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Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 109–134.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Sinan Erensü; Barış İne; Yaşar Adnan Adanalı Abstract Ever since the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul in the summer 2013, defending and reclaiming the city parks, market gardens, public squares, and urban forests has become a mainstream act of defiance and a symbolic rejection of an intensifying...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 91–108.
Published: 01 March 2022
... urban forest Morro da Babilônia (Babilonia Hill), a favela near the famous Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is the site of a successful decade-long project of urban reforestation. The project results from an alliance between community, local government, and a large retail center...
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Social Text (2001) 19 (4 (69)): 29–51.
Published: 01 December 2001
... on the epic as a metalanguage for political commentary, critique, and reenvi- sioning of the imagined nation. In nationalist rhetoric, the central theme of four sections of the twenty-five hundred-year-old epic—the forest exile of Rama and Sita...
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Social Text (2001) 19 (2 (67)): 43–73.
Published: 01 June 2001
... entry into Marxism? The image I have is of a fresh Ph.D. in philosophy embarking on three generations of activism and struggle, but that is an image taken from the present to the past. Specifically, how was the Johnson-Forest Tendency a catalyst to your intellectual...
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Social Text (2017) 35 (1 (130)): 101–121.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., Restructuring, and Urban Poverty in Mexico.” The old man behind the podium has a whispery voice. After a few vague sentences about his life, he puts on his hat and walks slowly outside the frame. Another man, restless but weary, approaches the podium. Hands behind his back, he looks directly...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (1 (122)): 1–25.
Published: 01 March 2015
... the center of the court- yard must be equally audible in all surrounding dwellings.2 No walls surrounded Boven Digoel — no bastions, and not even a wire. There was a forest instead, huge with no roads. There was perma- nent twilight...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (1 (114)): 63–81.
Published: 01 March 2013
... of Albany, New York, currently offer training courses in radical urban sustainability designed to build 72 Dawson ∙ The Catastrophic Temporality of Green Capitalism autonomous energy infrastructures grounded in decentralized, egalitarian community mobilization...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 75–82.
Published: 01 December 2021
... with the search for the last oil, the last forests, and the last water. Figure 1. Still from Kowkülen ( Liquid Being , 2020). Figure 1. Still from Kowkülen (Liquid Being, 2020). Calfuqueo's body is not a metaphor, or a flattened aestheticization, but the literal materiality of this settler...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (3 (96)): 59–78.
Published: 01 September 2008
..., their movements resemble the wind blowing through the thick canopy of a forest. Extolled by Padre Marcelo as the biggest pneumatic cathedral on earth, the Amazon rainforest is the mag- nified expression of pneuma, one that has an ecological role in producing...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 39–67.
Published: 01 March 2022
.... Organizations such as UPROSE need to continue to engage the state, not simply to win the kind of ambitious just transition programs Yeampierre envisages, but for very basic reasons related to existing structures of social inequality on urban terrain. As her colleague Lourdes Pérez-Medina explains, since many...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 25–30.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of condensation. These are, respectively, the mine and the port. We will look at the characteristics of these zones and the means by which they are simultaneously kept separate and linked. The Mine “Natural” resources: the open pit mine, the oil field/fracking site, the timber forest, the oceans, the rare...
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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 (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 (2013) 31 (2 (115)): 123–143.
Published: 01 June 2013
... but through their capacity to make families. Such neoliberal humanism “naturalizes” urban survival against both the abstract forces of the state and capital and the residual forces of the organic world (the green forests of the park where Dave and Katie suf...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (4 (101)): 45–66.
Published: 01 December 2009
... and Kash- mir. The agitators were protesting against the Indian government’s retrac- tion of a grant of a hundred acres of forested land to the trustees of the Amarnath Shrine, an important Hindu pilgrimage center in Jammu and Kashmir — a retraction that was itself triggered by earlier protests...
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Social Text (2017) 35 (1 (130)): 1–15.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., How Forests Think . 49 See, e.g., Povinelli, Empire of Love ; Tsing, Mushroom at the End of the World . References Abu-Lughod Lila . 1993 . Writing Women’s Worlds: Bedouin Stories . Berkeley : University of California Press . Adams Vincanne . 2013 . Markets...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 157–164.
Published: 01 March 2022
... y Conservacion Ecologica de Intag/Intag Defense and Ecological Conservation group) to develop a written guide to support activists seeking to defend their communities against “extractivist” practices. DECOIN is based in the Intag cloud forest region of northwestern Ecuador, which is home to numerous...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (4 (117)): 79–97.
Published: 01 December 2013
... their attentions to communities of color — reservations, urban ghettos — at the psychological, economic, political, and cultural margins of mainstream US society. This essay engages an effort to completely reorient the concep- tualization and practice of field...
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Social Text (2001) 19 (2 (67)): 1–13.
Published: 01 June 2001
..., the “Johnson-Forest Tendency,” from previous positions on the “Negro Question” in the socialist movement—which tended to think of the struggles of black peoples against racism and oppression as subordinate to the class struggle...
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Social Text (2000) 18 (3 (64)): 47–66.
Published: 01 September 2000
... the production of a linear past-present-future relation (linear even as it curves back through the past) requires certain forms of subjectivity: a farmer who establishes a rural-urban progress narrative; a domesticated insinuation into gender in which a woman...