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Public Culture (2001) 13 (3): 557–580.
Published: 01 September 2001
... York Times Magazine , 16 January, 58 -67. PC 13.3-14 Kittay 9/14/01 4:13 PM Page 557
When Caring Is Just and Justice
Is Caring: Justice and Mental
Retardation...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (1 (93)): 89–111.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Emily Apter Abstract This article summarizes a broader project on “just translation” that attempts to rethink translation in the framework of Western philosophies of right, Sittlichkeit (ethical norms, customs, practices), and theories of justice (Plato, Hegel, Rawls), as well as of recent work...
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Published: 01 January 2017
Figure 4 Donkey-zebra, from Malkit Shoshan’s project “ZOO or the Letter Z, just after Zionism.” Shoshan (2012) imagines “a white donkey . . . being transformed by a beautiful Palestinian boy into a zebra. This in order to fulfill the desire of the Gazans for normality, which in this case means
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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 22 Cartoon featuring a protester writing democracy slogans on the pavement: “But I'm just writing about the Democracy that you uncles respect. Why do you want to destroy [my sign]?” Courtesy of Phoesi Gwa.
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (2): 377–402.
Published: 01 May 2009
..., not just in the Arab world. Using concepts drawn from Jacques Rancière's work on discursive regimes, I show how the graffiti, chants, popular songs, video clips, signs, banners and dramatizations produced during the uprising wrench everyday discourses into an effective rhetoric of national resistance...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (1 (69)): 25–28.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Andrew Ross Working simply to pay off debt is an increasingly large component of the time quotient that characterizes our precarious economy. Since debts are the wages of the future, creditors are requiring debtors to tie up their time for decades to come. Just as the struggle over wages...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (2 (82)): 333–361.
Published: 01 May 2017
... representations of Islam and internal interpretations of divine intent. Far from being just exercises in interlingual equivalence, subtitling is a form of moral critique motivated by both postcolonial and theological imperatives. These acts of translation, and their internal debate at Iqraa, exceed the familiar...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (2 (82)): 363–384.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Hannah Knox This essay explores how contemporary political life is framed through engagements with material forms. Extending work that has demonstrated that politics is best understood not as a discursive or institutional sphere but as the effect of material engagements, the essay asks, just how...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (3): 441–464.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Rihan Yeh In Tijuana, across the US-Mexico border from San Diego, California, transnational flows precipitate anxieties over autonomous agency. This essay explores how these anxieties afflict not just individual “I”s but the city’s “we”s as well. Due to pressures associated with different types...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (3): 645–663.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Samira Bueno; Graham Denyer Willis; Shamus Khan; Madiha Tahir Between 2013 and 2016, police in one Brazilian city killed 3,287 people—66.5 percent of whom were black. It might not seem surprising, then, that this place is also one of the only in the world that has a prison just for police...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (2 (91)): 327–348.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., the way that deaths are dismissed when labeled as those of “narcos” produces a particular discomfort among people working at the blurry edges of the narco-economy. By analyzing these experiences through the lens of “the uncanny” this article argues that the subject position of the narco is not just...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (2 (100)): 177–189.
Published: 01 May 2023
... also linked this area in the US South to decolonizing efforts in the Global South just prior to a neoliberal turn. Within these networks, victims of white supremacy modeled approaches to survival that are now broadly relevant to today's social and climate justice work. The story offers spatial tools...
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Public Culture (2024) 36 (2 (103)): 255–277.
Published: 01 May 2024
... China, this kind of politics is a departure from the usual straightforward forms of popular resistance, as typified by the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest. Fiasco is not just any kind of failure. It is a kind of flop with performative flair, where repeated malfunctions and blunders escalate in often...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 359–387.
Published: 01 May 2016
... official representations of retreat as marginal, unpopular, and infeasible with existing cases of collective movement away from rising waters that demonstrate just the opposite. I argue that the word retreat is a valuable and necessary addition to the language of climate change adaptation, serving...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (3 (80)): 593–616.
Published: 01 September 2016
... to collective anxieties over the terms of everyday survival and the difficulty of determining just who is in charge. This essay is an ethnography of extorted life, mapping the expanding geographies of extortion in postwar Guatemala to illuminate how this cold-blooded business organizes life at the most intimate...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (3 (80)): 617–653.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Ayşe Parla; Ceren Özgül This article focuses on the state confiscation of the Surp Hagop Armenian cemetery as more than just another fact about the famous 2013 protests in Gezi Park in Istanbul. In addition to coming to terms with the limits of the Gezi uprising in relation to its claims...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (1): 85–112.
Published: 01 January 2018
... questions about not just how we live after the horrors of political killings but also how we live with them. With the situation escalating, the government declared that it would not arrest Gurung until the anticipatory bail request was settled in Kolkata. But June 14 and 15 passed without the case being...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (1): 133–162.
Published: 01 January 2020
... capacity, collective asthmatic risk, and distributed body parts. Life in law is now monitored through air quality indexes and climatological reports as much as X-rays or electrocardiograms, making it something not just shaped by the environment but itself an environmental condition. Following judicial...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (3 (74)): 559–577.
Published: 01 September 2014
... history. And the Annales journal modeled the way history was done in many parts of the world, not just in France and not just in Europe but also in South America and, increasingly in the 1960s, in the United States. So there was first of all the influence of French history. There was the fact...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 515–535.
Published: 01 September 2022
... on: the black man who left the stage in protest! NM: Well, the interesting thing is Mr. Nancy (played by the actor Orlando Jones) was fired from the series allegedly because he comes across as an angry Black man. And he just wasn't taking any shit from the producers. He wanted to make his part activist...
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