2024-12-31T00:50:51-05:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/150001379/screen-print-52-shela-sheikh-searches-for-new-political-vocabularies-in-and-now-architecture-against-a-developer-presidency Nicholas Korody 2017-04-05T12:12:00-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/d8/d8h3a76sz9eckhgn.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>On November 8, 2016 Donald Trump won the US Presidential election. Just under a month later, the US Army Corps of Engineers temporarily halted the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline following large protests heavily covered by the media. These events frame &nbsp;Shela Sheikh&rsquo;s essay &ldquo;Translating Geontologies&rdquo;, which contends with an emerging (or at least, for some, a newly visible) political landscape marked by &ldquo;an insidious violence that is more often than not environmental and affecting the bodies of racialized subjects.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>