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Intermittent Grids
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2017) 116 (2): 327–343.
Published: 01 April 2017
... at carbon emissions today. Their work might push us toward undoing the massive infrastructures of the grid to think about other ways of living together in a time of tipping points, transitions, and catastrophic effects. © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 climate change mitigation grid The Working...
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Anti-Trans Optics: Recognition, Opacity, and the Image of Force
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2017) 116 (3): 612–620.
Published: 01 July 2017
..., as constituted by anti-trans and anti-black optics. Against this scene stands Time magazine naming 2014 as the “Trans Tipping Point.” I trace how positive representation, which is to say the methodology of assimilation, is offered as the primary, and perhaps exclusive, space of struggle. In contrast, through...
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The Fear We Feel Everyday: Affective Temporalities in Fridays for Future
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2023) 122 (1): 203–214.
Published: 01 January 2023
... mobilized by Fridays for Future and Youth for Climate activists: the political potential of affective tipping points which trigger moments that “draw a line” and bring together the temporalities of mobilization and geological change; the politicizing effect of painful emotions, such as anticipatory...
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Introduction: What Moment for Climate Activism?
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2023) 122 (1): 172–180.
Published: 01 January 2023
... Timothy M. , Rockström Johan , Gaffney Owen , Rahmstorf Stefan , Richardson Katherine , Steffen Will , and Schellnhuber Hans Joachim . 2019 . “ Climate Tipping Points—Too Risky to Bet Against .” Nature 575 : 592 – 96 . Mann Michael . 2021 . The New...
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Introduction
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2017) 116 (3): 606–611.
Published: 01 July 2017
... back
LGBT recognition, including transgender health coverage and antidiscrim
ination laws. Since Trump was elected, the trans communities I inhabit in
the United States have expressed fear and outrage at the possibility that the
“transgender tipping point” might be about to tip back. Diana...
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Autistic Disruptions, Trans Temporalities: A Narrative “Trap Door” in Time
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2021) 120 (2): 343–361.
Published: 01 April 2021
... Don’t: Essays from an Unstrange Mind . Unstrange Publications . Sparrow Maxfield . 2020 . Spectrums: Autistic Transgender People in Their Own Words . London : Jessica Kingsley Press . Steinmetz K. 2014 . “ The Transgender Tipping Point .” Time Magazine , May 29 . time.com...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2017) 116 (1): 129–143.
Published: 01 January 2017
... for a new world. When, today, notions of closed windows and
tipping points are met with an insistence that there is always a future to come
and that there is always a humanity that cannot be contained by the pessi-
mism of the Anthropocene, it is this same sense of passing through the vor-
tex...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2017) 116 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 January 2017
..., keeling curves, radiative forcing,
ecoacoustics, fitness landscapes, orbital wobbles, particles per million, Anthropo-
cene epigenetics, deep history, species, geological force, zoecentric, tipping points,
feedforward and feedback loops—if Raymond Williams were writing Keywords
today, these would...
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A Race Against the Clock? On the Paradoxes of Acting “Now” in the Climate Struggle
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2023) 122 (1): 192–202.
Published: 01 January 2023
... discourses displayed in the showrooms of the Glasgow climate conference. The latter exemplify empty conceptions of time, mapped spatially in gradual timelines, with moveable deadlines and a predictable range of future outcomes. There might be thresholds or tipping points, but these are merely of a physical...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2024) 123 (2): 363–384.
Published: 01 April 2024
... to build, to acquire, resulting in a profusion of tipping points through which projects fail, come, and go. The rapidity of land conversions coupled with the obdurate resistances performed through varying logics of claim (spiritual, ancestral, dissimulative), the dissipation of interest in particular sites...
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Media Metaphorology: Irritations in the Epistemic Field of Media Studies
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2002) 101 (3): 659–672.
Published: 01 July 2002
... of the electric sign be understood ontologically or metaphorically—
or neither? Burckhardt’s definition approaches the tipping point between
metaphor and concept, and in the transition from the alphanumeric to the
electric sign, everything is on the same level: ‘‘The computer could care less
whether...
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The Pullman Porter: From “George” to Brotherhood
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1974) 73 (2): 224–235.
Published: 01 April 1974
... by the prac tice of tipping for extra service. The abuses of this custom were attacked in the earliest porter agitation.11 The Pullman Company naturally encouraged tipping because it enabled them to find men willing to work for low wages. The company-sponsored Pullman Porters Benefit Association condemned...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2016) 115 (2): 247–265.
Published: 01 April 2016
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and after: whereas previously the common good was supposed to give rise to
evils that were its own collateral damage, now we have to recognize that good
and evil are contemporaneous. Virilio pushed this logic of contemporaneous-
ness to the tipping point when he showed that in contemporary society...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2017) 116 (1): 19–31.
Published: 01 January 2017
...). Because of that, our lineage has been
unique in the power its cultures have exerted to point the direction of niche
construction. As this power increased, the scope of the aspects of the envi-
ronment affected by hominin niche construction expanded. Early humans
using stone-tipped spears to kill...
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Introduction: Widening the Space of Politics
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2024) 123 (1): 183–191.
Published: 01 January 2024
... dictatorship (Bernasconi 2019 ) offered Ricardo a historical referent for the political and ethical tipping point that pushed him to join the uprising, becoming part of the history of the present (Revel 2015 ). In parallel, the social uprising activated the time of student protests and working-class...
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Service Work, Sex Work, and the “Prostitute Imaginary”
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2021) 120 (3): 493–514.
Published: 01 July 2021
... to both. The authors take up one of those features in particular: the use of tip-based or piece-rate methods of wage payment. They explore the history of this insecure and informalized wage form not only to track the systematization of hyperexploitation in the service sector, but also to unearth a history...
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Mapuche Anticolonial Politics and Chile's Social Uprising
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2024) 123 (1): 214–224.
Published: 01 January 2024
... of prisoners, or in protest against the raids that were inflicted on communities linked to the Mapuche movement. At this point, in 2009, Jaime Mendoza Collío was killed. Mendoza was a member of the Requem Pillan indigenous community, in the Ercilla district of the Araucanía. His murder proved to be a tipping...
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Guam: Protests at the Tip of America's Spear
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2017) 116 (1): 174–183.
Published: 01 January 2017
... the most recent instance whereby the United States intends to “sharpen” what its military planners have referred to as “the tip of their spear” leveled against potential threats in Asia. The increased military presence as well as proposed firing and training ranges would have significantly impacted...
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Mass Support for Power Politics
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2006) 105 (1): 217–240.
Published: 01 January 2006
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The 1980s mark the beginning of a fundamental tipping point: a move
toward domestic and foreign policies that increasingly sacrifice the well-
being of the citizens and the territory of the United States in the name of an
abstract conception of the national interest.With this shift, the organization...
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Jump City: Parkour and the Traces
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2008) 107 (2): 251–263.
Published: 01 April 2008
... wandering.
The quirky, off-piste body involved in capers and high jinks downtown—
often in privileged, relatively safe Western cities—might seem ephemeral.
Depending on the definition of urban, in 2007, about half of the world’s
people lived in cities. Worldwide, capital city is at the tipping point...
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