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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (2): 173–189.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Patricia Mooney Nickel Although the charity thrift shop is typically treated as an apolitical nonprofit entity, it plays a significant cultural and political role in the contemporary practice of governing. In this article, I am concerned with how well-being is distributed through the governance...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 370–390.
Published: 01 November 2017
... as nearly every market transaction and community activity—from buying shoes to wearing them to a charity gala at the local donor-funded museum. These practices activate action through vocabulary, or through a productive relationship to what Raymond Williams ([1976] 1985) described as keywords...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 105–120.
Published: 01 March 2019
... assets were worth $4.6 billion. He is cofounder of Liniia Zhizni (Life Line), a charity that organizes surgeries for children, and of Genesis Philanthropy Group, which supports Russian-speaking Jews worldwide. Aven regularly lends pieces of his art collections to museums. He is a trustee of several...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 54–65.
Published: 01 March 2016
... Justice .” Historical Materialism 15 ( 4 ): 79 – 104 . Kapoor Ilan . 2013 . Celebrity Humanitarianism: The Ideology of Global Charity . London : Routledge . Kuldova Tereza . 2016 . “ Fatalist Luxuries: Of Inequality, Wasting, and Anti-Work Ethic in India .” Cultural Politics...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 83–97.
Published: 01 March 2016
... of its profits to British firefighting charities, a convincing example of sustainable and ethical production, which, with bags priced between £200 and £300 (approximately US$300–$450), places them in the “affordable luxury” category. Whether Elvis and Kresse attain the recycling longevity of the similar...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (2): 289–304.
Published: 01 July 2024
... alcohol-free sites to be so in the area. The library was moved from a back room to nearer the entrance, which had been adapted to enable physical accessibility, shortly before the site closed. A registered charity, the site, despite crowdfunding efforts, could not be maintained without income over...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (2): 255–258.
Published: 01 July 2006
... topics as exemplars of the debate: the notion of travel as a metaphor for our times, the work of Derrida on Marx and the Party; the origins of capitalism and anti-capitalism in the scene of the first Indian revolution; and the history of antiwar communism as a critique of fascism and liberal charity” (p...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (1): 93–110.
Published: 01 March 2010
... with the show's main performers. There are similar elements of what Bakhtin (1984) sees as the “carnivalesque” reversals of conventional roles in the current annual BBC charity telethon Comic Relief , where celebrities including well-known journalists are routinely invited to suspend their conventional modes...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 15–28.
Published: 01 March 2019
... 7 . www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/im-not-black-im-kanye/559763/ . Cooper Marta . 2016 . “ That Photograph of Nigel Farage and Donald Trump in a Lurid Gold Doorway Is Raising Thousands for Charity .” Quartz , November 24 . qz.com/845722/that-picture-of-nigel...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 42–48.
Published: 01 March 2016
... of the Church, and the orators of the Christian pulpit, are completely justified by the researches of modern science. They were ignorant of political economy, but they were inspired by the instinct of justice and of right, and, after the Christian era, by the idea of charity and of human brotherhood. All...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (1): 44–63.
Published: 01 March 2022
... nightwear and calming homeware. —Promotional email from department store Lean in to positive solitude during lockdown! —Wellness app New styles with a positivity palette. —Women's fashion store It's amazing what can happen when you pause. —Charity appeal Some of the self-care...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 March 2019
... the exaggerated degree of influence and “hyper” agency ascribed to and mobilized by the super-rich ( Maclean, Harvey, and Kling 2017) . Whether it be in regard to decisions to close themselves off in gated communities ( Pow 2011) , to engage in charity work or public service ( Power et al. 2016 ; Schimpfössl...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 60–74.
Published: 01 March 2024
... and young children (Gleason 2011 ), and one that promises to afford, according to the Early Learning Centre (n.d.), “a perfect way to introduce little ones to care and empathy.” Indeed, as a mascot for children's charities and a cliché of news photography of disaster and war, it is often presented...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (1): 77–96.
Published: 01 March 2006
... at Gallant Garden … Various other fundraising projects were launched by charity groups, media organizations, performing arts groups and the business sector … [finally] an emerging sense of civic responsibility found wider expression, in the ways people voluntarily took precautionary measures to protect both...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (2): 193–212.
Published: 01 July 2006
... – the debt should be dropped for reasons of justice, not charity; though they also combine such arguments with an appeal to compassion, and Christian themes have been important to many members of the movement (the term “debt forgiveness” appears quite prominently in the campaigning literature...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 339–354.
Published: 01 November 2016
... to be detached from a simple idea of “caretaking” and “caregiving.” To say that we care for the world and the poor is to appeal to charity, which presupposes hierarchy. Of greater importance is a social and political practice of caring in ways that undo hierarchies between humans and humans and between humans...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (1): 5–24.
Published: 01 March 2008
... organizes an event whose purpose is to raise money. The result is now well known. First came the Band Aid single “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” recorded by forty high-profile pop musicians, followed by the massive, open-air media event Live Aid, a one-day dual charity concert staged simultaneously...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (2): 161–182.
Published: 01 July 2008
..., in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, in the blossoming of all sorts of benevolent societies, charities, and voluntary organizations concerned with the cultural education and improvement of the people: some of these were secular, and some were religious; some were the results of middle-class...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (2): 228–245.
Published: 01 July 2021
... and the Failed Absolute Žižek pushes to an extreme conclusion: “Humanitarian charity participates in the universe which creates victims; eco-sustainability reproduces the very ecological problems it claims to resolve; reforms of capitalism make it more effective. . . . The circle is ALMOST closed...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 110–129.
Published: 01 March 2016
..., and with the fact that one’s suffering is not always proportionate to one’s merit, behavior, goodness, charity, and so on. But still, the belief in an unjust world and the accompanying social fatalism appears to be an everyday practice shared equally by Muslims and Hindus. Hence, it has possibly less to do...