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Two new poems from Syd Zolf, up now at ST Online | socialtextjournal.org/two-po…
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Les Back & Stevie Back's essay "Black Folk in English Folk" examines how folk music here is shaped by narrow associations with whiteness & nationalism & how this is being opened with contemporary debates about Englishness, racism, & music | read.dukeupress.edu/social-t…

Black Folk in English Folk

Abstract. In 2009 the British National Party caused outrage by placing English folk songs on its website. The result within the folk scene was the Folk Against Fascism movement and a critical...

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Tariq Jazeel's new essay reconstructs a historical geography of late 90s New Asian Kool | read.dukeupress.edu/social-t…

“This Is Not the Sound of the Asian Underground”: On the Borders of Britain's New Asian Kool,...

Abstract. This article reconstructs a recent historical geography of the late 1990s genre of British Asian dance music that became known as “New Asian Kool” or Asian Underground. Most synonymous with...

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Tao Leigh Goffe (@taoleighgoffe) writes about histories of Black sound technologies, the BBC, news radio as a colonial project, & sonic anticolonial signals | read.dukeupress.edu/social-t…
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Sherena Razek's essay "Potentializing Palestine: Gaza Bursts Open the Imperial Shutter" is now up at ST Online as part of our series Palestine Now | socialtextjournal.org/perisc…
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Read Sara Salem & Tom Western's essay "Anticolonial Antiphonies" in our new special issue of ST, Sound Carries: Coloniality, Race, & the Spatial Politics of Representation | read.dukeupress.edu/social-t…

Anticolonial Antiphonies

Abstract. This article narrates anticolonial antiphonies: an ongoing praxis of political reverberation and relay, a shuttling of strategies that carry across time, space, and language, connecting...

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Read Tariq Jazeel and Tom Western's introduction to our new special issue, Sound Carries, at Duke UP (no paywall) | read.dukeupress.edu/social-t… @rikjaz @tom_western
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Our new special issue, Sound Carries: Coloniality, Race, and the Spatial Politics of Representation, edited by Tariq Jazeel and Tom Western, is now out | read.dukeupress.edu/social-t…
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Marc Ridgell reviews Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman's *Millennial Style: The Politics of Experiment in Contemporary African Diasporic Culture* | socialtextjournal.org/a-revi…
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Wafaa Hasan's essay "Palestine Is a Feminist Struggle" is now up at ST Online: socialtextjournal.org/perisc…
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Wazhmah Osman writes about US media, Afghanistan, and Gaza in our dossier "Feminists for a Free Palestine" |socialtextjournal.org/perisc…
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Read Ather Zia's new essay "Intifada: From Palestine to Kashmir." The essay is part of the series "Feminists for a Free Palestine." socialtextjournal.org/perisc…
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Manijeh Moradian's essay "Iranian Feminist Solidarity with Palestine" is now up at ST Online | socialtextjournal.org/perisc…

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This essay is part of our series Palestine Now, edited by @mayamikdashi, @jkpuar, & Helga Tawil-Souri. See submission guidelines here: socialtextjournal.org/perisc…
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Jorge Sánchez Cruz's article "Debility, Negative Affect, Mobility: Undocuqueer Aesthetics and the Right to Thrive" is currently freely available at Duke UP | read.dukeupress.edu/social-t…

Debility, Negative Affect, Mobility: Undocuqueer Aesthetics and the Right to Thrive

Abstract. This article proposes that the undocumented as a valence of difference expands on queer studies’ turn to a subjectless critique and how debility and negativity become part of the discussion...

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Our web series Palestine Now, edited by @mayamikdashi, @jkpuar, & Helga Tawil-Souri, is now open for submissions. See the guidelines here: socialtextjournal.org/perisc…
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Read the introduction and first essay to the roundtable "Feminists for a Free Palestine." The series has contributions from @ZahraSociology, Wafaa Hasan, Manijeh Moradian, @Wazhmah, and Ather Zia | socialtextjournal.org/perisc…
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Call for Papers: Colonial Studies of the Platform, ed. Elisha Lim and Ezekiel Dixon-Román. Details here | socialtextjournal.org/call-f…
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"The Question of Genocide," a dialogue between Jonathan Beller and Ali Musleh, studies how the question of genocide has infiltrated media ecology and come to permeate every meaning, gesture, and relation since October 2023 | read.dukeupress.edu/social-t…

The Question of Genocide

Abstract. This written dialogue studies how the “question of genocide” has infiltrated media ecology and come to permeate every meaning, gesture, and relation. Confronting Israel's escalation, since...

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Marc Kohlbry's essay, "Technologies of Hope (Fiction, Platforms, Management)," leverages the Nuit Debout social movement in France and contemporary French science fiction to explore the links between information technologies and economic precarity | read.dukeupress.edu/social-t…

Technologies of Hope (Fiction, Platforms, Management)

Abstract. This article leverages the Nuit Debout social movement in France and contemporary French science fiction to explore the links between information technologies and economic precarity. To...

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