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in Bullets and Boomerangs: Proleptic Uses of Failure in Myanmar's Anti-coup Uprising
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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.
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Public Culture (2006) 18 (3): 473–505.
Published: 01 September 2006
... and forms of this glossy new governmentality.
Laptop Politician
In its most expansive moments, the vision that was e-governance appeared to
resolve the tension between what Jodi Dean (2002) has called “technocracy...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 473–493.
Published: 01 September 2022
... Austerity: Currents of Debt along a South Asian River . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . Bhuta Nehal . 2012 . “ Governmentalizing Sovereignty: Indexes of State Fragility and the Calculability of Political Order .” In Governance by Indicators , 132 – 62 . Oxford : Oxford University...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 343–354.
Published: 01 September 2023
... on governmentality, in which he identified an imaginary of governing individuals through knowledge that appeared in modern Western Europe. 4 Behavioral policy, as well as the academic and public debates about it, operate within this imaginary. Even though most discussions about nudging are not formulated...
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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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (2019) 31 (2): 393–408.
Published: 01 May 2019
... the structural arrangements that currently govern human life. In arguing that diversity is over, the essay seeks to grapple with the structural limits of our desires for an inclusive society in which foundational antiblackness continues to shape Canadian and more broadly North American regimes of power...
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (2 (67)): 239–247.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Jane Burbank; Frederick Cooper Empires—large, expansionist polities that govern different people differently—have a long history, compared with which the nation-state appears as a short-term formation with an uncertain future. Examining the trajectories of empires—their creations, conflicts...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (2 70): 307–310.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Wolfgang Pietsch This is a plea for democratic supervision and regulation of the large data sets that are currently being collected all over the digital world — a plea driven not by fears for the privacy of the individual but by worries that a privileged knowledge of the mechanics governing...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 331–359.
Published: 01 May 2015
... elaboration of neoliberal governmentality, by arguing that “practices that were ordinarily part of the pastoral power of government were suddenly rendered visible through dramatic civic judgments.” Yet, rather than this pastoral power (which is exercised through the continuous calculation and management...
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