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Public Culture (2017) 29 (2 (82)): 227–234.
Published: 01 May 2017
... draws on current research on the everyday dynamics of social inclusion and exclusion among the parents of a New York City Parent-Teacher Association to highlight everyday practices of social inequality. Uncovering microsociological dynamics of inequality in settings where established structures...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (1 (69)): 5–23.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Guy Standing Progressive politics has always been about the struggle to reduce social inequities and inequalities. What takes priority depends on the type of society we live in. Today people in rich countries live in societies that are tertiary, not industrial, in that what they do is largely...
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (2 (67)): 385–419.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Teresa P. R. Caldeira A series of interventions by young men are transforming public spaces in São Paulo, Brazil, and articulating anew the profound social inequalities that have always marked them. The new urban practices include graffiti, pixação (São Paulo’s style of tagging), and new modes...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 275–288.
Published: 01 May 2019
... 2019 caste democracy India meritocracy In the lead-up to independence, Indian statesmen grappled with how to address persistent social inequalities within an emerging democratic polity. The end of colonial rule promised equal citizenship in place of subject-hood. At the same time...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (1 (93)): 65–85.
Published: 01 January 2021
.../site/about/ . References Al-Saji Alia . 2014 . “ The Past .” Paper presented at the Political Concepts Annual Conference, New School for Social Research, New York, NY , April 18 . Alvaredo Facundo , Cogneau Denis , and Piketty Thomas . 2017 . “ Income Inequality...
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Public Culture (2005) 17 (3): 467–486.
Published: 01 September 2005
... as well as with the Groupe de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Santé at the Université de Montréal. Her current work focuses on social inequality and health knowledges, particularly as manifested in the politics of canine diabetes. Classifying Diabetes...
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Public Culture (1996) 8 (2): 303–328.
Published: 01 May 1996
... as a comparison. Siio Paulo is the largest metropoli-
tan region (it has more than sixteen million inhabitants) of a society with one of
the most inequitable distributions of wealth in the world.’ In Siio Paulo, social
inequality is obvious. As a consequence, processes of spatial segregation are also...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (2): 343–376.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Michael Ralph If not quite in these words, some scholars and activists who have promoted a social movement based on the civil rights movement have implied that their project is undermined by “a whole lot of bitches jumpin' ship,” while few bother to question whether and to what extent that movement...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (2 (100)): 177–189.
Published: 01 May 2023
... also linked this area in the US South to decolonizing efforts in the Global South just prior to a neoliberal turn. Within these networks, victims of white supremacy modeled approaches to survival that are now broadly relevant to today's social and climate justice work. The story offers spatial tools...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (2): 219–227.
Published: 01 May 2009
...
war, the major metropolitan areas of Brazil witness violence usually attributed to
social inequity, poor governance, and conflict wrought by the drug trade. Since the
1980s increases in social violence produced by the globalized drug trade...
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Public Culture (2006) 18 (2): 257–263.
Published: 01 May 2006
... briefly, into recognizing profound social inequalities. The coincidence of
race and poverty was a national embarrassment, yet charitable responses far out-
stripped any effort to change social structure.
An especially inept government response made clear that though officials
had been spending...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2007) 19 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 January 2007
... of collective “public happiness” (a “tryst
with destiny,” as India’s Nehru proclaimed) was fleeting as the internal tensions
and contradictions — religious, ethnic, linguistic, and geographic, complicated,
as always, by deep social inequality...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 187–192.
Published: 01 May 2016
... study conducted in Mexico, anthropologists Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer track the messy politics of a large-scale project to harness wind power as a source of renewable energy, showing how the project’s champions ignored local social inequities and the political grievances of the people whose lives...
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (3 68): 447–449.
Published: 01 September 2012
.... Economic insecurity is rampant, social inequality is rising,
and few believe that better days are coming soon.
During the past year, however, the Occupy Wall Street movement has sparked
new political debates about the status of markets in the United States and, to
a lesser extent, internationally...
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Public Culture (2007) 19 (3): 483–498.
Published: 01 September 2007
... of greenness, covering up actual social and eco-
nomic inequalities with moralizing invocations of vague terms such as “respect”
and “responsibility” — these are tactics one is more used to recognizing in govern-
ment than in a furniture...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 365–373.
Published: 01 September 2022
... pandemic on the domestic life of these families. The pandemic does not arrive in an ahistorical place, as noted by Veena Das ( 2020a ). Battles for housing occurred in “normal” times. The global health crisis entangles with existing social inequalities and thus with housing problems. The recommended...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 197–214.
Published: 01 May 2019
..., is decidedly against social justice as the ground for diversity, at least if one defines social justice as a means for addressing historical inequality. Writing for the majority, then Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor quotes the earlier Bakke decision written by then Justice Powell. Recalling...
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (2): 311–334.
Published: 01 May 2002
...). Barbalet, J. M. 1993 . Citizenship, class inequality and resentment. In Citizenship and social theory ,edited by Bryan S. Turner. London: Sage. Bridger, Sue, and Frances Pine. 1998 . Surviving post-socialism: Local strategies and regional responses in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union...
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Public Culture (2024) 36 (2 (103)): 145–152.
Published: 01 May 2024
... practices, to create and sustain the power of elite groups through history. Through an interpretation of debates within the fields of Indology, science and technology studies, and media studies, the authors offer a response to the paradoxical relationship between technology and social inequality...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (1): 3–7.
Published: 01 January 2009
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rent phase of the war is characterized by the military’s partial recovery of its
power monopoly, by the tactical retreat of the FARC, and by negotiations between
the ELN and Uribe’s government. Despite profound social inequality in Colombia...
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