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Philanthropy , Hermeneutics, and Power: An Inquiry into Keywords and the “New” Logics
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 370–390.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Patricia Mooney Nickel With novel charitable and philanthropic opportunities emerging at an astonishing rate, it is rarely necessary today to draw the reader’s attention to the cultural politics of philanthropy; the word philanthropy is associated with nearly every celebrity personality, as well...
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Thrift Shop Philanthropy: Charity, Value, and Ascetic Rehabilitation
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (2): 173–189.
Published: 01 July 2016
... these practices originate—come to be rehabilitated as charity, in a cycle that mirrors the circulation of consumer goods upon which they depend for funding. I draw on critical theories of philanthropy, consumer culture, the welfare state, and time, as they contribute to our understanding of the inculcation...
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RUSSIAN PHILANTHROCAPITALISM
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 105–120.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Elisabeth Schimpfössl This article investigates philanthropic practices among Russia’s hyper-rich. It ponders whether and to what extent philanthrocapitalist concepts are compatible with traditional Russian approaches to elite philanthropy, which have been shaped and controlled by the country’s...
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“In a Galaxy Far, Far Away . . .”: C-3PO, Mink, and the Promise of Disruptive Luxury
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 83–97.
Published: 01 March 2016
... . “ Haute Philanthropy: Luxury, Benevolence, and Value .” In Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption 2 ( 2 ): 11 – 31 . Pevsner Nikolaus Richards J. M. , eds. 1973 . The Anti-rationalists . London : Architectural Press . Piketty Thomas . 2014 . Capital in the Twenty-First...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 March 2019
... Capitalism . Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave Macmillan . Hay Iain Beaverstock Jonathan 2016 . Handbook on Wealth and the Super-Rich . Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar . Hay Iain Muller Samantha 2013 . “ Questioning Generosity in the Golden Age of Philanthropy: Towards Critical...
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Dangerous Fictions: The Cultural Politics of Neoliberal Meritocracy
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (2): 252–255.
Published: 01 July 2019
... superrich rentiers to members of the aristocracy) have increasingly drawn on the motifs and tropes of meritocracy; this includes emphasizing their ordinariness (wonderfully captured by Littler’s figure of the “normcore plutocrat”), their “graft,” and their performances of “giving back,” such as philanthropy...
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Luxury Lines: Ordering and the Formation of Regard and Disregard
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 54–65.
Published: 01 March 2016
... Mooney . 2015a . Culture, Politics, and Governing: The Contemporary Ascetics of Knowledge Production . Palgrave Macmillan . Nickel Patricia Mooney . 2015b . “ Haute Philanthropy: Luxury, Benevolence, and Value .” Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption 2 ( 2 ): 1 – 21 . Nickel...
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IS CONTEMPORARY LUXURY MORALLY ACCEPTABLE?: A Question for the Super-Rich
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 48–63.
Published: 01 March 2019
... heritage of humanity through support for public galleries, museums, and cultural venues. For instance, the luxury conglomerate LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton has had a corporate philanthropy program to supports arts and culture since 1990 (see LVMH, n.d.). Furthermore, the demand for luxuries...
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Walmart, Financialization, and the Cultural Politics of Securitization
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (3): 239–262.
Published: 01 November 2013
..., Walmart was able to reroute supplies to its Florida stores—supplies they knew would be in demand, given the purchasing patterns of previous disasters ( Hays 2004 ). A (relatively) small amount of philanthropy in the similar case of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans saw neoliberal pundits marveling at how...
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Identity and Ability: An Interview with Lennard J. Davis
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (2): 163–174.
Published: 01 July 2021
... for CORE [Congress of Racial Equality] at one point. I went to a Red Diaper Baby summer camp that was run by the Jewish Federation of Philanthropies, so I had a leftist sort of antiwar background. When I went to Columbia, it was weird because I was surrounded by prep school kids, and I took a while...
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A Risk Society of Moral Panic: The US in the Twenty-First Century
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (3): 299–318.
Published: 01 November 2006
... Surveillance System” since 1990, and we are all too familiar with the cliché “at-risk youth.” The libertarians over at Reason magazine also favor the term. Academically, risk society is mobilized from sociology and media studies through to anesthesiology and philanthropy, and moral-panic discourse...
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“They Can Never Take it Away from You”: The Optimistic Cruelty of Student Loan Indebtedness
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 March 2024
... . McMillan Cottom Tressie . 2017 . Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy . New York : New Press . McVicar Michael . 2011 . “ Aggressive Philanthropy: Progressivism, Conservatism, and the William Volker Charities Fund .” Missouri Historical Review 105...
