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Public Culture (2018) 30 (2): 305–327.
Published: 01 May 2018
... institutions in uncertain infrastructure. I set out to study bookmobiles in Haiti because of its extremely precarious infrastructure. On learning about a bookmobile project based in Port au Prince, I saw an opportunity to investigate libraries, mobility, and precarity and to think about how institutions...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (1 (69)): 39–63.
Published: 01 January 2013
..., for their generous availability. Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 ESSAY
The Precarious Truth of Asylum
Didier Fassin
Civilized countries did offer the right...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (1): 25–43.
Published: 01 January 2020
... and explores possible reasons that explain its current success, as these categories are used for thinking about, managing, and inhabiting situations of extreme precariousness, but which are nonetheless very different from the original cases of forced disappearance. The second movement involves developing...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 235–259.
Published: 01 May 2019
..., both in Turkey and in exile. The authors argue that the current struggles of oppositional academics inside and outside Turkey offer insight into the nature of the global crisis in neoliberal academia based on precarious working conditions and commodification of education. Some of the answers...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (3 (77)): 427–447.
Published: 01 September 2015
... of the precarious present. 2015 humanitarianism Lebanon mental health Palestinians refugee When I remarked to an employee of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), the UN agency with primary responsibility for providing assistance to Palestinian refugees over...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 449–469.
Published: 01 May 2011
... as hostile combatants. They were his moral unequals, the constitutive ellipses of satyagraha, without which nonviolence itself might lose its precarious ethical equilibrium. Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Thanks to Ritu Birla and Faisal Devji for insightful readings of previous...
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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 (3 (83)): 515–538.
Published: 01 September 2017
... not correspond to the hegemonic timescapes of the governing structures. The temporal state of exception can produce a condition of bare life that results from existential rupture: that is, having assumptions about the future made precarious by imposed forces. This was the effect that the experience, and very...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 375–384.
Published: 01 September 2022
... of many, which points to multiple displacements and experiences of violence, and to the ongoing precarious position of Black migrants and refugees in South Africa. In speaking of this experience, she articulated the importance of her shop, the market, and this area in Bellville to access the possibility...
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Public Culture (1993) 5 (3): 621–625.
Published: 01 September 1993
... memory is tom into tiny shreds, instants of recollection, minute half-
shredded flags smoking in a blue vacancy. And everything in this arena of our
displacement is to be elaborated, spelled out, precariously reconstructed. As for
the imperial quarters that were left behind, they are torn down...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (1 (93)): 65–85.
Published: 01 January 2021
... . Fassin Eric . 2012 . “ Xenophobia from Above and Precarious Democracy .” Lecture course, Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv, June 1–2 . http://vcrc.org.ua/en/eric-fassin-xenophobia/ . Fassin Didier , ed. 2019 . Deepening Divides: How Physical Borders and Social Boundaries Delineate...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (3 (74)): 579–580.
Published: 01 September 2014
... 2014 Akhavan, Niki. 2013. Electronic Iran: The Cultural Politics of an Online Evolution . New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Allison, Anne. 2013. Precarious Japan . Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Amar, Paul, and Vijay Prashad, eds. 2013. Dispatches from the Arab...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 281–304.
Published: 01 May 2015
... could be more precarious, more uncertain, than such a city, where systems of sustenance and livelihood hang by a thread and the simplest journey might send one plummeting into the void? But here’s the twist: “Suspended over the abyss, the life of Octavia’s inhabitants is less uncertain than in other...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (1): 1–3.
Published: 01 January 2020
... to provide the capacity for human dignity and survival. Lisa Richaud and Ash Amin moderate some of the brutal despondency we see in the experiences of Ribot, Faye, and Turner’s subjects. Richaud and Amin ask how the precarious endure, exploring the experiences of migrants to Chinese cities...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 387–405.
Published: 01 May 2015
... a space to explore the subjective and affective dimensions of deepening poverty in a prolonged period of neoliberal instability. If, as Guy Standing (2011) has argued, the heightened precariousness of everyday life turns the structurally vulnerable into a “new dangerous class,” the chronic boredom...
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Public Culture (2007) 19 (2): 273–301.
Published: 01 May 2007
..., 2005). See also, for a fantastic synthesis of the transnational problematic of
economic precariousness and “precarity” among youth across Europe, Angela Mitropoulos, “Pre-
cari-us?” Mute, January 9, 2006, www.metamute.org/en/node/7057. It is also worth saying...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (1 (69)): 1–3.
Published: 01 January 2013
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icine. His essay about the precariousness of truth considers how the meaning of
political asylum is established through international debates, national laws, and
the processing of concrete cases, as well as how the status of truth claims is evalu...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (3 (92)): 465–490.
Published: 01 September 2020
....” Such creative freedom is obviously precarious, even if still worth the risk of drudgery and burnout. This trade-off between freedom and work, I contend, demands closer critical scrutiny. Homesteaders’ desire to explore a range of alternatives to capitalism appears to converge with the postwork goal...
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Public Culture (2007) 19 (2): 303–305.
Published: 01 May 2007
... the condition and
consequence of disclosure. That is, knowledge of and power over any given
domain is both facilitated by and productive of various forms of enclosure. And,
in this vein, ethnography has a relatively precarious position...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (3 (92)): 491–512.
Published: 01 September 2020
... of mothering, inevitable sociality, and interdependence that are showcased, though not just as a romantic political community of belonging. McSpadden dares to lay out what the mere suggestion that Mamie Mobley-Till might want to get paid so precariously intimated: she narrates not just the story of Michael...
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