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Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 285–297.
Published: 01 May 2011
.... DISLOCATION Violent Texts, Vulnerable Readers: Hind Swaraj and Its South African Audiences Isabel Hofmeyr In the first half of 1910, four English versions of Hind Swaraj appeared. The first...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (1 (96)): 47–70.
Published: 01 January 2022
... of the vulnerable . This ethic of mutual vulnerability works against financial markets’ “pooled risks” and capitalism's predilections to explain away its crippling eventualities with terms like “negative externalities” or “spillover effects.” • • • • • For decades, US public discussion of Central American...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (1): 25–43.
Published: 01 January 2020
... of dislocated identities, of sufferers, of escapees, of abandonment, of waste, of pariahs, of precarious individuals, of the vulnerable. Can the social disappeared be an explanans for the bad life? This is not something that academic uses normally encourage. While the categories forced disappearance...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (2 (91)): 349–354.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., drawing on a range of references that defied boundaries among disciplines, genres, epochs, and languages. Those qualities made them vulnerable to specialist rebuttals; almost every claim they made has been queried, criticized, or refuted by subsequent scholarship. No accredited academic still believes...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (2 (94)): 137–147.
Published: 01 May 2021
... the most vulnerable among us; they also shift responsibility for failing to prepare public‐health systems for a pandemic away from governments and onto the individual user struggling to contain its worst effects. In the process, contact‐tracing applications change the definition of failure. They also...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (2 (97)): 167–193.
Published: 01 May 2022
... time these systems, ultimately, are vulnerable to outside interception—opening them to a partial reversal of the surveillant gaze. [email protected] Copyright 2022 by Duke Universityc Press 2022 surveillance capitalism social reproduction counterterrorism Uyghur China Sometime...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (2 (97)): 195–217.
Published: 01 May 2022
..., but that it stakes a claim for the ethical virtue of exposure and vulnerability. That these viral commonwealths apprehend not exactly Covid itself, but the risk of infection, as a figure for the historicity of Blackness under the necropolitics of medical apartheid and social death. In order to stage...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 305–330.
Published: 01 May 2015
... appearances of leakage in Mumbai not only provide the grounds for the work of the state. Leakages also constantly disrupt governmental projects in ways that make the water department vulnerable both to the claims of marginalized subjects and to new reform projects in the city. 2015 citizenship state...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 359–387.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Liz Koslov Retreat, or relocating people and unbuilding land in places vulnerable to flooding and sea level rise, remains on the fringes of conversations about climate change adaptation. Yet already people throughout the world are moving away from the water en masse. Many more want to move but lack...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (2 (94)): 151–160.
Published: 01 May 2021
... situations make up a kind of algorithmic process that continuously produces new functions and new values for individual and collective capacities, backgrounds, and ways of doing things. This capacity, albeit facing new vulnerabilities and recalibration, will become increasingly important in shaping urban...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 389–413.
Published: 01 May 2016
... acerca del concepto de vulnerabilidad y su medición” (“Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change: Debates Surrounding the Concept of Vulnerability and Its Measurement”) ”. Revista colombiana de geografía 22 , no. 2 : 17 – 33 . Llorente María Victoria Gamboa Ángela Rivas . 2004...
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Public Culture (2007) 19 (2): 247–271.
Published: 01 May 2007
... of discussions and not others. This is one reason why Katrina has arguably failed to be a politically transformative event, despite widespread expressions of outrage at the role of structural inequality in making certain citizens vulnerable...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 415–441.
Published: 01 May 2016
... governments have raced to grapple with the shifting timescales in which climate change runs up against long-term localized ecological changes to multiply existing urban vulnerabilities. By viewing urbanization processes as emergent within a unique historical conjuncture, this research draws on the concept...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (1): 45–75.
Published: 01 January 2020
.... Increasingly, much development assistance is oriented toward “climate proofing” to shield people from climate stress and relieve climate-related damages, while diverting attention from the broader policy and political-economic causes of farmer vulnerabilities (see Watts 2015) . It targets aid toward providing...
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Public Culture (1993) 5 (3): 469–492.
Published: 01 September 1993
..., thereby conflating and equating ”Hindu” with the “nation.” Viewers, especially women, also perceived Draupadi as an icon of women’s vulnerability. The imaginative connections viewers made between themselves and Draupadi, between her...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 187–192.
Published: 01 May 2016
... doing research and writing about extreme weather events in cities for nearly two decades when Sandy hit. This current period, which a growing number of scholars are calling the “age of extremes,” has been punctuated by significant disasters that change the way we understand risk, vulnerability...
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Public Culture (2001) 13 (3): 557–580.
Published: 01 September 2001
... practice: A philosophical-ethical interpretation of nursing. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 8 : 43 -69. Goffman, Erving. 1961 . Asylum: Essays on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates . New York: Anchor. Goodin, Robert. 1985 . Protecting the vulnerable: A reanalysis...
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Public Culture (2006) 18 (2): 257–263.
Published: 01 May 2006
... of community, family, and collec- tive responsibility. Religious charities have aided the victims of misfortune with- out necessarily managing vulnerability. Members of medieval craft guilds cre- ated funds to sustain each other in the face...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (3 (83)): 515–538.
Published: 01 September 2017
... possibility that is nonetheless a goal that life is organized toward. Realizing that only the most “vulnerable” candidates are selected each year for resettlement, some refugees strategically organize their lives to suffer in various ways. Echoing how Bram Jansen (2008 : 569) describes “vulnerability...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (3): 625–644.
Published: 01 September 2019
... other criminal justice reforms, the effects of bodycam policy on vulnerable stakeholders must be taken into account if bodycams are to fulfil their promise to advance civil rights through accountability. Racial justice has been central to discourse about the costs and benefits of bodycams, as it has...