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Published: 01 May 2017
Figure 4 Even churches can be turned into billboards. St. Hedwig’s Cathedral in downtown Berlin. Photograph by Virág Molnár More
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Published: 01 January 2017
Figure 3 The MIT Solar House, from the Saturday Evening Post , 1949 ( Barber 2016 : 103) More
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Published: 01 January 2023
FIGURE 14 Cartoon features a weeping “Myanmar” being abused by “war,” “Covid,“ and “Starvation” even as a spectator cheers Myanmar on. Courtesy of Artsy Fartsy. More
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Published: 01 January 2023
FIGURE 12 Meme featuring the different messages from Burmese protesters on Twitter versus Facebook; in the former, meek appeals to the international; in the latter, “The UN isn't going to come, come on! What is the NUG even doing?” March 2021. More
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (3): 551–576.
Published: 01 September 2009
... and the public activism of many whose forms of political communication are usually ignored, or even denounced as passive. But a more generous definition of the political, one that does not presume liberal democracy as its natural setting or emancipation as its aim, can show how even compliance and personal...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (1): 101–140.
Published: 01 January 2009
... of Toussaint Louverture and Victor Schoelcher and the legacies of the 1790s revolution in Saint-Domingue and the 1848 abolition of slavery. At these crucial turning points, imperial conditions had created the possibility of nonnational colonial emancipation even as certain kinds of instituted liberty...
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Public Culture (2008) 20 (3): 479–496.
Published: 01 September 2008
... development that aligns Qatar with the West. The contradictions ultimately prove too much for a typeface—and even for the nation—to sustain. Ultimately, what is branded is not a nation but a marketing-driven entity circulating amid flows of labor, capital, and image—a nation fetishized, a nation...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (3 (77)): 427–447.
Published: 01 September 2015
... of imagining their existence: not changing their conditions, but living differently with them. These projects make the claim that there is value to these lives even if they can never be improved. The challenge of how to value lives that can be neither saved nor improved is one of the central dilemmas...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 269–274.
Published: 01 May 2011
... be defended in the most murderous of ways. It was only by disregarding and even throwing life away, Gandhi maintained, that it might be protected. The love of death, in other words, might guarantee life far more effectively, if only as an indirect and unintended consequence, than making an absolute value...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 471–480.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Ritu Birla Gandhi's thematics of addiction mark him as acutely present in his time, even as they launch his temporal performativity. Publicized via transnational debates on the legality of opium and anxieties about the market as casino, the problem of addiction reflected the circulation of law...
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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 (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 (2010) 22 (3): 411–424.
Published: 01 September 2010
... shares with the war on terror is the idea that we ought to organize our political life around the quest for security and that we can even recover a sense of moral purpose through the response to (environmental) emergencies. Here too the aim seems to be to scare us into submission, rather than open up new...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (1): 33–65.
Published: 01 January 2010
... or dueling national claims to Israel/Palestine, exerts enormous existential pressure. This essay draws on an eclectic but substantial number of poems composed by canonical contemporary figures such as Nizār Qabbānī, Adonis, and Mahmoud Darwish to demonstrate how Arab poets strategically (even routinely...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (1): 89–117.
Published: 01 January 2010
...S. Lochlann Jain This essay analyzes the subject positioning demanded by randomized control trials (RCT). Taking seriously the fact that people in late-stage cancer treatments will die, even if one arm of the study receives a “successful” treatment, Jain argues that the RCT framework carries...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (1 (72)): 101–126.
Published: 01 January 2014
... screening policy arenas, we illustrate affective economies as a powerful catalyst for forms of political action that may inadvertently sustain public health inequities even as they seek to redress them. 18 Baily and Murray (2008) are appropriately cautious about interpreting such findings because...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (1): 3–18.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Kevin Lewis O’Neill; Jatin Dua Despite the number of people held at this very moment inside prisons, detention centers, black sites, reformatories, stockades, refugee camps, and even the hulls of ships, there has been surprisingly little self-consciousness about the analytical power of captivity...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 261–273.
Published: 01 May 2019
... suggests that this structure of sovereignty, premised on the adjudication of minority demands (for equality, for recognition), might also be the condition of possibility for its disruption, and even for new political arrangements to emerge. Indeed, a number of Muslim French now reject the paradigm...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (1 (72)): 153–185.
Published: 01 January 2014
... and function of a large swath of urban space, building by building. Critically, these structures were made through official site planning and building permits, even as they emerged out of the frictions between the prevailing logics of Swedish planning — emphasizing formal uniformity to achieve social equality...
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (1 (66)): 131–155.
Published: 01 January 2012
...-social formations of bottom billion capitalism. It argues that the work of converting poverty into capital is arduous and fragile and requires technologies of gender. While the analysis of neoliberal penality emphasizes the quarantine, and even banishment, of “at risk” subjects, this essay draws...