"toss that back / watch the candle / block it all out"--new poems by Serena Devi! | ow.ly/enXF50MAWwT
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Negar Razavi considers the growing number of experts claiming personal and familial ties to the Middle East who have joined elite foreign policy think tanks in Washington, DC, in an effort to shape US policy |
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Inderpal Grewal, Dipin Kaur, and Sasha Sabherwal examine the shifting nature of patriarchy and gender among Sikhs in Indian Punjab through the 1980s and into the 1990s in relation to the Indian state's counterinsurgent policies | ow.ly/kmhw50LLofa.
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Sahana Ghosh's article "Domestic Affairs: National Security and the Politics of Protest at India's 'Friendly' Borderlands" considers how protests and security regimes engage each other on the question of difference |
In "From the Sky to the Streets, and Back: Geographies of Imperial Warfare in East Africa," Samar Al-Bulushi examines the 2016 thriller *Eye in the Sky* and asks what it means to decenter the view from the imperial war room |
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Deborah A. Thomas's essay "Can Black Lives Matter in a Black Country?" probes the project of security (defined as the protection of whiteness, class hierarchy, and heteropatriarchy) in relation to the desire for safety. Read more here:
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Read the introduction to our new issue, "Security from the South: Intersections of Gender, Religion, and Race," by Samar Al-Bulushi, Sahana Ghosh, and Inderpal Grewal: ow.ly/1UCB50L7wpG (no paywall)
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Our new issue, "Security from the South," is now out. Edited by Samar Al-Bulushi, Sahana Ghosh, and Inderpal Grewal, the issue includes work by Deborah A. Thomas, Dipin Kaur, Sasha Sabherwal, and Negar Razavi as well as by the co-editors.
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Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou reviews *A People's Atlas of Nuclear Colorado,* a wide-ranging digital public humanities project that maps the many ways the nuclear arsenal has shaped the state of Colorado | ow.ly/Iptl50KTjty
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Ianna Hawkins Owen explores the productive overlap between asexuality's nonsexual pleasures associated with food and feedism's sexual pleasures associated with eating in "More: Cake, Feedism, and Asexuality" |
![Figure 1. “Why have sex when there is [cake]?” San Francisco, June 27, 2010. Courtesy of David Jay. Cropped with permission for the privacy of the poster holder.](https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1624475059116027905/Qp78lI5E?format=png&name=900x900)
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Jorge Sánchez Cruz's article "Debility, Negative Affect, Mobility: Undocuqueer Aesthetics and the Right to Thrive" is now out |
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Mitja Velikonja's article “'New Others': Ideological Images of Refugees in Present-Day Slovenia," on anti-refugee graffiti, is now up at Social Text |
Renyi Hong's "Telecommuting Pedagogies: White Plasticity and the Ecological Imaginaries of Working from Home" examines telecommuting discourse of the 1980s and 90s |
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Jennifer C. Nash's new article "Slow Loss: Black Feminism and Endurance" is currently freely available (no paywall) | ow.ly/3lLl50Kh7v9
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Social Text 151 features work by Jennifer C. Nash, Renyi Hong, Mitja Velikonja, Jorge Sánchez Cruz, and Ianna Hawkins Owen | out now at
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David N. Pellow interviewed by Marco Armiero and Salvatore Paolo De Rosa, part of our new special issue Urban Climate Insurgency |
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Salvatore Paolo De Rosa on fossil fuels, direct action, and the tactic of the blockade |
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Sinan Erensü, Barış İne, & Yaşar Adnan Adanalı's article "From the Occupied Parks to the Gardens of the Nation" explores green aesthetics in Istanbul & their potential for conjuring alternative environmental imaginaries |
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Lise Sedrez & Roberta Biasillo's "Rooting Out Injustices from the Top" explores a reforestation effort in Brazil & its role in mitigating the effects of climate change & legitimating ownership claims by the local community |
Marco Armiero writes about histories of struggle against waste contamination in Naples, arguing that these struggles provide a framework for understanding and organizing against climate change |
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Ashley Dawson and Macarena Gómez-Barris envision a postextractive energy transition in our new issue, Urban Climate Insurgency |
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AbdouMaliq Simone and Solomon Benjamin consider urban politics and climate change in Jakarta and Bangalore |
Social Text 150, "Urban Climate Insurgency," edited by Ashley Dawson, Marco Armiero, Ethemcan Turhan, and Roberta Biasillo, is now out! Read the introduction here: ow.ly/W3Bf50JEXe5 (No paywall)
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Two new poems by Chris Campanioni now up a ST Online: "Can’t a book, too, be a VHS? Can I make a book of scraps to replace the text proper (the proper text)?" | ow.ly/8V6O50JaSVh
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Gabrielle Daniels interviewed by Jamie Townsend | ow.ly/q8pa50J1Hsc
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"here’s a place for you, here’s a place for us, here’s a place for everyone to eat sleep and fuck and live...." Two poems by Jo Barchi up at ST Online | socialtextjournal.org/two-poems-3/
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Special issue editors Jayna Brown and Neferti X. M. Tadiar discuss our new issue 2020: Sociality at the End of the World |
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Candice Lin and C. Riley Snorton in conversation, discussing the history of gynecology, Lin's recent work, & other topics. Occasioned by our recent special issue *Sexology and Its Afterlives* | ow.ly/VyAy50IRvgk
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Our new special issue, 2020: Sociality at the End of the World, is now out. This issue is collaborative & written by scholars, artists, & activists from different locations--a time capsule of suffering, resistance, & dreaming together amidst the isolation of 2020
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Max Haiven has edited a dossier on revenge, capitalism, debt, & narrative fantasy in conjunction with his book *Revenge Capitalism.* W/ Bedour Alagraa, S. L. Lim, Anna-Esther Younes, Eunsong Kim, & Hannah Appel & Frances Negrón-Muntaner | ow.ly/JsCQ50IPT9R
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Andrea Abi-Karam and Jasbir K. Puar discuss *Villainy,* *The Right to Maim,* and resonances in their work |
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Duke UP has put together a syllabus of recent work in critical university studies, including ST's special issue Educational Undergrowth. All freely available (no paywall) through 3/31 | ow.ly/JUwS50HJNWv
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Thought-provoking piece on slavery and data, #dighist. Had a great discussion on this in my #DigitalHistory course thanks to 's "Markup Bodies" (2018) .
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if my column has been on hiatus for most of this month it is because i was working on this essay on a topic that has interested me for a while: the ethical questions around, and challenges of, quantifying something like the slave trade nytimes.com/2022/01/28/opi
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Join Sexology and Its Afterlives special issue editors and contributors for an online launch and conversation! Tuesday 11/16 at 8pm EST/5pm Pacific
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Since *West Side Story* is in the news lately, we're opening up Frances Negrón-Muntaner's article "Feeling Pretty: West Side Story and Puerto Rican Identity" for free download | ow.ly/nsRo50GJIWP
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Social Text congratulates collective member David Eng on receiving the 2021 Kessler Award! David will give the annual Kessler Lecture on 12/2, from 6-8pm EST. Register here:
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Join Sexology and Its Afterlives special issue editors and contributors for an online launch and conversation! Tuesday 11/16 at 8pm EST/5pm Pacific
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Barrett White reviews Joey Yearous-Algozin's new book *A Feeling Called Heaven*--generation loss, environmental destruction, death doulas, and Pauline Oliveros | ow.ly/Biqx50GlCjI
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Planning your order for our fall sale? Don't forget to add journal issues to your cart—here are some that are going fast! Use code FALL21 for 50% off in-stock books & issues: ow.ly/x4W650GjDpB
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