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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (3): 357–382.
Published: 01 November 2010
... global ethnography multiple realities social activism Israel Oshra, 1 a middle-aged Jewish housewife from a Southern Israeli town, was sitting on a plastic chair in the middle of a dusty valley in the Northern Negev desert in Israel. Around her was a jumble of demolished shacks, tin...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 370–390.
Published: 01 November 2017
... about philanthropy as social power: “A practically situated capacity to control others’ actions, where this capacity may be exercised (actively or passively) by particular social agents, or alternatively, it may operate purely structurally” (13). 13 Philanthropy is variously experienced, but when...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (2): 305–324.
Published: 01 July 2024
... heterodox internet histories. Though a focus on three case studies—artistic engagements with GeoCities, traces left by Indymedia in contemporary activism, and emerging ethical frameworks for reusing social media data—the article examines the political and ethical significance of attempts to archive specific...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 354–375.
Published: 01 November 2014
... activities and has permeated life as “living labor.” Attributes, proclivities, and capacities previously not (thought to be) productive of economic value, such as linguistic or social competences, compassion, care, or taste, are now increasingly valorized in capitalist modes of flexible accumulation...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (2): 157–170.
Published: 01 July 2010
... recent publishing and public activities proceed from his account of the necessity to invent a viable cultural program for inter-generational reengagement with the technical milieu beyond the widespread disenchantment with social and political processes. BS: It's another series, yes. ( Laughter...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 48–63.
Published: 01 March 2019
... of contemporary luxury is dependent on the social and economic context within which it is situated. This is because the meaning of both luxury and morality vary according to social context. Further, where luxury divides and stimulates degenerate, unethical, and criminal activities, it is morally indefensible...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Paula Serafini; Jennifer Smith Maguire The authors outline how multiple dimensions—historical and contemporary; global and local; political, economic, social, and cultural—inform an understanding of the super-rich. Recent super-rich scholarship is reviewed with regard to three themes: discourses...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 105–120.
Published: 01 March 2019
... with active engagement in philanthropy, act as a lever with which to foster trust in the new social hierarchies and legitimize them across generations. The current generation of hyper-rich grew up on Soviet propaganda, which taught them that the capitalist system inevitably spawns gains for a few...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (1): 5–22.
Published: 01 March 2005
... of 1968, but we have little understanding of their often subterranean influence on the shape of cultural politics since the 1970s. This essay examines the historical case, and then tries to chart the path of Mao’s influence on educational reform, cultural and community activism, and legislative change...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (3): 354–371.
Published: 01 November 2018
... emphasizes silence as solitude. The hacker of the maker movement is framed as necessarily communal and social and as an active participant in debate ( Davies 2017a ; Toombs, Bardzell, and Bardzell 2015) ; here, silence can remind us that citizenship will include a distinction between self and collective...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 226–238.
Published: 01 July 2014
... , global , and world themselves ricochet meanings back into the realms of human life, its social organization and cultural forms. Life activities and related human consciousness are always, apart from anything else, matters of conceptualization and modes of understanding—Debord’s own distinctive...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 145–149.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Irving Goh Abstract While we disavow or renounce the virus that is ourselves in viral cultures such as a pandemic or systemic racism, we envy the viral force of others who are trending on social media. In viral cultures, we tend to think that virus is other people, forgetting our own viral...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (2): 233–252.
Published: 01 July 2012
... in the area of cultural studies, 4 and, as a result, ideology can be seen as a kind of thought system that is dominant in society and has a regulative effect on social activity. Therefore this concept can become a technical mode with which to examine the constitution of social thinking reflexively...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 326–347.
Published: 01 November 2017
... much a case of hatred of art as such—as a divided and divisive social phenomenon and activity—that forms the focus of the arguments regarding philistinism central to this article. Instead, specific types of cultural objects are targeted such as so-called degenerate, mostly modernist art in Nazi Germany...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (1): 73–99.
Published: 01 March 2008
... 2003) . These interconnected citizens, or “Smart Mobs” as Rheingold brands them, make up networks of “socially active individuals” who employ a miscellany of ICTs to “link diverse communities such as labour, ecological and various anti-capitalist movements” (ibid.: 182) with the aim of inventing “new...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (2): 217–232.
Published: 01 July 2016
... the demands of the free market economy, constructing this ability to work under market conditions as a value that should be cultivated and expanding its reach to increasingly cover a multitude of social activities. As David Harvey (2005 : 3, quoting Paul Treanor) puts it: “In so far as neoliberalism values...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 365–378.
Published: 01 November 2005
... to a territory. As a result, social criticism and activism as we have known them for the last hundred years may be reduced to what Virilio describes as a “neighborhood” activity. 1 Yet, we can add, where technology can make local activity reach a global consciousness or an international public, a sense...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (1): 75–100.
Published: 01 March 2005
..., often with no clear social good in mind, we argue below that a relatively unknown “hactivist” movement has also continued to develop that uses ICTs for progressive political ends (see below). In terms of the prehistory of Internet activism, we should also mention the community media movement...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 465–488.
Published: 01 November 2012
... beliefs and conscious social activities. The rioters were indeed resentful, but in the sense that their permanent consignment to the economic margins denied them access not to their own symbolic and political means of emancipation but to all that they have been told they should desire ( Carter 2011a...
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Published: 01 November 2013
of goods and commodities as part of the global economic narrative of a wider cultural exchange. Many of the works found at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale reference and are informed by ideas and theories of the city, of social and public space, and of broader socioeconomic issues affecting modernization
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