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Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 417–429.
Published: 01 May 2011
... 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 (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 (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 . 2013 The disorders of such industrial bodies were coined “inborn...
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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 (2012) 24 (1 (66)): 109–129.
Published: 01 January 2012
... be paid or as a public good to be regulated by the state. Next Practices: Knowledge, Infrastructure, and Public Goods at the Bottom of the Pyramid Julia Elyachar NGOs, Organizational Infrastructure...
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Public Culture (2006) 18 (2): 413–435.
Published: 01 May 2006
.... A history of Chile, 1808-1994 . 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...
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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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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 More
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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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Public Culture (2008) 20 (3): 467–477.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Georges Canguilhem If a definition of health were possible without reference to some explicit knowledge, where would we seek its foundation? In this essay Georges Canguilhem takes up this question within philosophy, science, and medicine, exposing the assumptions necessary for various notions...
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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 (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 (2014) 26 (3 (74)): 529–558.
Published: 01 September 2014
... disciplinary settings; it can address sustained needs for knowledge and hopes for personal betterment by introducing a unique style of pedagogy based on both academic credentials and moral superiority. 2014 The people were seduced by corruption and did not listen to the “advice of the wise ones...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 237–259.
Published: 01 May 2016
... in efforts to sustain the existence of nonhuman life in a setting of intense competition over a diminishing and essential resource? What forms of knowledge are developed to gauge the health of threatened species, and what techniques are used to regulate the provision of water in the name of species...
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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 (2010) 22 (3): 433–463.
Published: 01 September 2010
... is to fundamentally devalue knowledge and expertise and assesses the impact of such devaluation on the democratic state form. MODELS OF INSECURITY “Sensitive but Unclassified”: Secrecy and the Counterterrorist State...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 January 2011
... in a relentless effort to displace the fault lines of power-knowledge. However, to what extent can this contemporary scholarship rid itself of the categories of nineteenth-century academic disciplines? By considering the third languages of the postcolonial world, one can address this predicament of thinking...