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Public Culture (2021) 33 (2 (94)): 151–160.
Published: 01 May 2021
...AbdouMaliq Simone; Vyjayanthi Rao Abstract Sustainable urban transformation increasingly relies upon technicities of computation and interoperability among variegated registers and domains. In contrast, the notion of an “urban majority,” first introduced by the authors nearly a decade ago, points...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 333–357.
Published: 01 September 2022
... is it concretely actualized by an urban majority making often unanticipated, unformatted uses of the urban to engender livelihoods in a dynamic and open-ended process? This is the key question undertaken in this collectively written piece. This means thinking about work, paid and unpaid, in ways that highlight...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (1 (69)): 115–141.
Published: 01 January 2013
... to hydrate their communities. Such demonization is paralleled by legal crackdowns and the deliberate destruction of improvised water infrastructure. The essay uses the Mumbai case study to reveal the costs of marginalizing the majority urban poor in global megacities: in public health, death rates...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (3): 517–537.
Published: 01 September 2009
... conducted in several of Turkey's major urban centers. The figure of the secularist crowd provides an image of secularism grounded not in the coercive apparatuses of the military and the modernizing bureaucracy but in an assertion of populism. This article explores the tentative formation of a secular...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (2 (94)): 129–133.
Published: 01 May 2021
... in the context of the planet” and not to succumb to “the temptation to see the planet solely through the lens of the virus.” (3) We've taken those words to heart. The present issue offers a somewhat dispersed set of articles about apps and air filters, shopping malls and circuses, urban majorities and children...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (3 (95)): 277–285.
Published: 01 September 2021
... a charged political question. The state sought to contain the always present urban majorities who work largely outside of the formal economy in precarious labor conditions (Simone and Rao 2021 ). “They are in public but do not represent a public” (Larkin 333). Within this milieu, digital cinema...
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Published: 01 January 2017
Figure 1 A screenshot of a GIS map of Palestinian Authority data from 2008, depicting major roads and urban areas in the West Bank and Gaza. For a more detailed view, see figure 5 . Map by the author. Data appear courtesy of Global Map of Palestine © ISCGM/Palestinian National Authority
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 359–364.
Published: 01 September 2022
... . Berkeley : University of California Press . Self Robert O. 2003 . American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Simone AbdouMaliq , and Rao Vyjayanthi . 2021 . “ Counting the Uncountable: Revisiting Urban Majorities...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (2 70): 201–208.
Published: 01 March 2013
...-tuning consumption and emission patterns (Institute for the Future 2012;
Lindsay 2010), cries out the city of planned interventions to reduce environmental
damage without sacrificing the poor urban majority.3
Fifth, these manifestations...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 415–441.
Published: 01 May 2016
... of governmental claims to its uniqueness in the region, and Singaporeans are well aware of their prosperity and ecological security relative to other major Southeast Asian cities. Furthermore, it is a mistake to interpret its approach as a recapitulation of Euro-American urbanism. On the contrary, its...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (1 (69)): 85–114.
Published: 01 January 2013
.... They are of course absolved of responsibility for
its remaining limitations and blind spots.
Public Culture 25:1 DOI 10.1215/08992363- 1890477
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Public Culture is flourishing in major universities, and urban questions are being...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (3): 447–468.
Published: 01 September 2019
... Metropolitan Region and involved various forms of legal exceptionalism. I show how these same areas were the focus of real-estate development and broader urban regeneration strategies that included the initiation of a major commercial development, a crackdown on informal economic activities, and the emergence...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 281–304.
Published: 01 May 2015
....” It is under these conditions, they argue, that a “constantly mutating majority” attempts “to secure for themselves the ongoing possibility to carve out a viable life” (ibid.: 316). In Bogotá, uncertainty is not simply an experiential reality of the urban poor, a problem for government to manage...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 319–325.
Published: 01 September 2022
... and meaningful places of cultural investment.” A new generation of urban analysts cast complicating light on several long-held assumptions. They observe densities in places that are not cities, avant-garde recombination on the front lines of urban survival, and minor public cultures just adjacent to major...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (2 70): 209–221.
Published: 01 March 2013
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visual orders. At the other extreme, a city’s sociality can bring out and underline
the urbanity of subject and setting and dilute more local or more essentialist sig-
nifiers; the need for new solidarities when cities confront major challenges can
bring this shift about.
In my research, I find...
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Public Culture (2000) 12 (3): 627–651.
Published: 01 September 2000
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Michael Jackson to his home a few years ago and had no trouble facilitating a Spectral Housing
major deal for Enron, a Texas-based multinational that wanted a major set of con- and Urban Cleansing
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Public Culture (2000) 12 (1): 207–213.
Published: 01 January 2000
...Néstor García Canclini © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Néstor García Canclini teaches anthropology and urban culture at the Universidad Autonomia Metropolitana in Mexico City. Among his many works is the recent Ciudad de los viajeros (1996). Borja, Jordi, and Manuel...
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (2): 311–334.
Published: 01 May 2002
... their workforces in order to increase
productivity and competitiveness.14 By late 1999, over 10 million urban workers
had been laid off—xiagang—and largely cut loose from the socialist welfare
system.15 The majority of these laid-off workers had once been members of a
privileged urban social class, the primary...
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Public Culture (1997) 10 (1): 135–167.
Published: 01 January 1997
... social relations are situated but a constitutive dimension of
the latter; it is one of the major expressions of the process of uneven geographi-
cal development through which the dynamics of capital accumulation and capi-
talist urbanization unfold (Smith 1992: 135–151). As Neil Smith (1990: 173...
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (1): 21–47.
Published: 01 January 2002
... of India’s major urban xeno-
phobic party, the Shiva Sena—the political economy of deindustrialization, and
the spectral politics of housing in Mumbai. I analyze the steady expansion of
anti-Muslim politics by the Shiva Sena, the radical inequality in access to living
space in the city...
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