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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 110–129.
Published: 01 March 2016
... current critical discussions of luxury and inequality. Since the 1990s, anthropology has seen a boom in consumption and material culture studies coterminous with the rise of identity politics and its celebration of diversity. In anthropological theory, as well, linking consumption to identity has stolen...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (1): 44–63.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of a global pandemic that has affected women disproportionally, and when structural injustices and inequalities have been made ever more visible, positivity and individualized self-care interpellations to women flourish, anger is muted, and critiques of structural inequality are largely silenced. Thus...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 92–110.
Published: 01 March 2020
..., these two moments demonstrate the historical continuity of a core imperative to exhaustively capitalize space. This historicization also foregrounds the racialized inequalities coded within these informatic logics. Against the bright innovation narratives of technology, this article stresses a longer...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 March 2019
... of how the accumulation of wealth is perpetuated and excused through discourses of legitimation, structural dynamics, and lived identities. These are much-needed critical interventions at a time of escalating inequality. © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 This content is made freely available...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 48–63.
Published: 01 March 2019
...; but where luxury unites community and advances human endeavor, it can be defended on moral grounds. However, in the contemporary period, growing economic inequality is increasingly overshadowing any positive moral impact of luxury. © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 luxury inequality morality...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 17–27.
Published: 01 March 2021
... preexisting forms of inequality and as a powerful solvent of the unexamined presumptions of the dominant discourse of globalization. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 mobilities inequalities instabilities boundaries Toward the end of 2019 our increasingly mobile world (as we...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 37–47.
Published: 01 March 2021
... and materially impossible. At the same time, it is insufficient to fall back on narratives about the ontological inevitability of entanglement with nonhumans because the harms—for humans and other species—that are posed by particular relations are tightly bound with socioeconomic inequalities and asymmetries...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (2): 252–255.
Published: 01 July 2019
... escalating wealth inequalities, stalling social mobility, and almost one decade of punishing austerity measures, the cultural pull of meritocracy has not waned. For scholars concerned with the persistent structural inequalities and injustices that block upward social mobility, the insistence on individual...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (3): 346–366.
Published: 01 November 2020
..., and Australia. Socioeconomically marginalized groups bear the political and economic inequities of the “neoliberal diet” of energy-dense, nutrient poor, processed edibles ( Otero et al. 2015 ) most heavily, for reasons that include economic insecurity and precarity ( Offer, Pechey, and Ulijaszek 2012...
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Published: 01 November 2007
of normalcy to its psychotic limits. The work questions the gay movements’s insistence on legalized marriage as the only answer to social inequities caused by homophobia and patriarchy.
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Published: 01 March 2013
worsening ubiquitous corruption and inequality. Patriotic TV programs depicting the founding of the “New China” have not lost their attraction. (Photos top to bottom: Yunnan Province and Hunan Province)
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 88–104.
Published: 01 March 2019
... that supports the super-rich. They have done this in two ways: by publicly and privately promoting neoliberal market philosophies that facilitate financialization and extreme inequality, and by managing major corporations as financial assets and investment vehicles for wealthy investors rather than...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 72–87.
Published: 01 March 2019
... not alter the inescapable conclusion that since the beginning of the global financial crisis patterns of global inequality have not just widened, they have done so on such a scale that some commentators have come to view it as a symptom of a fundamental structural fault in neoliberal capitalism ( Streeck...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 1–13.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of the 1990s science wars, in which critique in general, work from a poststructuralist tradition in particular, and—more specifically still—theoretical perspectives concerned with gender and racial inequality have been seen as contributing to a relativization of facts and expert knowledge. 1 Particular...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (1): 111–124.
Published: 01 March 2010
... 1996 ), then inequalities move beyond traditional boundaries, and struggles over matters of taste become significant. Bourdieu recognized the primary role of the aesthetic as a vehicle through which distinctions could be made more apparent in the context of social change. In this way consumption can...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (3): 427–429.
Published: 01 November 2023
... to the socioeconomic and legal inequalities that are structurally embedded in late capitalist societies (e.g., the rarity of job security and pension schemes; the securitization of space, mobility, and information; or the sense of daily insecurity around war, the climate catastrophe, violence, and more). Second...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 105–120.
Published: 01 March 2019
... the children to find a place in society that will make them appear deserving in their own right, regardless of the fact that they were born into privilege. Philanthrocapitalism has become fashionable at a time of increasing social inequality, with the wealth of a tiny group of hyper-rich multiplying...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 370–390.
Published: 01 November 2017
... is experienced at the most individual level—as a hermeneutic relation of power. 36 This will require that we ask, inequality of what? Individual forms of philanthropy practiced outside of positivist culture could possibly address material inequalities. However, they may also impose hermeneutic practices...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (3): 372–386.
Published: 01 November 2019
... domestic and international inequality, neoliberals attacked what they saw as the Left’s faulty premises: the perfectibility of humans through state intervention and the possibility of a future equality of not only starting points but outcomes. Taking aim at what they saw as the “collectivism” and “blank...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (2): 200–218.
Published: 01 July 2023
...—resolution (Berlant 2011 ). In the Claws of a Century Wanting and We, the Survivors position their subjects within a morally ambiguous zone that unsettles the tropes of victim, perpetrator, and hero favored by neoliberal humanitarian constructions of inequality (Kurasawa 2015 ; Rothberg 2019...
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