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This Could Be Housing; or, What Is a Demand Anyway? South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Amna A. Akbar
Today’s left movements are rejecting neoliberalism and pivoting toward mass politics through an array of strategies and tactics. Struggles for reforms—or nonreformist reforms—loom large. This essay examines Occupy Wall Street, defund the police, and relations between the Green New Deal and the Red Deal as a way to contribute to critical thinking about demands in popular struggles from below and the
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Some Structural Elements for Understanding the Social Uprising in Colombia South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Martha Bernal,Ilich Ortiz
This article seeks to understand the mass generalized discontent that occurred in Colombia in 2021 by situating it in light of the social and economic effects of the implementation of neoliberal and extractivist policies in recent decades. Those policies have generated inequality, violence, displacement, and dispossession of territories, all within the context of the political regime’s chronic inability
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If You Can Unmake It Here South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 John Whitlow
This article starts from the premise that we are living amid a conjunctural moment, in which the neoliberal political economic and ideological paradigm has been destabilized. In moments of conjuncture, competing social groups vie—contingently and unevenly—to reconfigure a social order that is on the verge of rupture. Such acts of construction necessarily entail an engagement with—and a contestation
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Social Uprising, Racism, and Resistance in Cali’s National Strike South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Betty Ruth Lozano Lerma
To understand the social uprising that occurred in Colombia starting on the day of the national strike, April 28, 2021, particularly in the city of Santiago de Cali, this article examines three postulates: (1) Cali is an ethnicized/racialized and young city; (2) Colombia has one of the highest rates of extreme poverty, inequality, and violence on the continent; (3) being both Black and poor is not
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An Approach to the Argumentation in the “Front Line’s” Discourse in Colombia South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Farid Abud
This article contributes to our understanding the uprising that took place in Colombia in 2021, providing an exploratory approach to the argumentative discourse deployed by the so-called front line (one of the key participants in the uprising). The author examines the points of view put forward by the front line, attempting to determine how they account for the social, economic, and political conditions
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A Conversation between Wendy Brown and Amy Kapczynski South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Wendy Brown,Amy Kapczynski
This special issue of SAQ was convened to facilitate dialogue between critical scholars outside of the legal academy and a new wave of legal scholars focused on the critique of capitalism. The following conversation furthers that effort by bringing together two major scholars who demonstrate the stakes and importance of establishing and developing these intellectual connections. Amy Kapczynski is one
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Decolonizing Legal Subjects in Climate Chaos South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Angela P. Harris
The path of decolonization has always been difficult to walk, mazed as it is with contradictions and double binds, but the existential threat of climate change adds new urgency. This essay suggests that decolonial legal practice be organized around, not the struggle for new rights, but the struggle to imagine new legal subjects. Two types of legal-ontological work are described: rethinking the legal
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#AşağıBakmayacağız (“We Will Not Look Down”) South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Cihan Tekay
This essay provides an analysis of international initiatives organized in solidarity with the protests at Boğaziçi University that erupted shortly after the appointment of a new rector on January 1, 2021. It provides an overview of these initiatives by using data from anonymous interviewees who have participated in solidarity initiatives in Germany and the United States, as well as from personal accounts
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What Time Is It When You’re Black? South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Margo Natalie Crawford
This essay explores the temporal differences between the lived experience of black flesh and the black body. The author uncovers an aesthetics of the open body that differs greatly from the ongoing naturalizing of the always already marked black body. There is an emerging focus in twenty-first century African American literature on the anticipation of a second skin and an open body that has the feeling
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The Struggle for Academic Freedom in an Age of Post-truth South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Zeynep Gambetti
This essay situates the struggle for academic freedom and university autonomy at Boğaziçi University within the broader framework of post-truth. Post-truth is defined as a disinvestment from long-established norms regulating what counts as true, without introducing new criteria in their place. As such, it is a state of constant disorientation. The main argument is that post-truth has a material power
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The Durée of Emancipation and the Crisis of Freedom in Antebellum Black Writing South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Frederick C. Staidum
Although the linear trajectories from enslavement to freedom of slave narratives and antislavery novels have been generally accepted, moments of pause and recursiveness at the very instantiation of the narrators’ or protagonists’ emancipation suggest a different, nonlinear temporality. This essay triangulates the various emancipations of Harriet Jacobs in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Frado
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State Homophobia, Sexual Politics, and Queering the Boğaziçi Resistance South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Cenk Özbay
