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Public Culture (2018) 30 (3): 367–392.
Published: 01 September 2018
... often become the domain of the religious right. The article asks how this has happened, and whether human rights—widely accused of a retreat into technicalities at the expense of intense conviction—has lost anything along the way. In doing so, the article treats conscience as a historically embedded...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (2 (100)): 191–206.
Published: 01 May 2023
... and irreverence are coupled with deep conviction and (sometimes deadly) serious action. Writing as a multidisciplinary collective, the authors have witnessed irony playing a crucial role in diverse social movements — from BlackLivesMatter activists in Ghana, to post‐crash political imaginaries in Greece...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (3 (83)): 418–432.
Published: 01 September 2017
..., not so much out of strict religious or ideological convictions, but because he offers them a story and a path to realize an ideal of citizenship and manhood, in contrast to a cosmopolitanism that devalues them. By now the horn of the car I was riding in had worn out and was emitting only sickly squawks...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (1): 163–183.
Published: 01 January 2020
... and security guards help guarantee their conviction. This is precisely why some of the security professionals I spoke to help facilitate the extrajudicial punishment of imprisoned sex offenders. “Doesn’t that put you in the position of a judge?” I asked a security officer at the city jail when he boasted...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 275–284.
Published: 01 May 2011
... of South African crime statistics: Convictions for the period 1956 to 1988. Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council. Holtman, Barbara. 2008. Submission by the Civil Society Prison Reform Initiative to the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Constitutional Development on the Child Justice Bill...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (3): 645–663.
Published: 01 September 2019
..., a convicted mass murder and also a military police officer, later shows us around the apiary. “I got lost in the emotion,” he says. Pedro goes on to tell us, again, about how he ended up here twelve years ago. Sentenced to more than one hundred years in prison, he had gone on a killing spree. Off the job...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2019) 31 (3): 563–580.
Published: 01 September 2019
... the “preventive and not punitive motives of administrative detention” 11 and underscored that “the basic principles for the treatment of non-criminal and non-convicted detainees is that their relationships with the exterior [visits with friends and family] should be enlarged.” 12 Even as the ICRC complained...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1993) 6 (1): 201–212.
Published: 01 January 1993
..., state
official, and so forth. Being a representative of an established institution, one
has to obey the principles and convictions on which institutions such as the church
or the state are built. The "public use of reason," however, has to be absolutely
free. Here, every subject has...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2003) 15 (1): 41–54.
Published: 01 January 2003
... in a partly abstracted
mind inhabiting a bullet-torn body but otherwise either individual or collective,
Union or Confederate, here or there. The bullet strips away conviction and habit,
and we are not told much about what kind of subjectivity is left.
The line itself lingers in parentheses, floating...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (3 (71)): 477–493.
Published: 01 September 2013
...-Reymond and Jacques Loeb on the other side, was identified and found to be a viable path to walk on. When Wilhelm Johannsen (1911) proudly expressed his conviction that experimentation with the units of heredity was comparable to experimenting with the units of chemistry and of physics, he positioned...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (1): 77–100.
Published: 01 January 2009
...-dominated societies of the
Middle East and Southeast Asia but within the “heart of Western society.”17 Chris-
tian faiths are no longer content to constrict their religious fervor and conviction to
the inner sanctum of individual conscious or church. In the United States, politi-
cians court voters...
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Public Culture (1996) 9 (1): 93–112.
Published: 01 January 1996
... with and was subsequently convicted of violat-
ing the orders imposing curfew and commanding evacuation (Irons 1989:49). He
surrendered to the authorities in May 1942, and explained in a written statement
headed, “Why I refused to register for evacuation...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (1 (78)): 23–62.
Published: 01 January 2016
... to obtain adequate legal counsel. At the same time that prison populations were swelling, Southern state governments were strapped for resources, and increasing taxes to accommodate the influx of prisoners was not a viable option. The South’s solution to this crisis was to institute the convict lease system...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (2): 377–402.
Published: 01 May 2009
... Lebanon’s problems.
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Lebanon from 1976 to 2005.7 Thus, in keeping with this preference for observa- The Wrench and
tion of phenomena that actually occur and in the conviction that the highest stakes the Ratchet
in colonial struggles are usually local, this essay...
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Public Culture (2003) 15 (1): 103–126.
Published: 01 January 2003
... of public debate.5 My general aim is to identify and unravel some Disappointing
knots that are tying up our thoughts. Indigenous People
I am exploring public opinion and liberal convictions less as problem spaces to
be corrected or transcended by intellectual efforts...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1989) 1 (2): 84–85.
Published: 01 May 1989
...
of injecting more lively programming into their institutions and the reactions
to the sessions were positive. Yet we all left with the sobering conviction
that although curators can design museum programs which are vital, ongo-
ing and relevant to the visiting public, the initial task is to convince...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (1): 19–34.
Published: 01 January 2018
... dissatisfaction with the present also reaches into the past. The basic credo in this case is that even what was done well could be made better. Underlying this is a conviction that the unleashing of liberties creates more opportunities for a better society. This leads to conceptions of the good society...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (2 (94)): 151–160.
Published: 01 May 2021
.... There was the conviction that messy interchanges among different sentiments and actors would eventually produce something better than existed now, even when people might be hard-pressed to demonstrate real results. In the rough-and-tumble everyday worlds of trying to make the most from what was available, of putting...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (1): 127–147.
Published: 01 January 2010
..., or convictions associated with the
killings, rapes, mutilations, arson, and pillage. Partition took place when human
rights movements were more or less unknown, in a world just getting accustomed
to genocide and ethnic cleansing and the wanton destructiveness of the two world
wars. Ideologically driven...
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Public Culture (2005) 17 (3): 417–444.
Published: 01 September 2005
... mobilizes the
legal code to challenge his first conviction, and successfully represents his case
on appeal. In short, within the plot, it is fiction that mobilizes advocates to speak
more effectively for the Pasha. Thus, literature becomes...
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