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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 187–192.
Published: 01 May 2016
... and predicted it would sweep through the Caribbean islands and make landfall somewhere on the eastern seaboard of the United States. In Singapore, Jerome Whitington observes a different version of climate politics at work. Water management, flood control, and coastal protection have always been vital...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 291–315.
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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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 389–413.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Austin Zeiderman This essay foregrounds the political constituencies assembling around the problem of climate change in cities. Recent experiments in urban climate governance in Bogotá, Colombia, are shown to challenge liberal democratic notions of the “public” by linking a redistributive economic...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 415–441.
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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Published: 01 May 2016
Figure 2 Singapore’s water system as a semiclosed loop. Note that the two “climate-independent taps” are at the symbolic center of the circle meant to bypass rainfall and storm water management as natural variables. Illustration by the author based on Public Utilities Board 2014a. More
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 215–234.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Jessica R. Cattelino Beyond “diversity,” activists, scholars, and administrators increasingly turn to “climate” as a way of describing the often-inchoate feelings and (re) productive processes that constitute a world, including with reference to racial and gender justice on American college...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (1): 45–75.
Published: 01 January 2020
... as “climate refugees”—running from climate stress. These emigrants and their families, however, rarely mention the weather as a cause of their plight at home or their decisions to leave. They are fleeing abusive policies, exposure to markets, debt peonage, failures of social security systems and a sense...
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Published: 01 January 2017
Figure 15 Aladar and Victor Olgyay, “Bioclimatic Registration of Climate Data” and “Timetable of Climatic Needs.” From Olgyay and Olgyay, Solar Control and Shading Devices (1957). Reproduced with permission More
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Published: 01 January 2017
Figure 21 Screen shot from the climate design software Ecotect, now owned by Autodesk. Courtesy of Amrita Ghosh More
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (1 (81)): 129–164.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Figure 15 Aladar and Victor Olgyay, “Bioclimatic Registration of Climate Data” and “Timetable of Climatic Needs.” From Olgyay and Olgyay, Solar Control and Shading Devices (1957). Reproduced with permission ...
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Figure 13 Aladar and Victor Olgyay, “Method of Climatic Interpretation in Housing.” From Olgyay and Olgyay, Solar Control and Shading Devices (1957). Robert Geddes Papers. Reproduced with permission of Princeton University More
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 359–387.
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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Public Culture (2023) 35 (2 (100)): 177–189.
Published: 01 May 2023
... also linked this area in the US South to decolonizing efforts in the Global South just prior to a neoliberal turn. Within these networks, victims of white supremacy modeled approaches to survival that are now broadly relevant to today's social and climate justice work. The story offers spatial tools...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 351–357.
Published: 01 May 2016
... in Argentina, such as an increasing demand that is not matched by investment in supply, aging infrastructure, and lack of coordination between different programs. The article argues that these issues affect the city’s preparedness to confront the challenges of climate change and result in the failure...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 215–235.
Published: 01 May 2016
... to mitigate climate change and promote collaborative energy production, such as community-owned wind parks. Even when states adopt bold energy transition targets, as Mexico has done, the methods of transition can be deeply problematic. 2016 Anthropocene Mexico politics renewable energy wind power...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (3 (65)): 541–549.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Gökçe Günel Arguably serving as a cenotaph for the fourteenth-century explorer, Dubai’s Ibn Battuta Mall constitutes an insular space for which history, geography, and climate have been produced. This essay studies the spatial strategies used and represented therein and argues that the building...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (2 (73)): 281–300.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Robert P. Marzec; Allison Carruth Robert P. Marzec and Allison Carruth discuss climate change, environmental justice, and postcolonial studies with scholar and public intellectual Rob Nixon. Works Cited Carson Rachel . 2002 [1962]. Silent Spring . New York : Houghton Mifflin...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (2 (73)): 213–232.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Nicholas Mirzoeff This essay examines how the Anthropocene era caused by climate change has been visualized in art from the major industrial powers and how a countervisuality to it might be created. The people of New York seem strangely indifferent to the polluted condition of the harbor...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (2 (73)): 257–280.
Published: 01 May 2014
... the earth through visual tropes of the extraterrestrial. Mapping these “outer spaces”—terrae incognitae—within and outside the earth has been key to our modern understanding of the planet and to visualizing the global environment, including climate change. Turning to the militarization of outer space...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (2 (94)): 221–237.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Faisal Devji Abstract This article argues that the global emergence of children at the forefront of causes from climate change to education reveals a contradiction at the heart of politics. If politics is defined by the making of a future, the children who are meant to be its heirs are crucial...