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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 237–259.
Published: 01 May 2016
... whose onset is signaled by the smelt population’s decline. 2016 biodiversity climate change endangered species “We should be standing on five feet of snow,” declared California governor Jerry Brown in April 2015, as he announced the state’s first-ever mandatory restrictions on urban water...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 193–214.
Published: 01 May 2016
... forests” that can attract invasive species, degrade the ecosystem services provided by core forests, increase riparian erosion and stream sedimentation, and drive out endangered plants and animals that only thrive in core forest (ibid.). 13 Figure 9 Shale gas development in Tiadaghton State...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (1 (75)): 53–84.
Published: 01 January 2015
.../the-oracle-of-silicon-valley.html . Conway Flo Siegelman Jim 2005 . Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener, the Father of Cybernetics . New York : Basic Books . Etzioni Amitai . 2006 . “ Are Public Intellectuals an Endangered Species? ” In Public...
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Public Culture (2001) 13 (1): 1–12.
Published: 01 January 2001
... and
native tongues are overmanaged, banned, or reduced to the status of endangered
species. Michael North’s analysis in this issue of the “rotten English” deployed
by Ken Saro-Wiwa addresses the violent stigmas and stakes carried by “other...
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Public Culture (2006) 18 (2): 281–300.
Published: 01 May 2006
...
crosscutters, like the former liberal Republicans, have become an endangered
species, as we can see in the fate of the Bush dynasty as it swings from liberal
Northeast Republicans to raging Texas ideologues in two generations. The rest...
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Public Culture (1991) 4 (1): 131–140.
Published: 01 January 1991
..., along with most other
cultural practices, are quickly disappearing and the environment is threat-
ened by oil pipelines, roads, and logging. Drawing attention to the relation-
ship between cultural and ecological destruction in rainforests, the notes
propose the term “endangered music” to help...
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Public Culture (2007) 19 (3): 499–520.
Published: 01 September 2007
... there for the team to remain? If the risks were high,
what justified taking them? What use was a team on the spot, within the confined
and endangered space where it found itself? It was the question of the usefulness
of the mission that generated...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 361–386.
Published: 01 May 2015
... Review of Anthropology 35 , no. 2 : 295 – 315 . Haraway Donna . 2007 . When Species Meet . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Hayden Cori . 2003 . When Nature Goes Public: The Making and Unmaking of Bioprospecting in Mexico . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (1 (81)): 191–215.
Published: 01 January 2017
... . Kais Roi . 2014 . “ Israel Helps Transfer Lions from Stricken Gaza Zoo to Jordan .” Ynet , September 30 . www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4576346,00.html . Kim Claire Jean . 2015 . Dangerous Crossings: Race, Species, and Nature in a Multicultural Age . Cambridge : Cambridge...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (2 (73)): 213–232.
Published: 01 May 2014
.... Extinction of nonhuman species has already reached unprecedented levels. Scientists have suggested that we need to classify the moment as the sixth mass extinction in earth’s history ( Novacek 2007 ). For example, no less than a third of amphibian species are currently threatened with extinction ( Wake...
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Public Culture (1997) 9 (2): 209–232.
Published: 01 May 1997
... endangered social wel-
fare state.3 In my opinion this is an invitation that those of us who identify with
the academic left have excellent reasons to entertain, among them our immediate
institutional self-interest and, however paradoxical it may seem...
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Public Culture (2006) 18 (1): 209–246.
Published: 01 January 2006
... of crime, violence, and the state in postcolonial South Africa.
1. See www.polity.org.za/html/govdocs/speeches/1999/sp0205.htm.
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Public Culture species of commodified knowledge, one whose value...
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Public Culture (1991) 3 (2): 93–112.
Published: 01 May 1991
... stories in middle-class Bengal, general nationalist sentiments enhanced the saris
value as a species of endangered aadition.
l1 Sindur is a kind of red powder that a married woman in Bengal customarily wears in
the parting of her hair and in the fonn ola dot on her forehead. It is meant...
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Public Culture (2001) 13 (1): 65–80.
Published: 01 January 2001
... and enhance its growing grip on international com-
munication, it needs to contain Balkanization by patrolling linguistic breakaway
groups, supporting linguicide or the stamping out of “useless” endangered lan-
guage species...
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Empowerment Money: The World Bank, Non-Governmental Organizations, and the Value of Culture in Egypt
Public Culture (2002) 14 (3): 493–513.
Published: 01 September 2002
....24 This is the specie of microinformality. To save the reader’s eyes and men-
tal tongue, and to indicate this conceptual unity, I will use this term in much of
what follows.
Microinformality is an amorphous object for development...
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Managing the Other of Nature: Sustainability, Spectacle, and Global Regimes of Capital in Ecotourism
Public Culture (1996) 8 (3): 539–566.
Published: 01 September 1996
... vegetation, litter, pollute water, start forest fires, poach and introduce exotic species,
disturb wildlife behavior patterns, and even irreparably have caused the Minute and Ebony geysers
to cease erupting by tossing litter in their mouths (Glick 1991:65-66...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (1 (81)): 79–112.
Published: 01 January 2017
... of animal species, one at a time, each detailing hunting location and each hunter’s activities. Collaborative maps had become an indigenous tool for facing the legal contestation of native land. Faced with these maps, judges tended to rule in favor of the tribes’ sovereignty and against logging...
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Public Culture (2007) 19 (3): 521–566.
Published: 01 September 2007
..., traits that
are always specific to that time and place. The rhetorical boundary that separates
humans and nonhumans is notoriously labile, though it is worth making the obvi-
ous point that humans — in the generic — always (almost always?) retain their
position at the top of any species hierarchy...
