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Public Culture (2020) 32 (1): 107–131.
Published: 01 January 2020
...Jenn M. Jackson The American imperial project exploits race, class, gender, and sexual differences in the name of the state. But in what ways has the transformative nature of American imperialism intervened in the public and private lives of Black women? This essay asks, What impact has...
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Published: 01 September 2022
figure 4 Armed private guards escort Israeli children through Jerusalem's Old City. Photograph courtesy of author.
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Public Culture (2006) 18 (2): 257–263.
Published: 01 May 2006
...Craig Calhoun Duke University Press 2006 D O X A AT L A R G E
The Privatization of Risk
Craig Calhoun
The Hurricane Katrina disaster shocked Americans, at
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (1 (66)): 185–216.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Vincanne Adams Processes of recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans were slowed by privatization of institutional public resources meant to help people return and rebuild. This article explores the specific relationships among private-sector corporations contracted by the government to help...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 331–359.
Published: 01 May 2015
... of navigating roads at speed. I focus on call center drivers as an example through which to think about how such subjects figure in postliberalization Indian imaginaries—as border guards to middle-class private consumer pleasures and as call center workers with unvalorized labor. I use the cases of call center...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (1 (81)): 165–190.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Kenny Cupers This article examines theories of human territoriality and their historical role in the demise of public housing in Western Europe and North America between the 1960s and the 1980s. The neglect and privatization of the public housing stock and the withdrawal of the state in direct...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (2 (97)): 265–290.
Published: 01 May 2022
... assumptions about the supposedly different trajectories of the so‐called Global North and South. The post‐grid imaginary is at the center of a present and future struggle that is continuous with a global process that looks a lot like structural adjustment in the “Global South” and rampant privatization...
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Published: 01 January 2017
Figure 7 Photograph of the Canada Estate, published by Colin Ward (1973 : 16) to argue for the need for private space
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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 (2010) 22 (2): 265–291.
Published: 01 May 2010
... private traumas into a collective or cultural trauma. Copyright 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 This essay has benefited from presentations at the International Communication Association conference in Montreal; the Hebrew University; the University of California, Los Angeles; and Haifa...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (3 (74)): 379–392.
Published: 01 September 2014
..., competition for resources and skilled labor between state and nongovernmental organizations, and a cultural conception of information as a resource to be privately possessed and exploited rather than open to public access. Stories of both failure and success in the libraries offer hints as to what...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (3 (74)): 369–377.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Vicki Mayer The film and media industries have turned New Orleans into “Hollywood South,” a transformation that regularly reorients residents’ relationships with their physical environment. In this essay, I describe the connections I see between the privatization of public space and the impacts...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (2 (82)): 385–414.
Published: 01 May 2017
... is shrinking and control over its use has tightened considerably through zero-tolerance policing, growing surveillance, privatization, and gentrification. It argues that significant developments in digital media (e.g., the spread of mobile devices, photo sharing, blogging, and social networking sites) have...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 431–441.
Published: 01 September 2023
... law nor private right, concessions are a unique legal form designed to produce nonsystematic and exceptional legal spaces that remain central to capitalist societies today. [email protected] Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Freely available online through the Public Culture open...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 193–214.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Colin Jerolmack; Nina Berman This photo-essay examines how the leasing of private and public land for shale gas extraction (“fracking”) in Pennsylvania has initiated a “tragedy of the commons” in historically communal locales, degrading common-pool resources and weakening long-standing norms...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 437–452.
Published: 01 September 2022
... organized to confront dispossession, real-estate speculation, and the privatization of housing. Using Black feminist and queer of color intellectual frameworks as ciphers through which to interpret and properly attribute weight to the organization's activism, the essay argues that Moms for Housing not only...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (1 (96)): 9–19.
Published: 01 January 2022
...Allen Feldman Abstract This essay opens the question of the political genesis of fractal topologies from monolithic fronts of power and privation. The political front can no longer be encapsulated as a continuous norm‐provisioning ground. Emerging frontier zones of violence jettison anachronistic...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 301–317.
Published: 01 September 2023
... during COVID to put health justice and primary healthcare at the heart of global health policy. Both parties continued to prefer private philanthropic sources of funding for global vaccine initiatives, and both sought economic returns on vaccine development, potentially missing a rare opportunity...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (1 (78)): 9–21.
Published: 01 January 2016
...S. D. Chrostowska This short essay considers the increasingly nostalgic life of physical books. From immaculate leather-bound collections to “dummy” libraries, in private homes or department stores, since at least the mid-nineteenth century, old books have enjoyed past-directed affective...
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Public Culture 11714180.
Published: 19 March 2025
... that reclaims money's public powers for imaginative intersectional politics and media praxis. MotL understands money to be a boundless and contestable public utility that heterogeneously mediates collective life, jettisoning orthodox as well as Marxist reductions of money to a passive expression of private...
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