...Sibel Irzık 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Sibel Irzık Allegorical Lives: The Public and the Private in the Modern Turkish Novel In Lying Down to Die [Ölmeye Yatmak], Adalet Ağaoğlu’s first novel, published in the pro...

... of talking about race in the political and public sphere. Morrison's letter endorsing Barack Obama's presidential candidacy stands as a critical example of how such prose can effectively operate, and it models an increasingly ubiquitous form of communication between black intellectuals and politicians...

...Scott Warren No More Deaths provides humanitarian aid across several different public land jurisdictions, from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), to the National Park Service, to the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Each of these public lands agencies partners with the US Border Patrol in doing...

... of settler allyship and their potential cooptation of Indigenous assertions of jurisdiction when settlers recenter themselves in the struggle. A G A I N S T the D A Y Shianna McAllister From Sacred to Public: A Hidden Place into the Stein Valley Nlaka pamux Heritage Park The clear blue waters that flow...

...Christopher Newfield; Colleen Lye When then-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger cut the California higher education budget by 20 percent in 2009, the largest protests erupted on University of California campuses than had been seen in the United States since the 1960s. The struggle for public education...

... UCLA’s Underground Students Rise to Fight for Public Education The events at UCLA on November 19, 2009, the day of the UC Board of Regents’ vote to raise tuition, brought to light varying levels of activism and political consciousness as well as differing philosophies of political action...

...Margaret Gibson This essay examines the expansion of death and grief from private experience and spaces, into public spheres via a range of media events and communication technologies. This shift is increasingly acknowledged and documented in death studies and to some extent in media research...

... the privatization of the management of water and other local services of general interest. Ninety-five percent of those voting voted against allowing a profit to be made from managing a commons. This vote was against privatization but also against the old public model, which has at this time been completely...

...Melissa W. Wright Duke University Press 2006 Melissa W. Wright Public Women, Profit, and Femicide in Northern Mexico Since 2002, a social justice movement called Ni Una Mas has brought international attention...

...Ann Cvetkovich Duke University Press 2007 Ann Cvetkovich Public Feelings The editors’ invitation to write about how our work on “nonsexual” domains relates to our inter- est in sexuality very much spoke to me...

...Steve Wing; Leah Schinasi Duke University Press 2007 Steve Wing and Leah Schinasi Public Health Preparedness: Social Control or Social Justice? ​Public health preparedness refers to a society’s readiness to respond to sudden...

... of Open Defecation: Informality, Body, and Infrastructure in Mumbai.” Antipode 47 , no. 1 : 98 – 120 . Gershenson Olga Penner Barbara , eds. 2009 . Ladies and Gents: Public Toilets and Gender . Philadelphia : Temple University Press . Jewitt Sarah . 2011 . “Geographies...

...Dharman Jeyasingham Across many Western countries, a substantial proportion of public toilets have either closed or been materially adapted in order to prevent their use for sex, while sexual interactions in public spaces generally, and toilets in particular, are policed more effectively than ever...

...Joel Sanders; Susan Stryker A long-simmering moral panic over the presence of transgender people in sex-segregated public toilets has reached an acute state since the spring of 2015, as an unprecedented wave of mass-culture visibility for trans* issues has intersected with recent court decisions...

...Susan Buck-Morss; Jonathan Flatley; Helen Petrovsky This interview documents an email exchange between Susan Buck-Morss, Jonathan Flatley, and Helen Petrovsky on the occasion of the publication of Buck-Morss’s Revolution Today . © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 the Left Susan Buck-Morss...

...Samuel P. Nelson; Catherine Prendergast The commonplace justification of academic freedom, described in terms of professional norms and practices of the professoriate, often cites advancing the public interest in knowledge creation as a key basis for academic freedom. Yet the public's role remains...

...Marlon B. Ross This essay explores the notion of the race icon, a prominent public image or figure that stands in for a racial group, as it is exploited as a tool both for racial debasement and for racial uplift. The essay traces the public imaging of the heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis...

...Ravit Pe'er-Lamo Reichman This essay asks not how literature imagines the death penalty, but how it doesn't—and what this narrative resistance can tell us about our culture's relationship to capital punishment. With the abolition of public executions in England in 1868 (and the last public...

... as at the conjuncture of two contingent events: the failure of the over four-decade search for a “left governmentality” and the renewal of “liturgical power.” The latter arises from a displacement of public opinion in liberal democracy by the fluctuations of public mood as registered on social media, with a concomitant...

... evidenced by its multicultural and multiracial mobilizations during 2020 comprised and catalyzed several strategic social orientations, organized around the public ventilation of critical affective repertoires of Black feeling. The idea of Black feeling is emphasized historically and curatorially via...