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Climate Change: Adaptation, Mitigation, and Critical Infrastructures

Eric Klinenberg
Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 187–192.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3427415
Published: 01 May 2016
... to the welfare of the island city-state. In recent years, Whitington argues, government officials have framed conventional population security policies as climate change adaptation strategies but have failed to plan for the kinds of large-scale ecological transformations that, to use his term, “pluripotential...
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The Infinity of Water: Climate Change Adaptation in the Arabian Peninsula

Gökçe Günel
Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 291–315.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3427463
Published: 01 May 2016
...Gökçe Günel This article examines the discourses and practices of climate change adaptation in the Arabian Peninsula. It suggests that climate change adaptation projects in the region are often attempts at reframing water-related challenges that are already present, regardless of the effects...
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Adaptive Publics: Building Climate Constituencies in Bogotá

Austin Zeiderman
Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 389–413.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3427499
Published: 01 May 2016
... agenda to the technical project of adaptation. An analysis of interventions aimed at building social infrastructure throughout the city’s hydrological systems reveals how the inclusion of the urban poor is enacted through practices of measurement. While urban politics in Latin America has long revolved...
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The Case for Retreat

Liz Koslov
Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 359–387.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3427487
Published: 01 May 2016
...Liz Koslov Retreat, or relocating people and unbuilding land in places vulnerable to flooding and sea level rise, remains on the fringes of conversations about climate change adaptation. Yet already people throughout the world are moving away from the water en masse. Many more want to move but lack...
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Modernist Infrastructure and the Vital Systems Security of Water: Singapore’s Pluripotent Climate Futures

Jerome Whitington
Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 415–441.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3427511
Published: 01 May 2016
...Jerome Whitington Singapore climate change adaptation planning for water infrastructure is assessed against the concept of “vital security systems.” Cast against the historicity of water planning and postcolonial urbanism, water supply, coastal protection, and flood control are understood in terms...
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Extracting Affect: Televised Cadre Confessions in China

Christian Sorace
Public Culture (2019) 31 (1): 145–171.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7181871
Published: 01 January 2019
...Christian Sorace In this essay, I argue that the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) affective sovereignty results from its ability to adapt confessional practices to fit its governing needs at different moments in history. I analyze what recent televised confessions of party cadres reveal about...
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Digital Juneteenth: Territorializing the Freedom Colony Diaspora

Andrea Roberts, Valentina Aduen, Jennifer Blanks, Schuyler Carter, Kendall Girault
Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 419–436.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9937339
Published: 01 September 2022
... diasporic descendants’ efforts to foster social cohesion. Consequently, The TXFC Project hosted a Facebook Live “talk show,” leveraging social media platforms to amplify freedom colony descendants’ work. The team analyzed event transcripts revealing cultural adaptations to socially restrictive conditions...
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Green Magic: On Technologies of Enchantment at Apple's Corporate Headquarters

Christo Sims
Public Culture (2022) 34 (2 (97)): 291–317.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9584778
Published: 01 May 2022
.... This essay queries this divergence in public responses to Apple's headquarters by examining how the campus has been designed to counter a growing disenchantment with neoliberalism, its technologies, and its environmental defilements. In doing so, the essay argues for the analytical potential of adapting...
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Designing Urban Democracy: Mapping Scales of Urban Identity

Ricky Burdett
Public Culture (2013) 25 (2 70): 349–367.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2020638
Published: 01 March 2013
... and implement robust spatial models that are capable of adaptation and change, at a time when city dynamics are both volatile and uncertain, choosing instead to opt for anachronistic, unidimensional, and rigid urban models that fail to live up to the social and environmental exigencies of twenty...
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On Alternative Modernities

Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar
Public Culture (1999) 11 (1): 1–18.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-11-1-1
Published: 01 January 1999
... adaptations” on the axis of convergence (or societal modernization). This idea of creative adaptation requires further elaboration. It does not mean that one can freely choose whatever one likes from the offerings of modernity. It is delusional...
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Postcolonial Performatives of Victimization

