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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 171–191.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Jardar Østbø The Russian authoritarian regime is not necessarily immoral, but its morality shares characteristics with that of street gangsters—and aristocrats. As argued in this article, there are two competing moral orders in Russia—the culture of honor and the culture of dignity. The article...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (2): 203–222.
Published: 01 July 2007
... of traditional canons, including their underlying aesthetics, morality, and cultural codes. The productive pleasure of Canon-Mocking Literature – that is of parody, collage, and pastiche – thus derives from the undermining of authority within certain limits. The second half of the article analyzes...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (1): 27–62.
Published: 01 March 2009
... traditions of Islamic knowledge and moral endeavor. Communications across cultural habits, presuppositions of truth, behavioral signs of community, and generational change are particularly challenging when done through humor at a distance – through newspapers, through second- and thirdhand hearsay...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 251–261.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Chris Hables Gray; Ángel J. Gordo There are important differences in how information technology is used in military and social-movement cultures. Militaries use social media in the Human Terrain model and security-police mode for quantifying and controlling social space, in order to meet low...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (2): 139–164.
Published: 01 July 2005
... of authoritarianism, the author calls for the primacy of a cultural politics in which learning is linked to social change and pedagogy is embraced as a moral and political practice that takes place in a wide range of cultural sites. References Agence France Presse News Line . 2004 . “ Holy War: Evangelical...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 110–129.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Tereza Kuldova This article, grounded in long-term ethnographic research among producers of contemporary luxurious embroideries and fashions in Lucknow, a North Indian city famous for its golden age as a powerful cultural center of opulence and excess, shows how anthropological knowledge can enrich...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 174–197.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Joseph R. Hartman This article reconnoiters a set of repeating images of “cubanness” in state-sponsored art, particularly seen in works created by and appropriated under the patronage of the dictator Gerardo Machado y Morales, in power 1925–33. The primary object of study is Havana’s Statue...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 192–213.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Sarah Hayden “New Eelam” is a cloud-based digital subscription housing project offering ideal homes to footloose “global citizens” who practice high mobility, postpolitical utopianism, and minimalist interior design. This article uncovers the political and cultural significance of this dream...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (3): 289–308.
Published: 01 November 2008
... materialization of a condition whose political and moral dimensions elude materialization as dismayingly as they always did. At the same time, much of the idiom of contemporary culture can be explained by the unprecedented capacity the network gives us to confuse the two dimensions. Modern innocence began...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (2): 233–252.
Published: 01 July 2012
... of political culture it manifests must be broad, and, according to Althusser's elaborations, the law, morality, culture, and politics in the narrow sense are part and parcel of the whole ideological project; therefore we can conclude that, though political thought is part of the social consciousness...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 48–63.
Published: 01 March 2019
... of public access to luxury in the form of public museums and libraries and the enrichment of cultural environments accessible to all, it has a positive moral value ( Cloutier 2015) . Hume’s ([1777] 1987) claim that the growth of luxury has a civilizing and potentially unifying impact in relation...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (3): 299–318.
Published: 01 November 2006
... themselves been transformed by the discourse of risk society. Because certain dangers seem ineradicable, moral panics are mobilized to highlight issues in keeping with the tenets of conservative and neoliberal cultural politics ( Thompson 1998 ; Ungar 2001 ; Critcher 2003 : 164; Hier 2003 ). Religion...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (2): 327–344.
Published: 01 July 2012
... that makes assisted reproduction possible. The discussion starts in critical cultural and social theory that argues that biomedical technologies are neither morally nor socially neutral but deeply influenced by medical, cultural, and political norms ( Lock and Nguyen 2010: 17 ). Thus the dream...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 98–109.
Published: 01 March 2016
.... Green Men: Griffin, 2011. Hand-painted acrylic on paper collage. 8 × 18 in. Figure 8 Moral Hazard II: Eurostyle , 2012, detail. Hand-painted acrylic on paper collage. Figure 8. Moral Hazard II: Eurostyle, 2012, detail. Hand-painted acrylic on paper collage. Figure 7 Moral Hazard II...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 March 2016
... claims is that capitalism’s moral exhaustion can be demonstrated. What readers often miss is Sombart’s methodological originality. He avoids purely economic thinking in favor of what we might call “cultural thinking,” but which we can here insist should be known as “cultural political thinking.” In fact...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 257–278.
Published: 01 November 2005
..., global twentieth-century dissolution, liminality, and metempsychotic recurrence is accompanied by a moral and political culture in which In Yeats, metempsychosis is represented by the figure of the spiral gyre, recurring cycles of history marked by the dissolution of order, chaos, and liminality...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 277–280.
Published: 01 November 2017
... (1993), Life in Fragments: Essays in Postmodern Morality (1995), Postmodernity and Its Discontents (1997), Work, Consumerism, and the New Poor (1998a), and Globalization: The Human Consequences (1998b), all powerful elaborations of an ambivalent cultural criticism of the contemporary state...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (1): 64–78.
Published: 01 March 2022
... evaluations such as the concept of “rudeness” (46). Here the meaning is more substantive than the thin descriptors right or wrong . In the case of “rudeness,” for instance, a host of cultural references from Oscar Wilde to Larry David come to mind and thicken the moral context in which the concept takes...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (1): 5–26.
Published: 01 March 2009
... by all rational individuals” (ibid.: 83); and anyone who does not choose it – those associated with Islam, for instance – as irrational, uncivilized, or morally and culturally backward. Too often the choice nations outside the West are faced with – especially when it comes to joining organizations...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (3): 323–336.
Published: 01 November 2013
... such landscapes. The image of children playing among ruins joined these two meanings together, making the bombsite into a habitat for “feral” youth—the imagined threat that haunts the welfare state. By attending to the material and symbolic landscapes of postwar ruins, we can see a cultural politics struggling...
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