In the midst of the Boğaziçi resistance against the top-down appointment of the new rector, a form of resistance to state homophobia emerges and resonates with the changing dynamics of sexual politics in Turkey. Following President Erdogan’s demonization of LGBTI+ students as terrorists, police raided their on-campus office and confiscated rainbow flags as what they called evidence of an assumed connection
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By Leaps or by Federation South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Katrina Forrester
One of the underappreciated dimensions of the Corbyn era was that it forged a novel unity on the British left. This article explores how that unity was achieved, what it meant, and why it was so temporary. After tracing the variety of left ideas and factions that shaped the organizational and institutional dimensions of the Corbyn project, it argues that these were held together by three mechanisms:
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Platform Urbanization and the Impact on Urban Transformation and Citizenship South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Naomi C. Hanakata,Filippo Bignami
Many of the defining characteristics of the urban are shifting to virtual platforms. This process imbues all dimensions of urban life, from governance to politics and participation. During the global pandemic and the lockdown in many countries, this shift has gathered speed and is changing the way we communicate and work, challenging the everyday life of our cities. As a result, we are confronted with
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“Platformization” beyond the Point of Production South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Carlotta Benvegnù,Nelli Kampouri
Outside of the literature focusing on the platformization of specific “informal” feminized and racialized sectors, especially care and domestic work, in which reproductive labor has been traditionally carried out, there is a dearth of research on platforms from long-term and intersectional perspectives that go beyond the mere male/female balance. This essay, based on ongoing research and founded on
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Documenting the Everyday Hidden Resistance of Ride-Hailing Platform Drivers to Algorithmic Management in Lagos, Nigeria South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Daniel Arubayi
Ride-hailing platforms such as Uber, an integral component in the global platform economy, are not only facilitating fluidity and so-called autonomy of labor; they are also creating an unfair working environment for workers. This phenomenon indicates the strength of a highly temporal and mobile capital, pitted against workers not just in Lagos but around the world. This article adopts James Scott’s
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Digital Workers, Urban Vectors, and New Economies South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Francis Kuriakose,Deepa Kylasam Iyer
Platform capitalism has enabled digital platforms to bring producers, consumers, and workers in a multisided marketplace with the purpose of collecting data. The resulting commodification of materiality and sociality in the digital sphere and the proprietary control of data open opportunities for value creation and realization, quite distinct from the value propositions of industrial manufacturing
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Connecting the Levers of Platform Control South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Fabien Brugière
Drawing from a transurban field research conducted in the ride-hailing sector in Paris and Brussels regions, this article investigates platformization as a productive model defined by the articulation of an outsourced labor regime with an algorithmic and data-driven type of management. Beyond the formal sharing of an independent contractor status, nuanced by a variety of positions including salaried
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The End of the Road South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Jeremy Gilbert
This essay examines the electoral failure of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party from one specific perspective. Assuming that, as the most thorough subsequent analysis has concluded, there was no way for Labour to hold together its electoral coalition during the 2017–19 Brexit negotiations, it argues that Corbyn’s one electoral chance came at the June 2017 election. Given Labour’s long history of electoral
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Neoliberal Platform Capitalism and Subjectivity South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Fábio Luís Ferreira Nóbrega Franco
Across the globe, algorithmic technologies have undeniably altered the way labor relations are governed. The purpose of this article is to investigate a particular manifestation of that phenomenon: how, in Brazil, platform capitalism consists in a hybrid rationality whose control over the sphere of work combines new mechanisms of governance with structural characteristics that are particular to a type
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The Limits of Algorithmic Management South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Jamie Woodcock
Much of the existing research on platform work has focused on the role of data and algorithmic management. These new techniques of management need to be critically understood, but there is a risk of overemphasizing the importance and power of these techniques. The obscuring processes of data collection and analysis make it hard to comprehend how data is being used in practice. Less is known about the
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“Sex Work Is Star Shaped” South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Vanessa Carlisle
This article interrogates the common sex worker rights’ slogan “sex work is real work,” a claim that yokes sex worker struggles to labor struggles worldwide. This article argues that US-based sex worker rights activism, which relies on the labor rights framework to confront stigma and criminalization, is unable to undo how racial capitalism constructs sex work as not a legitimate form of work. While
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Migrant Struggles in South Korea and Elsewhere South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Manie (Jong-Man Choi),Joyce C. H. Liu,Brett Neilson
Bidduth, Syed, and Samar were dishonorably deported from South Korea about fifteen years ago while they were protesting for the rights of undocumented migrant workers. Since returning to their home countries, Bangladesh and Nepal, they have been practicing modes of solidarity that they learned during the years of struggle. Still, We Are Migrant Workers is a documentary film made to record their personal
