Social Text 95

Urban Margins: Envisioning the Contemporary Global South
Special Issue Editors Kamran Asdar Ali and Martina Rieker

Introduction: Urban Margins
Kamran Asdar Ali and Martina Rieker

Emergency Democracy and the “Governing Composite”
AbdouMaliq Simone

“City of Whores”: Nationalism, Development, and Global Garment Workers in Sri Lanka
Sandya Hewamanne

Urban Modernity on the Periphery: A New Middle Class Reinvents the Palestinian City
Lisa Taraki

In the Ruins of Bahla: Reconstructed Forts and Crumbling Walls in an Omani Town
Mandana E. Limbert

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“Mardi Gras Geishas (Batters)” [photograph]
Nic Sammond

The Gnat and the Sovereign
Allen Feldman

With Ice in Their Ears
Allen Feldman

Withcraft
Rosalind Morris