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Extracting Affect: Televised Cadre Confessions in China
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (1): 145–171.
Published: 01 January 2019
... China’s political order, its modes of legitimation, and its mechanisms of power. During the Mao era, confessions were intended as a form of self-transformation and redemption in the pursuit of constructing a new political subjectivity and utopian society. In the Xi era, the drama of confession is intended...
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Meritocracy and Democracy: Indian Reservations and the Politics of Caste
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 275–288.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Ajantha Subramanian From 1951 to 2008, India moved toward an embrace of caste quotas, or reservations, as a necessary mechanism of recompense and redistribution. At the same time, the focus on the appropriate criteria for determining “backwardness” left largely unaddressed the social bases...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 355–365.
Published: 01 September 2023
... policy mechanisms whose effect (whether explicitly intended or not) is to reduce the attention paid to a given problem, resulting in public inaction, not taking charge of a problem. It highlights the role in those dynamics of two factors: the scientific instruments attempting to quantify environmental...
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“Self-Help Rochdale Style”: Land Politics, Cooperatives, and Survival in the Black Belt
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Public Culture 11767231.
Published: 19 March 2025
... Crow yet also proved assimilable into the prevailing logics of American racial capitalism—namely, by absorbing the surpluses generated by a rapidly mechanizing plantation economy and shifting the financial burden of the New Deal’s social welfare expenditures onto impoverished Black communities...
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Data and Control a Digital Manifesto
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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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Secular Populism and the Semiotics of the Crowd in Turkey
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (3): 517–537.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Kabir Tambar In much of the Muslim world, secularization has proceeded through the modernizing mechanisms of the region's various states. By contrast, social movements committed to the (re)introduction of religion into public and political life have frequently functioned through appeals...
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Public Culture: A Durkheimian Genealogy
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Public Culture (1988) 1 (1): 11–16.
Published: 01 January 1988
... issues: the form a social structure has
and the kind of 'solidarity' that is associated with it. Hence, I shall speak of
'mechanical structure' as distinct from 'mechanical solidarity,' and of
'organic structure' as distinct from 'organic solidarity.'
Let us focus on the contrast made...
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Israel’s Biospatial Politics: Territory, Demography, and Effective Control
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (2): 199–220.
Published: 01 May 2018
... of a variety of mechanisms, including decisions relating to demographic classifications. Underscoring how the Judaization of land is tied to the state’s biopolitical techniques helps to make sense of the interplay among territory, demography, and effective control. Using Israel’s land-grabbing practices...
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Panoptical Intimacies
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Public Culture (1998) 10 (2): 285–311.
Published: 01 May 1998
... of the cells opposite us. The man in the exercise yard faces the buff-
colored wall and begins to swing his arms in rhythmic, mechanical circles.
Suddenly we realize that he has moved imperceptibly closer and closer to
the wall, impassively swinging one arm to hit it with each downward pass.
A dark...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 343–354.
Published: 01 September 2023
... is achieved via reliance on behavioral science often also presumes that this science provides a value-free account of “mechanisms of human cognition underlying behavior.” As I have argued, such a presumption is also widely shared in the debates about behavioral policy and is a result of operating within...
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Full Attachment
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Public Culture (1998) 10 (2): 443–449.
Published: 01 May 1998
... found solidarity among strangers—if it proves itself as a mechanism that
actually realizes the material conditions of preferred forms of life.” In this
enriched sense of “constitutional patriotism,” Habermas attaches a price tag to
Charles...
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Vaccine Politics and the Management of Public Reason
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (3 (77)): 419–425.
Published: 01 September 2015
.... The third tenet is the need to establish institutional mechanisms that can enforce the implementation of these expert recommendations. In the United States, the main enforcement mechanism is the requirement of proof of immunization as a prerequisite to school enrollment. Together, these principles define...
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Marking Time with Nike: The Illusion of the Durable
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Public Culture (1999) 11 (3): 499–526.
Published: 01 September 1999
... that is a person’s bodily, affective memory
and the cultural history of the perceptual mechanics of
motion—the techno-artistic conceptions of speed and
movement. It is in this complex, internally contradic-
tory, heterogeneous field that the Nike brand operates...
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Plasmatic Nature: Environmentalism and Animated Film
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (2 (73)): 301–318.
Published: 01 May 2014
... mechanization and commodification in twentieth-century societies, as well as with the broader subjection of human, animal, and plant bodies to industrial regimes of categorization and control. Animation emerged as an expressive medium in the 1910s, when industrialization took a new turn with the introduction...
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Transnationalism and Its Pasts
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Public Culture (1996) 9 (1): 93–112.
Published: 01 January 1996
...
internment makes clear that -state apparatuses worked to delineate a Japanese
transnation by means of manipulating mechanisms of U.S. citizenship, and thus
exposes a coercive element in this transnation formation. These narratives argue...
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Economic Crises and the Shape of Modern History
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (2 (67)): 303–327.
Published: 01 May 2012
... political consequences followed from the harvest failure by the same basic
mechanism as in 1789 (Labrousse 1956).
The simultaneous failure of the wheat and potato harvests in 1846 and 1847
set off the last general harvest-induced economic...
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News from Nowhere: The Discontents of Aijaz Ahmad
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Public Culture (1993) 6 (1): 97–131.
Published: 01 January 1993
... politics in a
world whose micro- and macrosystems, regimes, or logics seem tendentially or I03
actually poststructural. This is the sort of inquiry launched by Benjamin in the News from Nowhere
essay on mechanical reproduction and the monograph on baroque allegory. In
our own time...
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The Price of Honor: The Press versus Congress in the Rhetoric of Brazilian Politics
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Public Culture (2004) 16 (1): 31–46.
Published: 01 January 2004
... finish with an analysis
of a critical event involving journalists and members of Congress that exemplifies
the tensions between the media and politics in contemporary Brazil.
Honor, Power, and the New Brazilian Press Bill
The principles and mechanisms of honor and dishonor reveal how specific groups...
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Democracy’s Future: What’s Left?
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (2 70): 311–314.
Published: 01 March 2013
..., there is usually a reference in this picture to the
idea of politics as “bottom up.” But the “up” actually gets no attention at all. The
focus is solely on the celebration of the “bottom.” Nor is there any attention to the
mechanisms by which...
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (2 (67)): 249–259.
Published: 01 May 2012
...
positions the spectator as an all-seeing mechanical appendage. At the same time,
this omniscient viewpoint is complicated by a twofold remove: if the women
wearing this blend of sartorial styles appear as “outsiders” to the cultural realities...
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