and centrally, Patrick Chamoiseau's Texaco all connect with one another through a preoccupation with electricity as an akasic medium for the creation of urban imagined communities. The essay further deals with public...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (2 (99)): 25–53.
Published: 01 June 2009
...John Patrick Leary This essay explores the politics of representation in contemporary Venezuelan television, which in its mainstream forms has produced an urban imaginary that models national citizenship on the geographic, class, and racial divisions of the Venezuelan metropolis. The nation's...
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Published: 01 June 2016
Figure 6 Urban Mirror, I (Heart) Nairobi . 2009–ongoing. Documentation photograph. ©Silvia Gioiello. Courtesy of Urban Mirror
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Published: 01 June 2016
Figure 7 Urban Mirror, I (Heart) Nairobi . 2009–ongoing. Documentation photograph. ©Silvia Gioiello. Courtesy of Urban Mirror
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in From the Occupied Parks to the Gardens of the Nation: Politics and Aesthetics of Urban Greenery in Post-Gezi Istanbul
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Published: 01 March 2022
Figure 2. Some urban greening interventions in Istanbul in the aftermath of Gezi uprising in 2013. Map by Deniz Öztürk, Center for Spatial Justice, Istanbul.
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Social Text (2017) 35 (4): 87–112.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Nicholas Gamso This article addresses a crucial dimension of urban development: the recruitment of minority artists in the gentrification of space. The argument is that the production and exploitation of racial difference have underwritten the creative economy’s spurious claims to inclusion...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 21–38.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of land and municipal services. These processes of majority-inflected urbanization are being substantially constrained both by the restructuring of urban rule and economy and by the exigencies of climate change. At the same time, there are often undue expectations that grassroots movements...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 135–155.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Salvatore Paolo De Rosa Abstract This article discusses the politics of direct action against fossil fuels put forward by climate justice movements, focusing in particular on the tactic of the blockade. Drawing on the conceptual toolkit of urban political ecology, the argument moves from a critique...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 1–20.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Ashley Dawson; Marco Armiero; Ethemcan Turhan; Roberta Biasillo Abstract Urban climate insurgency refers to the ensemble of grassroots initiatives aiming to tackle climate change from a radical point of view. Insurgency in this case does not imply violence but rather refers to the radical rejection...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 109–134.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Figure 2. Some urban greening interventions in Istanbul in the aftermath of Gezi uprising in 2013. Map by Deniz Öztürk, Center for Spatial Justice, Istanbul. ...
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Social Text (2004) 22 (4 (81)): 91–112.
Published: 01 December 2004
...Brian Larkin Duke University Press 2004 Bandiri Music, Globalization, and Urban Experience in Nigeria
Beside Kofar Nassarawa, a gate to the mud wall that once ringed the Brian Larkin
Muslim heart of Kano, a city in northern Nigeria, there is a mai gyara...
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Social Text (2000) 18 (1 (62)): 31–54.
Published: 01 March 2000
...Andy Merrifield 2. merrifield 2/11/00 10:50 AM Page 31
The Urbanization of Labor
LIVING-WAGE ACTIVISM IN THE AMERICAN CITY
For well over a decade now, practically...
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Social Text (2017) 35 (2 (131)): 69–90.
Published: 01 June 2017
... and sensation, an indefinite urbanism. John Divola’s photo series Los Angeles International Airport Noise Abatement Zone ( LAX NAZ ) of homes in the flight path slated for demolition visualize the atmospheric quality of this process. Photographer John Divola titled his 1976 series of vacant houses around...
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Social Text (2004) 22 (4 (81)): 9–15.
Published: 01 December 2004
...Mike Davis Mike Davis. 2004 The Urbanization of Empire
MEGACITIES AND THE LAWS OF CHAOS
The Old Imperialism Mike Davis
The great...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (3 (116)): 147–158.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Patrick Deer The embrace of the city in ruins was a familiar rallying cry of punk music. From Public Image Limited’s evocation of an urban subject murdered in the countryside while “the cassette played poptones,” to the Clash’s raucous calls for “a riot of our own,” to dub-influenced declarations...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 149–180.
Published: 01 December 2021
... of urban signs—flashing images, sounds of silence and emergency vehicles, Whatsapp chatter, billboards, found objects, and media noise—to reflect on experiences that are both deeply personal and embodied as well as reflective of a common urban predicament. Even as the pandemic exacerbated problems...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (2 (95)): 35–59.
Published: 01 June 2008
...Sandya Hewamanne The rapid urbanization and industrialization of Katunayake resulting from transnational production at the Free Trade Zone (FTZ) and related globalized sociocultural flows affected the lived experiences of citizens in this new urban space in varied ways. The vast majority of FTZ...
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