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Public Culture (2006) 18 (3): 473–505.
Published: 01 September 2006
... with prostitutes. Rediff on the net. News page, August 22. www.rediff.com/news/2001/aug/22teh.htm . Bhushan, Phani. 2003. Re: E-governance and corruption. India E-gov Digest Number 213, September 12. www.groups.yahoo.com/group/india-egov . Boyer, Dominic. 2003 . Censorship as a vocation: The institutions...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 473–493.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Mila Samdub Abstract In Modi's India, a host of indices perform transparency, efficiency, and good governance but leave undeclared the political shifts they are bringing about. Dramatized in real-time dashboards, policy briefs, press reports, and social media posts, these technocratic numbers...
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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 (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 343–354.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Magdalena Małecka Abstract The article introduces the concept of the imaginary of behavioral governing to capture the view on the role of behavioral research in governing behavior that is widely shared in the academic and public discussions about behavioral policy (nudging), including the recent...
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Published: 01 January 2023
FIGURE 3 Activist and member of Myanmar’s National Unity Government Ei Thinzar Maung poses with a message for the United Nations, April 2021. Courtesy of Ei Thinzar Maung. More
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 281–304.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Austin Zeiderman; Sobia Ahmad Kaker; Jonathan Silver; Astrid Wood This essay examines the influence of uncertainty on how contemporary cities are planned, built, governed, and inhabited. This influence is demonstrated through the analysis of various domains of urban planning and governance...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (1): 145–171.
Published: 01 January 2019
...Christian Sorace In this essay, I argue that the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) affective sovereignty results from its ability to adapt confessional practices to fit its governing needs at different moments in history. I analyze what recent televised confessions of party cadres reveal about...
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (1 (66)): 185–216.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Vincanne Adams Processes of recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans were slowed by privatization of institutional public resources meant to help people return and rebuild. This article explores the specific relationships among private-sector corporations contracted by the government to help...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (1): 77–100.
Published: 01 January 2009
...Elizabeth A. Povinelli This essay probes discourses of millennial governance in current late liberal governance and contemporary critical theory. It examines a set of dilemmas for progressive critics when they mobilize discourses of sacrifice and sacrificial love against the millennial imaginary...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 201–212.
Published: 01 May 2015
... design and policy. While these efforts have long been stymied by a lack of sufficiently detailed data and limited computing power, these obstacles are rapidly being overcome. In response, a growing number of city governments and a new cadre of academic research centers are investing in data-intensive...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 331–348.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Keith Breckenridge Gandhi is conventionally viewed as a lifelong critic of Western modernity and colonial government. This essay shows that these views, which were famously expressed in Hind Swaraj , took form in his struggle against the Transvaal state between 1906 and 1908. Before that time...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (2 (73)): 233–255.
Published: 01 May 2014
... visualizations of performative environmental protests that took place in June 2012 against the Belo Monte Dam in Brazil. It claims that these visualizations are governed by a particular ontology that has its origins in the military and colonial activity of turning landscapes, and environments in general...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 305–330.
Published: 01 May 2015
... government. While scholars have recently drawn attention to the generativity of ignorance in the making of the state, in this article I argue that ignorance is not only a technology of politics, produced and managed by municipal water engineers and their subjects. Leakages, and the ignorances of leakages...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (3): 447–468.
Published: 01 September 2019
... phenomena that engage with risk and uncertainty in different ways: preventive policing, realestate speculation, and experimental modes of governance. These phenomena are in themselves not necessarily new; the specificity of speculative policing lies in the conjunction of these three phenomena...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 431–441.
Published: 01 September 2023
... into by states and companies that govern many extractive enclaves. Because concessions have a long, convoluted, and underexamined history, they are an ideal object for examining the shifting configurations of law, sovereignty, property, and government that undergird contemporary extraction. Neither simply public...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (2 (94)): 137–147.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Paula Kift Abstract In response to the COVID‐19 pandemic, governments around the world turned to contact‐tracing applications in an attempt to balance the reopening of the economy with keeping the virus at bay. But as this article demonstrates, contact‐tracing applications not only fail to protect...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 343–371.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Ciraj Rassool This essay is a study of how fixities of race and tribe were made out of multiple colonialisms and apartheid in South Africa, notwithstanding social fluidity and hybridity. It also examines how modes of racial and ethnic governance were contested, especially through the politics...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (2 (97)): 219–237.
Published: 01 May 2022
... and things at scale, the article argues that leaks have a more subtle purpose: they help govern the uncertain terrain between knowing and knowing enough. [email protected] Copyright 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 leaks design stealth technology The Cold War is difficult...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (1 (72)): 127–152.
Published: 01 January 2014
... to the Prince as a frame, the essay analyzes these strategies of rule as they were used by the United States government and by the Arab regimes in the context of the Arab uprisings of 2011. The essay contextualizes these strategies in the history of the Cold War, the rise of neoliberal economics...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (3 (83)): 433–455.
Published: 01 September 2017
... the concept of “stranger anxiety” to underscore the legal and bureaucratic work necessary to constitute heterosexual marriage as the basis for citizenship inclusion. Working from these two cases, the article analyzes how the Taiwanese government produces an equivalence between heterosexual unions...