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Erotic Labor within and without Work South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 femi babylon,Heather Berg
In this interview, femi babylon elaborates a proheaux womanist theory of erotic labor as at once work and antiwork. “Sex work is work” speaks to the realities of erotic labor as a survival strategy and illuminates the connections among erotic labor and other forms of gig work. At the same time, it can operate as a bid for respectability, and one that occludes erotic labor as a strategy for refusing
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Unhatching the Egg in Lebanon’s 2019 Protests South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Nikolas Kosmatopoulos
This auto-ethnographic essay revisits the story of the Beirut City Center Dome, also known as the “Egg,” a 1960s brutalist-modernist cinema abandoned to snipers during Lebanon’s civil war, which briefly became a stage for a direct action politics in the early days of Lebanon’s October 2019 uprising. One of the uprising’s most ambitious aims was the ushering in of a new social contract beyond sectarian
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Thrice Unseen, Forever on Borrowed Time South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 María Elena Cepeda
Designed to amplify and archive narratives frequently erased in official accounts of faculty life, this article centers a Latina feminist testimonio approach in its personal examination of mentally disabled faculty members and crip time, or the unique temporalities experienced by disabled individuals and the temporal strategies that they purposefully deploy. The analysis specifically focuses on mentally
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Teaching Lebanon’s Politics in Times of the Uprising South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Jamil Mouawad
This article looks at Lebanon’s October 17 uprising from the vantage point of teaching in academia when classes were suspended and students were no longer meeting in the classroom to participate in a course of high relevance aiming to address and unpack the unfolding events on the streets. It argues that an engaged academic should not only preach to the converted but, more importantly, should account
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Reclaiming the Radical Politics of Self-Care South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Jina B. Kim,Sami Schalk
Since 2016, searches for and discussions of self-care in the United States have increased significantly. While authors who identify as people of color and/or queer critique the capitalist co-optation of this term by linking it conceptually to the work of Audre Lorde, engagement with disability remains conspicuously absent all around, given that Lorde’s use of this concept comes from her 1988 essay
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The Crip Tarot Card South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Matt Hyunh,Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha,curated by Mimi Khúc
The Crip is one of thirty cards in the Asian American Tarot, an original deck of tarot cards I curated as part of my hybrid book arts project on mental health, Open in Emergency (first published in 2016 and then in an expanded second edition in 2019/2020). Each card names an archetype that structures the psychic and material life of Asian Americans, and draws upon knowledge production in Asian American
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Making Mental Health through Open in Emergency South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Mimi Khúc
This epistolary essay chronicles the making of Open in Emergency: A Special Issue on Asian American Mental Health (2016, 2019), an interdisciplinary, hybrid book arts project that is an antiracist and disability justice rethinking of mental health. Open in Emergency works to decolonize our approaches to un/wellness and radically expand our vocabularies through the arts and humanities. This essay, written
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Six Types of Waiting in Berlin, 2017 South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Christine Sun Kim,Amanda Cachia
In Six Types of Waiting in Berlin, Christine Sun Kim’s drawings provide a fascinating constellation of cultural and sensorial experiences with time. Originally from the United States, the artist shares her account of how time (and waiting) is measured differently according to the cities in which she has lived, with each place having its own advantages and drawbacks. While each environment in which
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The State of Exception Goes Viral South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Partha Chatterjee
The recent protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act have been widespread, spontaneous, and without the active sponsorship of political parties. They have brought out on the streets thousands of students and women who have never before participated in political rallies. What is the significance of this movement as a point of resistance against authoritarian Hindu nationalism? What does it mean
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Let there Be Light (Or, In Defense of Darkness) South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Nandita Badami
Drawing links between solar philanthrocapitalism and the concept of light as knowledge, this article cautions against the regressive epistemics we might unintentionally reinforce through the fetishization of rationality as a measure of the success of a solar intervention. In its place, it suggests solarities that delink the expectation of development from the commitment to improve energy access—that
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Revolution andRevellion South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Dominic Boyer
It has been increasingly common to hear talk of the need for “revolutionary action” to break the Anthropocene/Capitalocene trajectory of northern petroculture. Sometimes this talk is deployed by transition-oriented political movements like Sunrise and Extinction Rebellion. At other times, it is the mild liberal-consumerist “join the revolution” discourse put forward by green capitalist ventures. In
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Solar Infrastructure as Media of Resistance, or, Indigenous Solarities against Settler Colonialism South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Jordan B. Kinder
The ongoing history of setter colonialism is inextricable from the infrastructures of energy and extraction that provide its material foundation. Addressing this inextricable relationship, this article explores how Indigenous solarities in Canada resist extractivism and generate conditions for just energy futures beyond settler colonialism through emergent solar infrastructures. Developing a preliminary
