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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 187–192.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Eric Klinenberg Collectively, the articles and interviews in this issue help establish a research agenda for the social study of climate change adaptation, one that focuses on struggles over infrastructure provision, on the problems of forced migration and resettlement, on the politics of design...
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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)): 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 (2020) 32 (1): 45–75.
Published: 01 January 2020
... to motivate Europeans to fight climate change. While climate investments appear responsible and progressive, the climate focus denies the colonial and postcolonial histories of emigrants’ plights, thereby threatening to deepen the crisis. La précarité affecte profondément celui ou celle qui la subit; en...
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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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Public Culture (2023) 35 (2 (100)): 177–189.
Published: 01 May 2023
... and surprising histories to ground and energize a fresh wave of activism that looks to collective forms of urban and rural landholding to address racism, whiteness, inequality, reparations, and climate change. [email protected] Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 civil rights...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 393–403.
Published: 01 September 2023
... commitments to climate governance. Initially conceived by political leaders advising on disaster risk reduction at a 2013 UN General Assembly meeting, the IDF recognizes financial institutions, practices, and devices as integral to addressing climate change. Through its activities and investments in an open...
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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. AC: And what are the capacities of writing and of the environmental writer activist as you flesh them...
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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...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (3 (95)): 289–303.
Published: 01 September 2021
... the myriad ways our collective breathing is central to, and curtailed by, the American Aspiration. Grounded through the breath, it traces the deep entanglements of global pandemic, climate change, state violence, and lung cancer, and their combined social, political, and environmental implications...
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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. References Aguon Julian . 2008 . What We Bury at Night: Disposable Humanity . Tokyo...
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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 (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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Published: 01 May 2014
Figure 4 Reprinted from Anthony Costello et al., “Managing the Health Effects of Climate Change: Lancet and University College London Institute for Global Health Commission,” Lancet 373, no. 9676 (2009): 1693–1733, with permission from Elsevier. www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii More
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (2 (73)): 205–211.
Published: 01 May 2014
... . 2009 . “ Climate Change War Game: Major Findings and Background .” Working paper , Center for a New American Security , Washington, DC . Chaudhary Zahid R . 2012 . Afterimage of Empire: Photography in Nineteenth-Century India . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . De...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (2 (73)): 233–255.
Published: 01 May 2014
... . 2009 . “ Climate Change War Game: Major Findings and Background .” Working paper , Center for a New American Security , Washington, DC . Carruth Allison . In this issue. “ The Digital Cloud and the Micropolitics of Energy .” Public Culture 26 , no. 2 : 341 – 66 . Cronon William...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 215–234.
Published: 01 May 2019
... the question of whether and just how racial, gender, and other forms of diversity change things, rather than taking for granted that quantifiably measurable diversity is a proxy for a qualitatively different and more just world. In particular, the potential of climate and culture, I hold...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 279–288.
Published: 01 September 2023
... of financial investment on climate insurance. IDF views financial institutions and practices as integral to addressing climate change, and Vaughn's analysis reveals that its organizational structure depends on the efficient flow of information to manage the stigma often associated with finance capitalism. Her...