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Public Culture (2003) 15 (1): 127–148.
Published: 01 January 2003
...Claudio Lomnitz © 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Claudio Lomnitz is a professor of history and anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Deep Mexico, Silent Mexico: An Anthropology of Nationalism (2001). Times of Crisis...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 387–405.
Published: 01 May 2015
... – 35 . Standing Guy . 2011 . The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class . London : Bloomsbury . Stuckler David King Lawrence McKee Martin 2009 . “ Mass Privatisation and the Post-Communist Mortality Crisis: A Cross-National Analysis .” Lancet 373 , no. 2 : 399 – 407...
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Public Culture (1995) 7 (2): 323–352.
Published: 01 May 1995
...Achille Mbembe; Janet Roitman Figures of the Subject in Times
of Crisis
Achille Mbembe and Janet Roitman
“Moi, quad quelque chose me dkpasse...
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Public Culture (2024) 36 (2 (103)): 145–152.
Published: 01 May 2024
... be released at moments of crisis to haunt and reshape the present. Rather, the real-time, machine-calculated, and predicted futures saturate the present, almost eliminating the distinction between the linear temporal divisions of modernist historiography. In producing epistemological solutions to the “chess...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (3 (83)): 515–538.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Georgina Ramsay The recent mass displacement of refugees has been described internationally as a “crisis.” But crisis implies eventfulness: a distinct problem that can be solved. The urgency of solving this problem of displacement has seen the use of expansive techniques of sovereignty across...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 261–289.
Published: 01 May 2016
... has followed suit, even as dwindling water supplies are being opaquely and unequally distributed. To make sense of the situation, I propose, through an exploration of the crisis’s origins and recent developments that builds on over one year of ethnographic fieldwork, a new approach to ecological...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 235–259.
Published: 01 May 2019
..., both in Turkey and in exile. The authors argue that the current struggles of oppositional academics inside and outside Turkey offer insight into the nature of the global crisis in neoliberal academia based on precarious working conditions and commodification of education. Some of the answers...
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (2 (67)): 303–327.
Published: 01 May 2012
...William H. Sewell, Jr. Inspired by the current world economic crisis, this article attempts to assess the place of economic crises in the longer history of capitalism. Combining perspectives from Karl Marx, Joseph A. Schumpeter, Hyman Minsky, and Giovanni Arrighi, the article moves from crises...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (3 (80)): 457–473.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh This article draws on research with and about refugees from across the Middle East and North Africa and examines the current Syrian refugee crisis through the tropes of visibility and invisibility. Adopting a deconstructive framework, it purposefully centralizes what has...
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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. References
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 201–212.
Published: 01 May 2015
... analysis and simulation of cities. While this campaign shares many similarities with computer-based efforts to study cities and inform urban policy during the United States’ urban crisis in the 1960s, the rise of the Internet presents new opportunities to involve citizens more actively, on a larger scale...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (3): 441–464.
Published: 01 September 2018
.... The instability of autonomy came to a head, the author argues, during the years when Mexico’s so-called war on drug trafficking was at its worst. Tracking tropes of the heteronomy of both “I” and “we,” the essay reveals how this period took shape, finally, as a public crisis of agency. Copyright © 2018 Duke...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (1): 25–32.
Published: 01 January 2010
... as well. How the West responds to this crisis, specifically to the democratic potential of nonsecular and nontheocratic forms of politics, is crucial. Copyright 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Parts of this essay draw on “Contested Secularisms in Turkey and Iran,” chap. 4 of my book...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (2): 343–376.
Published: 01 May 2009
... primarily by the tragic events of Hurricane Katrina, which intensified longing for a black leader who could quell the crisis. Revisiting this event helps me track efforts to recuperate a male leader that conform to popular ideas about how social movements proceed but which ignore the need for different...
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (1 (66)): 157–184.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Peter Redfield Expectations that people should live—even under extreme conditions of crisis, neglect, and poverty—now combine with doubts about the capacity of states to provide for their populations. One result has been a set of technologies built around minimalist forms of care. Created...
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (2 (67)): 329–356.
Published: 01 May 2012
... the gated community, exposing a fierce contest between elite and poor citizens over legitimate methods of tax collection and the social logics of indebtedness. The essay shows how discourses emblematic of the postdictatorship and post–financial crisis periods—human rights on the one hand and welfare...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (1 (69)): 65–84.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Seth Koven In this interview, Thomas Laqueur ranges widely across his childhood in 1940s Istanbul and 1950s small-town West Virginia to his “crisis” as a social historian that propelled him to cultural history and the study of sexuality and to his attempt to understand the cultural work of the dead...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (1 (69)): 115–141.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Stephen Graham; Renu Desai; Colin McFarlane This essay excavates the complex politics of water in contemporary Mumbai. In the context of a burgeoning water crisis in the city, it explores in detail how the city’s social and political elites demonize the efforts of inhabitants of Mumbai’s slums...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (3 (92)): 453–463.
Published: 01 September 2020
... a theological one, centered on the axiomatic value of free choice and imbued with a faith in the market’s judgment of our free choices. The system-wide effects of the global financial crisis, which did not correlate with any good or bad choices, shattered the legitimacy of the neoliberal order, but so far both...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 437–452.
Published: 01 September 2022
...M. C. Overholt Abstract In the midst of the global SARS-CoV-2 epidemiological crisis unfolds another contagion: the eviction epidemic. This essay attends to the work of Moms for Housing, an organization of formerly homeless and marginally housed Black mothers in Oakland, California who have...
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