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Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 301–317.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Charis Thompson Abstract The World Health Organization (WHO), the body charged with implementing global pandemic response, figured heavily in the Republican and Democratic campaigns of the 2020 US presidential election. The contrast was stark: Donald Trump drew on and ramped up dissatisfaction...
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Empowerment Money: The World Bank, Non-Governmental Organizations, and the Value of Culture in Egypt
Public Culture (2002) 14 (3): 493–513.
Published: 01 September 2002
... task as head of the NGO is to organize and develop the people
who will be the hand that can take and distribute that money.26
This man, who was the master of a small workshop, was acutely aware of the
new value of his neighborhood and its clout in the funding market. He under-
stood that he...
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in Filtered Life: Air Purification, Gender, and Cigarettes in the People's Republic of China
> Public Culture
Published: 01 May 2021
figure 8 2015 public-health campaign image attributed to the World Health Organization.
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 437–452.
Published: 01 September 2022
...M. C. Overholt Abstract In the midst of the global SARS-CoV-2 epidemiological crisis unfolds another contagion: the eviction epidemic. This essay attends to the work of Moms for Housing, an organization of formerly homeless and marginally housed Black mothers in Oakland, California who have...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 359–387.
Published: 01 May 2016
... the resources to do so. Residents working to organize their own retreat are engaged in a struggle for recognition and support from, paradoxically, the very governments and institutions responsible for planning, implementing, and managing retreat once it becomes necessary. In this article, I contrast dominant...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (1): 35–59.
Published: 01 January 2018
... insensible the logic of their modes of social organization. Referring to ethnographic examples, this article shows how affect analysis can help translate the insights of heterological societies, so as to eventually dismantle the current anthropocentrism. 20 Scheler’s work analyzes the distinctions...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (3): 411–424.
Published: 01 September 2010
... shares with the war on terror is the idea that we ought to organize our political life around the quest for security and that we can even recover a sense of moral purpose through the response to (environmental) emergencies. Here too the aim seems to be to scare us into submission, rather than open up new...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (2 70): 315–348.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Michael McQuarrie; Naresh Fernandes; Cassim Shepard This essay examines the relationship between the changing organization of urban space and the evolving political culture of a Mumbai slum. Recent work emphasizes that the contemporary city is highly fragmented and poor people are incapable...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 373–391.
Published: 01 May 2019
...), and thus the burden to actively resist (educate, lead, and organize) not fall on scholars of color alone and that the inherent tensions in diversity work must at all times remain foregrounded. Copyright 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 diversity higher education/academia anti-oppression work...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (3): 581–600.
Published: 01 September 2019
... as an instantiation of the tension between authority, visuality, and pain. Through a detailed analysis of prisoner testimonials, the policy manual Medical Management of Detainees on Hunger Strike , and a video project by human rights organization Reprieve featuring artist Yasiin Bey simulating the “proper” techniques...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (3 (92)): 465–490.
Published: 01 September 2020
... troubling contradictions in the “postwork” landscape, such as a deeper investment in private and individualized labor, an unstable relationship to land ownership, and a neoliberal retrenchment into a family-based organization of labor. Neo-homesteading, it is argued, makes visible both the radical...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (1): 175–209.
Published: 01 January 2009
... of the gaze allows us to glean signs of becoming, modes of making visible imagined modernities and communities. Despite their disparity, these sets of images organize temporal experiences in specific fashions. In the carte de visite , the testimony of continuity and of succeeding generations attests to a past...
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (3 68): 535–576.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Lynn Spigel This essay explores the history of George Nelson’s Storagewall in relation to a genealogy of invisible design, up through the computer. It explores the way the Storagewall served to hide media machines and also to organize the gendered relations of labor and leisure in media homes...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 387–405.
Published: 01 May 2015
... population—the homeless—bored day in and day out. In response, men discarded from work and home by a brutally competitive economy head into the bowels of the city’s transit hubs, where they organize a market for sexual favors. This essay takes this consumer-based response to deepening poverty...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (3 (83)): 457–480.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Kimberly A. Arkin In 2004 a French Jewish student union ran an ad against anti-Semitism using defaced images of Jesus and Mary. Denounced by an antiracist organization affiliated with Jewish interests, the ad was immediately pulled. Why? While the union intended the campaign to be provocative...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (3 (83)): 493–514.
Published: 01 September 2017
... is how pastors insist that photographs and videos allow the faithful to read users for signs of the soul. Contributing to the criminalization and mass incarceration of drug users, these images organize the outer edges of today’s war on drugs. Copyright © 2017 Duke University Press 2017...
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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 (2021) 33 (2 (94)): 239–259.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Chika Watanabe Abstract There is a growing trend to prepare children for future disasters. A Japanese nonprofit organization has developed an event called Iza! Kaeru Caravan , which includes games that teach children and their families how to survive disasters, from earthquakes to floods. Many...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (2 (94)): 151–160.
Published: 01 May 2021
... to a different “mathematics” of combination. Here the ways in which different economic practices, demeanors, behavioral tactics, forms of social organization, territory, and mobility intersect and detach, coalesce into enduring cultures of inhabitation or proliferate as momentary occupancies of short‐lived...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (2): 245–268.
Published: 01 May 2009
... create grounds
for calculating future profits and opportunities also open avenues for affective
discomfort. How does the organization of contemporary economic knowledge
elicit the perturbation or excitement of financial experts? Predictive...
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