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Revolution and Counterrevolution in India South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Ranabir Samaddar
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How Does Critique Become Effective? South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Warren Montag
Critique has been the site of a conflict from the time of its origins: the conflict over the proper relation between theory and practice. Must critique protect its fundamental separation from practice, in order to guard against the intrusion of particular interests into what ought to be a realm of rational deliberation? In this case, critique would precede and direct practice. Or, in contrast, does
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The End of Ideology, the Ideology of the End South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Alenka Zupančič
When in 1989 Francis Fukuyama launched his thesis about the “end of history,” it rhymed perfectly with another fashionable suggestion about the “end of ideology.” This paper attempts to examine what could be called the ideology of the end, of which both of these trendy phrases partake. It looks particularly into the predominant modality both of these so-called “ends” display whereby the end is paired
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Critical Theory in Times of Crisis South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Hortense Spillers
This essay looks at the relationship between political movements in the streets and critical theory in the academy. It asks whether today the lack of innovation in critical theory we see in some disciplines occasions, if not reflects, the muting of political dissent outside of the university. Contemporary critical theory now seems split into two separate fields, “criticism” and “theory,” revealing
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From Point Zero to the Future South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Helena Silvestre
This text seeks to describe the territories of the favelas as a fertile ground for the birth of organizational forms that can strengthen struggles toward an emancipated society, in which life is free. It aims to trace the trajectory of resistance in those territories, the occupations, and evictions that shaped and continue shaping them. It highlights the feminized bodies in struggle against forced
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Anti-racist Feminism or Barbarism South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Pastora Filigrana
In September 2017, feminist assemblies began meeting on the eighth day of each month in multiple cities and towns across Spain to prepare for the feminist strike in the country. That same fall, the trial is held for the “wolf pack,” the gang rape that occurred during the festival of San Fermín in 2016: once again, the woman who was raped is put on trial, and not the rapists. With the slogans, “I believe
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Notes for an Anti-racist Feminism in the Wake of the Migrant Caravans South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Amarela Varela Huerta
This essay presents a retrospective analysis of the experience of the migrant caravans that crossed Mesoamerica to the United States, using their bodies to defy the necropolitical border regime of states in the region. These caravans were a specific type of migrant struggle, led by families attempting to preserve life through their displacement. The text is an exercise of reflection based on accompanying
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Preliminary Remarks toward a Formal Understanding of Revolution South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Oleg Aronson
In this essay, Oleg Aronson proposes to view the protests of 1968 as a continuation of the social revolutionary processes initiated by the French Revolution. The author interprets revolution not as an event of historical rupture but as a process of long duration (in the sense of Fernand Braudel’s longue durée). Signs of such revolution are found beyond the regime of human perception and contemplation
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What Has Happened to the Left Revolutionary Project? South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Susan Buck-Morss,Jonathan Flatley,Helen Petrovsky
This interview documents an email exchange between Susan Buck-Morss, Jonathan Flatley, and Helen Petrovsky on the occasion of the publication of Buck-Morss’s Revolution Today.
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Zounds! Raoul Vaneigem’s Negative Tradition South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Robert Bird
In his essay Robert Bird traces a web of citations that link Zounds’ post-punk song “Subvert” to Raoul Vaneigem’s Revolution of Everyday Life and, even further, back to Vasilii Rozanov’s Apocalypse of Our Times, written in the wake of (and in opposition to) the Russian revolutions of 1917. This history of texts and media not only illustrates the concept of revolutionary tradition but also highlights
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Revolution without Revolution (On the Events in France) South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Helen Petrovsky
Petrovsky’s article examines the famous events of May ’68 in France from a specific angle offered by Michel de Certeau, namely, the “taking of speech” (la prise de parole). For de Certeau the taking of speech is no less important than the taking of the Bastille—it asserts the individual’s right to resistance and is a necessary precondition of all the other human rights. However, where de Certeau speaks
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Magic Wands and Monkey Brains: Is Labor Ready to Lead Society in the New Struggle Over Data? South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Biju Mathew
Based on extensive conversations with Uber, Lyft, and Ola drivers across multiple cities in the United States and India, this article argues that gig/platform work operates through a reorganization of established labor process with data at the center of such changes. Not only is data central to a dynamic restructuring of labor processes but data as “value” moves across multiple production processes
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Introduction: Getting Back the Land South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Shiri Pasternak,Dayna Nadine Scott
