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Published: 01 March 2013
Figure 1 When China took its first post-1949 census in 1953, its population was 582 million, of which more than 85 percent were peasant farmers. Sixty years later, its population has grown to over 1.3 billion, with approximately 50 percent, the majority of which are peasant framers, residing
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 92–110.
Published: 01 March 2020
..., and by writing a 10 percent buffer into slave-ship contracts they internalized contingency. This codification of risk pressured captains and established a logic for the violence enacted on the ship’s human “cargo.” The Black-Scholes formula of option pricing sought to codify the ocean of risk represented...
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Published: 01 November 2016
Figure 3 Baotou, China, 2014: a rare-earth refinery with centrifuges concentrates rare-earth ore into industrial application before it is force dried into powder form. China produces 76 percent of the world’s rare-earth magnets.
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (3): 299–318.
Published: 01 November 2006
... Companion (2004). He was onto something. One must ponder hard a nation where the vast majority attests to the existence of a devil and individuated angels; 45 percent of residents claim aliens have visited Earth; three times more people think there are ghosts than was the case a quarter of a century ago...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 29–47.
Published: 01 March 2019
... , New York Times , Financial Times , Associated Press, and China Daily . 1 These titles are primarily focused on the middle class, as suggested by readership statistics. 2 Middle class (ABC1, higher, intermediate, and junior professional/managerial/administrative) readers make up 77 percent...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (1): 42–52.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Figure 1 When China took its first post-1949 census in 1953, its population was 582 million, of which more than 85 percent were peasant farmers. Sixty years later, its population has grown to over 1.3 billion, with approximately 50 percent, the majority of which are peasant framers, residing...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 88–104.
Published: 01 March 2019
... times the value of GDP ( Haldane 2010 ). In 1979, the equity value of the stock market was roughly two-fifths of government income. By 2012 it was worth three times government income (see Davis and Walsh 2017 ). According to John Kay (2016) , currently some 97 percent of “money” in the UK economy...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (1): 71–94.
Published: 01 March 2007
... a front-page report headlined “Poll Finds Voters Jaded and Volatile” ( Fagan 2004 , May 21). In this precampaign survey of 2,000 Canadians, 61 percent believed the governing Liberal Party was corrupt, 36 percent said the Liberals deserve to be reelected, 77 percent said they were “absolutely certain...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 72–87.
Published: 01 March 2019
... 2016) . Any number of measures generates similar conclusions. Oxfam’s reports from 2010 demonstrate alarming concentrations of wealth ( Oxfam 2010, 2016 ). Whereas in 2010 the wealthiest 1 percent of the global population possessed 44 percent of global wealth, by 2015, and for the first time...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 376–379.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Figure 3 Baotou, China, 2014: a rare-earth refinery with centrifuges concentrates rare-earth ore into industrial application before it is force dried into powder form. China produces 76 percent of the world’s rare-earth magnets. ...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (2): 150–155.
Published: 01 July 2017
... come to say whatever the torturer wants to hear, fabricating false information, to put a stop to the torture. During the Korean War, 70 percent of the 7,190 US prisoners of war had cooperated with the North Koreans and Chinese. Of the 3,323 US Army prisoners, 39 percent signed propaganda petitions, 22...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (1): 70–85.
Published: 01 March 2013
... . Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press . Tange's design for Expo '70 in Osaka could be seen as the peak of his achievement in that it was both realized (unlike his master plans) and regarded as a success. This was the period of Japan's rapid economic growth: a 420 percent rise in gross national...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (2): 175–202.
Published: 01 July 2007
... Behavior and Selected Health Measures, 2002 appeared. It documented that the proportion of teenagers who have given or received oral sex was slightly higher than the proportion who have had intercourse, the survey found, with 55 percent of the boys and 54 percent of the girls having given or received oral...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (2): 159–192.
Published: 01 July 2006
... side. He says he has identified other sites near Bethlehem, Rafah, and Tarkunia near Hebron. Each of these sites should provide 15,000 jobs. He points out that just for the current unemployment levels to be maintained, the Palestinian economy would have to grow at 7–8 percent a year (Rappaport, Meron...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 48–63.
Published: 01 March 2019
... investment opportunities. Hence a feature of these countries in the contemporary era is that, despite the reduction of inequality during the post-1945 period, most people are now experiencing declining incomes in real terms, while the top 1 percent continue to prosper ( Stiglitz 2013 ; Dorling 2014...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (2): 250–258.
Published: 01 July 2017
..., then intoned: For an open spot! the attorney interjected. Drivers driving, circling. Driving, circling, searching. A pause. Studies have shown. Studies, studies have shown. At any given moment, 74 percent of drivers are driving in circles, searching. The Extender pulled into the entrance...
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Published: 01 November 2016
Figure 1 Bayan Obo, China, December 21, 2010: inside the highly restricted Bayan Obo rare earth mine. The treasure mountain deposit is the world’s largest and, as of 2005, is responsible for 45 percent of global rare earth metal production. Photographer Toby Smith gained access in 2010 by waiting
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 315–325.
Published: 01 November 2017
... for the election of Hillary Clinton, the final breakdown of statistics for voting revealed that 53 percent of white women who voted, voted for Trump, despite his blatant misogyny and self-proclaimed record of sexual predation. In stark contrast, 94 percent of black women voters voted for Clinton ( WITW Staff 2016...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 125–131.
Published: 01 July 2014
... pretends to be interested either in the integrity of the nation-state or in the well-being of any but the few — the “1 percent,” to use the term popularized by the Occupy movement in 2011. Related to this collapse of faith in the neoliberal utopia, the political and economic elites have proved more...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 March 2019
... of economic resources ( Chomsky 2012; Piketty 2014; Dorling 2014; Sayer 2015) . However, it also invigorates the reproduction of structural inequalities, through the defensive measures of the 1 percent, and the aspirational strategies of those wishing to join it. At the same time that the gap between...
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