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Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 417–429.
Published: 01 May 2011
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Patience, Inwardness, and
Self-Knowledge in Gandhi’s
Hind Swaraj
Uday S. Mehta
Patience is a peculiar quality, especially when viewed from
a moral or political perspective. By itself it appears to have no moral...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (1): 113–142.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Bregje F. van Eekelen In the United States, ideas from blue-collar workers were coveted objects during World War II. In an effort to “outthink” the Axis, an unusual organization of knowledge production emerged, in which workers were implored to share their ideas with a nation at war. This article...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (3 (71)): 463–475.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Kaushik Sunder Rajan; Sabina Leonelli This essay examines the notion of “translational research,” which has become a dominant form of the institutionalization and practice of contemporary biomedicine, as an entry point into theorizing questions of knowledge, value, and their articulations. We...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 405–416.
Published: 01 September 2023
... and government officials turned to digital computing to help make decisions under the unavoidable pressures of geopolitical uncertainty. By the 1970s, their data banks of political knowledge and novel statistical tools purported to forecast political unrest long before an unaided human could. These efforts...
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (1 (66)): 109–129.
Published: 01 January 2012
..., and the development concept . In International development and the social sciences: Essays on the history and politics of knowledge , edited by Cooper Frederick Packard Randall . Berkeley : University of California Press . Cooper Frederick Packard Randall , eds. 1997 . International...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (3 (71)): 495–522.
Published: 01 September 2013
.... Close examination of the explanatory frameworks and experimental design of the contemporary metabolic sciences answers, with some specificity, the question of the knowledge effects of obesity and diabetes research, or fat knowledge . This material is based upon work supported by the American Council...
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Public Culture (2006) 18 (2): 413–435.
Published: 01 May 2006
... . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Délano, Manuel, and Hugo Traslaviña. 1989 . La herencia de los Chicago Boys (The legacy of the Chicago Boys) . Santiago: Las Ediciones del Ornitorrinco. Foucault, Michel. 1972 . The archaeology of knowledge , translated by Alan M. Sheridan Smith. New York...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (1): 173–196.
Published: 01 January 2019
... as a field within which knowledge is produced and legitimated, and also how these constructed knowledges are marketed and circulated to consuming publics. I focus on two spheres of knowledge production—the legal system and the media—to demonstrate how each contains technologies of truth-making, and I argue...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 343–354.
Published: 01 September 2023
... debates about reliance on big data and algorithms to influence people's behavior. It is believed that behavioral science provides knowledge of stable regularities of behavior and of the cognitive processes that lead to them, and that policymakers/governments act upon this knowledge to change behavior...
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Public Culture 11593105.
Published: 20 February 2025
... of knowledges (both religious and more secular) compete and collaborate through the building of a massive hajj infrastructure (the Jamarāt Bridge) and its system of logistical optimization ( tafwīj ). While the author is generally interested in how Mecca comes to be useful for these new crowd sciences...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 121–156.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Ann Laura Stoler If the Republic and Empire are now difficult to view as mutually exclusive categories in contemporary France, few scholars have sought to address the conventions of knowledge production that have made France's own history of a racialized polity so rarely a subject for the French...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (2): 245–268.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Caitlin Zaloom Financial prediction provokes intense affect. For bond traders, hedge fund managers, and economic planners, both statistical reasoning and affective discomfort surround professional judgments about the future. This article argues that contemporary financial knowledge is organized...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (1 (81)): 53–78.
Published: 01 January 2017
... Israeli occupation influence the digital maps made by the Palestinian Authority. Through an investigation into the borders, roads, and urban areas of one such map and its related scientific practices, I analyze how knowledge of the occupation is shaped by the occupation. Drawing upon widespread...
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Published: 01 September 2022
figure 1 The Atlantic Forest is the space where elements that maintain the Guarani way of life are present. It is also where the Guarani keep their forest archives. The Guarani maintain their traditional knowledge through learning with the use of this living archive, which needs constant
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (2 (97)): 243–264.
Published: 01 May 2022
... systems of knowledge and life forms and of the colonial inheritance and epistemicide. The article follows various historical events, such as Léopold Sédar Senghor's encounter with African art in Paris after World War I and the British colonial destruction of the Kingdom of Benin in 1897; turns...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (3 (80)): 457–473.
Published: 01 September 2016
... previously been assigned a peripheral position throughout the ever-expanding “archive of knowledge” (following Foucault) vis-à-vis particular refugee situations and critically interrogates how, why, and with what effect only certain bodies, identity markers, and models of humanitarian response become...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (3 (74)): 469–500.
Published: 01 September 2014
... on the production of geopolitical knowledge and the accumulation of geopolitical power through the deployment of satellite imagery. 2014 So as to abolish hidden, undetected, unwitnessed suffering from the world and honestly to deny it, one was in the past virtually compelled to invent gods and genii of all...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (3 (80)): 475–497.
Published: 01 September 2016
... end to illness, might instead be figured as an ending lacking finality. Like promises, cures for tuberculosis can be broken. Thinking at the limits of cure makes possible a reflection on the persistence of “curable diseases” into the present, as well as on the ways in which therapeutic knowledge comes...
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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 (2022) 34 (2 (97)): 219–237.
Published: 01 May 2022
... examples of an increasingly visible phenomenon: disclosures about large, closely guarded design, manufacturing, and administrative efforts before their official unveiling. Rather than simply policing the boundary between the secret and the public, in “big” design, in collective efforts to produce knowledge...
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