Kimberly Wedeven Segall
Public Culture (2002) 14 (3): 617–619.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-14-3-617
Published: 01 September 2002
... reliance on a continuous dialectic of inter- pellation and resistance. How has the language of victimization continued to invade Africa? How has the meaning of the victim signifier changed with trans- lation and adaptation? How have quotidian and artistic acts resisted this victim paradigm? To address...
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Culture's Public Face

Greg Urban
Public Culture (1993) 5 (2): 213–238.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-5-2-213
Published: 01 May 1993
... in the political arena, it has become difficult to see the other face for what it is. It is culture. But it is not the culture that some proponents of multiculturalism imagine, that is, not that of ancient traditions handed down across the generations, but that of malleability, adaptation...
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History without Chronology

Stefan Tanaka
Public Culture (2016) 28 (1 (78)): 161–186.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3325064
Published: 01 January 2016
... agents) that interact and, when they combine, “emerge” into more complex units. This basic interaction can be applied to the different scales of phenomena from cells to ecosystems ( Holland 1995) . What emerges depends on the nature of the interaction, the adaptations that occur, the environment...
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Climate of Anxiety in the Sahel: Emigration in Xenophobic Times

Jesse Ribot, Papa Faye, Matthew D. Turner
Public Culture (2020) 32 (1): 45–75.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7816293
Published: 01 January 2020
... Thomas A. Smucker et al. (2015 : 40) show how climate adaptation is compromised in Tanzania by giving “local government heavy responsibilities but few resources to pursue locally sensitive development.” 11 See absurd projects like the Great Green Wall in the Sahel now being justified as “climate...
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Two Theories of Modernity

Charles Taylor
Public Culture (1999) 11 (1): 153–174.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-11-1-153
Published: 01 January 1999
... of the institutional changes. Unlike the conservatives, they don’t want to refuse these innovations; they want, of course, to avoid the fate of those aboriginal people who have been engulfed and made over by the exter- nal power. What they are looking for is a creative adaptation, drawing on the cul- tural...
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On Wheels

Ralf D. Hotchkiss
Public Culture (2000) 12 (1): 43–50.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-12-1-43
Published: 01 January 2000
... adapted with permission from 1998 Medical and Health Annual © 1997 by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. See also his essay in The Sciences (July/August 1993). On Wheels Ralf D. Hotchkiss Four out of five people...
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Aeolian Extractivism and Community Wind in Southern Mexico

Cymene Howe, Dominic Boyer
Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 215–235.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3427427
Published: 01 May 2016
... intellectuals like González and Vásquez are insisting on new collective models of energy generation and climate adaptation. In our conversations with them, as in our conversations with Ixtepecan campesinos, questions of jobs and control over land were constant. But the ability to serve as an example to the rest...
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The Curry Eastern Takeaway

Madhu Jain
Public Culture (1990) 2 (2): 121–128.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2-2-121
Published: 01 May 1990
.... And all this long before Ronald Reagan. It all began with plagiarism. First came the Western remakes and the Curry Western was born. It reached its apogee in 1974 with the landmark film Sholay. The film was, to use a euphemistic word, an adaptation of The Magnificent Seven. It proved...
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(Ef)facing Culture: A Reply to Greg Urban

Marilyn Ivy
Public Culture (1993) 5 (2): 245–247.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-5-2-245
Published: 01 May 1993
... and discuss in terms of “truth,” “adaptation,” and fit to noumena. Because his use of culture thus slides between the two levels, a good deal of confusion results (further confusion also arises from the author’s shift between what other people say about culture and what he says about...
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The Diaspora in Indian Culture

Amitav Ghosh, Novelist
Public Culture (1989) 2 (1): 73–78.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2-1-73
Published: 01 January 1989
... that those other forms of cultural and social relation- ships that tie dispersed populations to the mother country are absent here. Take language for example. India exported her unique methods of adapting to linguistic diversity with her migrants. Wherever they went, Indian mi- grants proved...
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