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Public Culture (2014) 26 (1 (72)): 3–11.
Published: 01 January 2014
...Cathy N. Davidson Cathy N. Davidson analyzes new directions in higher education in light of both online learning, peer-to-peer, and connectivist methods of learning and the topdown, hierarchical, centralized online education being promoted by massive open online courses (MOOCs) emanating from a few...
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Published: 01 January 2018
Figure 1 The terraces used to reach the mountaintops. At present, they only cover the lower valleys. Above the terraces, residents have planted China firs. Most of the higher parts have been taken over by nature. Whereas Qinghe’s residents detest this view, urbanites — both Chinese and Western
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 373–391.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Gloria Diaz; Gabrielle Cabrera; Carla Moore; Laura Yakas In this article the authors address critical concerns about what is missing from discussions about diversity in higher education. Reflecting on their experiences as women marked as “diverse” subjects, the authors identify the nuance...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (2 (73)): 233–255.
Published: 01 May 2014
... on the productive possibilities of grounding thought and political agency not in transcendence but in “immanence”). However, the visual performances that punctuated the general protests of July 2012, while still assertions of identity, involved a confrontation with the key elements of the higher-order motor...
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Public Culture (1993) 6 (1): 231–237.
Published: 01 January 1993
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A Virtual University*
. . . Ken King, the new executive director of CREN, states, “If technology can
rescue higher education from its increasingly dire financial straits, then a virtual
higher education network supporting the building...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 215–234.
Published: 01 May 2019
... action measure. Copyright 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 campus climate law performativity Over the last several decades, climate has become an increasingly commonplace term for describing how higher education campuses feel, especially with regard to common vectors of structural...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 235–259.
Published: 01 May 2019
..., but many who are using their skills as researchers, writers, and teachers to resist a dark moment, in their case in the history of Turkish higher education. In doing so, they are an embodiment of the responsibility to explain and defend both higher education and democratic values.” We are three...
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Public Culture (1998) 10 (2): 431–442.
Published: 01 May 1998
... of abstraction, and Habermas
traces the developments and achievements that it has made possible. But there
are higher levels of abstraction beyond the nation-state; the better world polity
I received valuable comments and suggestions from Bill Maurer, Teresa Caldeira, Sally Falk
Moore, Jim Ferguson...
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Public Culture (1990) 2 (2): 82–101.
Published: 01 May 1990
..., Jameson exaggerates the significance of postmodernity.
But the argument of this paper is not only that there is a paradigm shift, but
that its significance is underestimated by Jameson. The entry of higher edu-
cation into the framing of the high-tech economy; the transformation of the
everyday...
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Public Culture (1991) 4 (1): 144–154.
Published: 01 January 1991
.... The unvarnished
truth is that the MLA’s sniffy complaint amounts to this: honeis not “one of us.” Her
writings confirm that virtue.
She teaches at NYU and is vice president of the National Association of Scholars, a
burgeoning organization resisting the politicization of higher education. She...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 289–322.
Published: 01 May 2019
... or by intellectual and political elites, a decolonizing diversity approach responds to the hegemony of diversity discourses in our institutions of higher education. This approach entails three elements: (1) a commitment to intellectual life (which undoes assumed binaries between intellectuals and activists...
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Public Culture (1992) 5 (1): 75–81.
Published: 01 January 1992
.... Power is always grotesque: Ubu
is always vulgar. To parody Montaigne, however high the throne, it’s never
higher than the king’s ass. And indeed, from Rabelais to Montaigne, to the
noblemen who competed to hold Louis XIV’s chamberpot, to the contem-
porary British fascination with the sexual...
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (3 68): 447–449.
Published: 01 September 2012
... market is booming but the
labor market and real estate market remain sluggish. Although the official unem-
ployment rate is down to 8 percent, it’s far higher among African Americans and
young people. The relatively high price of oil has substantially increased the cost
of living for everyone...
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Public Culture (1991) 3 (2): 159–164.
Published: 01 May 1991
... with something less than a war between
a million combatants. Clearly, the major reason for the American buildup and the increas-
ing likelihood of war is that the U.S. still believes in its right to project its power where
it pleases, for its own “higher” ends, wrapped in its own “higher“ morality...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 537–562.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., meet, talk, and exchange with each other. The affordance of urban form is its transactional capacity, or the capacity to allow flows of bodies, commodities, ideas, and money. The higher the flow, the higher the transactional capacity. The transactional capacity of a street with boundary walls...
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (1 (66)): 9–45.
Published: 01 January 2012
... of solidarity helped shape the higher level. One of the central points Anthony Giddens indicated
he had made when talking to Qaddafi was that representative democracy is necessary; see “My Chat
with the Colonel,” Guardian, March 9, 2007...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 359–387.
Published: 01 May 2016
.... But Staten Islanders seeking a move to higher ground were fighting an uphill battle. Aside from Cuomo, most political leaders refused to acknowledge retreat as a possibility, let alone a necessity, and dismissed those who wanted buyouts as anomalous, out of step with the city at large. “The only place where...
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Public Culture (2006) 18 (2): 413–435.
Published: 01 May 2006
... on the postmodern, 1983-1998 . London: Verso. Kirberg, Enrique. 1981a . Los nuevos profesionales: Educación universitaria de trabajadores: UTE, 1968-1973 (The new professionals: Workers' higher education: State Technical University, 1968-1973) . Guadalajara, Mexico: Instituto de Estudios Sociales, Universidad...
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Public Culture (1993) 5 (3): 431–449.
Published: 01 September 1993
... an
orientation of high/low, above/below, and so forth. This orientation tends to
influence the placement of the stars, by providing them with a "natural" location
in the upper plane of the visual field. The sign vehicle, star, conventionally may
signify a higher-order entity- in other words, one...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 351–357.
Published: 01 May 2016
... power demand (around twenty- four thousand megawatts), much higher than for the same months the previous and following years ( CNEA 2015 ). Argentines have taken advantage of sustained economic growth to purchase appliances and other consumer goods. The government incentivized consumption, too...
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