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Decolonizing Decolonization: An Indigenous Feminist Perspective on the Recognition and Rights Framework South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Sherry Pictou
The “Recognition and Implementation of Indigenous Rights Framework,” announced in 2018 by the federal government was originally hailed as a process for decolonization. Though the framework was withdrawn in December 2018, several policy and legislative initiatives give every indication that the framework is moving forward. In this regard, the paper seeks to open up a discussion about how decolonization
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“Canada Has a Pipeline Problem”: Valuation and Vulnerability of Extractive Infrastructure South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Kylie Benton-Connell,D. T. Cochrane
Indigenous-led movements have shifted oil transport infrastructure from the margins to the center of political contestation throughout North America. These campaigns include confrontation with pipeline financiers. We argue that there are both strategic and theoretical reasons to examine the complex relationship between finance and extractive infrastructure. We provide a broad description of this relationship
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Extraction Contracting: The Struggle for Control of Indigenous Lands South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Dayna Nadine Scott
This article outlines the contemporary dynamics of “consent by contract,” argued to be a mode of governance that attempts to define the social, political, ecological, and economic relations regarding the use of Indigenous lands solely through confidential bargaining and agreement-making between private extraction companies and First Nations, but in fact affords the state a key role in setting the terms
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Platform Workers of the World, Unite! The Emergence of the Transnational Federation of Couriers South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Callum Cant,Clara Mogno
This article provides an introduction to the Transnational Federation of Couriers by presenting the results of ongoing processes of participant observation carried out by the authors. First, it gives an account of the formation of the TFC out of preexisting networks. Second, it moves onto a discussion of how the TFC was able to formulate a set of demands which applied across the different contexts
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Introduction: Class Struggle before Class South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Todd Wolfson
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Beyond Contempt: Injunctions, Land Defense, and the Criminalization of Indigenous Resistance South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Irina Ceric
Claiming that the criminal justice system fails to effectively prohibit protest and civil disobedience, corporate lawyers embrace the pervasive use of injunctions and contempt of court charges in struggles over resource extraction in British Columbia, dubbing this approach the “new normal.” Yet even a cursory review of protest policing in Canada reveals that state intervention in resistance movements
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Assimilation and Partition: How Settler Colonialism and Racial Capitalism Co-produce the Borders of Indigenous Economies South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Shiri Pasternak
The history of colonialism in Canada has meant both the partition of Indigenous peoples from participating (physically, politically, legally) in the economy and a relentless demand to become assimilated as liberal capitalist citizens. Assimilation and segregation are both tendencies of colonization that protect the interests of white capital. But their respective prevalence seems to depend on the regime
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Ǧviḷ̕ás and Snəwayəɬ: Indigenous Laws, Economies, and Relationships with Place Speaking to State Extractions South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Deborah Curran,Eugene Kung,Ǧáǧvi Marilyn Slett
A discussion about Indigenous economies, governance, and laws begins with relationships. These relationships are centered in a place, a traditional territory, and include responsibilities towards that place. Such a relational approach to Indigenous economies is in conflict with capitalist modes of extraction and the settler Canadian court’s narrow conception of the duties of “consultation and accommodation”
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A History of Uber Organizing in the UK South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Yaseen Aslam, Jamie Woodcock
This article details Yaseen Aslam’s experience of organizing at Uber. Yaseen is the National General Secretary of UPHD (United Private Hire Drivers), a branch of the IWGB (Independent Workers Union of Great Britain). He is a co-claimant, with James Farrar, in the employment rights court cases against Uber in the UK. The article is the outcome of co-writing with Jamie Woodcock, presenting Yaseen’s first-person
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Death and Life at Sea South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Luca Casarini
Luca Casarini, who has served as “chief of mission” on the Mare Jonio, recounts the experience of sailing on the ship and rescuing migrants in distress. He situates his personal experiences in the context of the current plight of migrants in the Central Mediterranean and the Italian government’s attacks against humanitarian organizations.
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From Social Worker to Social Ship Owner South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Alessandro Metz,Michael Hardt,Sandro Mezzadra
In this article, Michael Hardt and Sandro Mezzadra interview Alessandro Metz, social worker and “social” owner of the ship Mare Jonio, which seeks to aid and protect migrants during increasingly perilous Mediterranean Sea crossings. Metz explores the relation between social work and political activism, with particular emphasis on the writings of Franco Basaglia.
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Counterplanning in the Crisis of Social Reproduction South Atlantic Quarterly (IF 1.763) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Silvia Federici,Campbell Jones
In this interview Silvia Federici discusses the prospects for counterplanning from below in the current crisis of social reproduction. The organization of care and social reproduction by capital, in alliance with governmental and non-governmental organizations, has created massive structural suffering and devalued vital social activities from which capital extracts value for which it pays nothing.