Publics And Counterpublics
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Publics And Counterpublics
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Author : Michael Warner
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-07-06
Publics And Counterpublics written by Michael Warner and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-06 with Social Science categories.
Publics and Counterpublics revolves around a central question: What is a public? The idea of a public is a cultural form, a kind of practical fiction, present in the modern world in a way that is very different from other or earlier societies. Like the idea of rights, or nations, or markets, it can now seem universal. But it has not always been so. Publics exist only by virtue of their imagining. They are a kind of fiction that has taken on life, and very potent life at that. Publics have some regular properties as a form, with powerful implications for the way our social world takes shape; but much of modern life involves struggles over the nature of publics and their interrelation. There are ambiguities, even contradictions in the idea of a public. As it is extended to new contexts and media, new polities and rhetorics, its meaning can be seen to change, in ways that we have scarcely begun to appreciate. By combining historical analysis, theoretical reflection, and extended case studies, Publics and Counterpublics shows how the idea of a public works as a formal device in modern culture and traces its implications for contemporary life. Michael Warner offers a revisionist account at the junction of two intellectual traditions with which he has been associated: public-sphere theory and queer theory. To public-sphere theory, this book brings a new emphasis on cultural forms, and a new focus on the dynamics of counterpublics. To queer theory, it brings a new way of seeing how queer culture (among other examples) is shaped by the counterpublic environment.
Publics And Counterpublics
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Author : Michael Warner
language : en
Publisher: Zone Books (NY)
Release Date : 2005
Publics And Counterpublics written by Michael Warner and has been published by Zone Books (NY) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Social Science categories.
An investigation of how the idea of a public as a central fiction of modern life informs our literature, politics, and culture.
After The Public Turn
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Author : Frank Farmer
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Release Date : 2013-04-15
After The Public Turn written by Frank Farmer and has been published by University Press of Colorado this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In After the Public Turn, author Frank Farmer argues that counterpublics and the people who make counterpublics—“citizen bricoleurs”—deserve a more prominent role in our scholarship and in our classrooms. Encouraging students to understand and consider resistant or oppositional discourse is a viable route toward mature participation as citizens in a democracy. Farmer examines two very different kinds of publics, cultural and disciplinary, and discusses two counterpublics within those broad categories: zine discourses and certain academic discourses. By juxtaposing these two significantly different kinds of publics, Farmer suggests that each discursive world can be seen, in its own distinct way, as a counterpublic, an oppositional social formation that has a stake in widening or altering public life as we know it. Drawing on major figures in rhetoric and cultural theory, Farmer builds his argument about composition teaching and its relation to the public sphere, leading to a more sophisticated understanding of public life and a deeper sense of what democratic citizenship means for our time.
Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities
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Author : Kanika Batra
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-08-01
Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities written by Kanika Batra and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-01 with Social Science categories.
Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities demonstrates how late twentieth century postcolonial print cultures initiated a public discourse on sexual activism and contends that postcolonial feminist and queer archives offer alternative histories of sexual precarity, vulnerability, and resistance. The book’s comparative focus on India, Jamaica, and South Africa extends the valences of postcolonial feminist and queer studies towards a historical examination of South-South interactions in the theory and praxis of sexual rights. Analyzing the circumstances of production and the contents of English-language and intermittently bilingual magazines and newsletters published between the late 1970s and the late 1990s, these sources offer a way to examine the convergences and divergences between postcolonial feminist, gay, and lesbian activism. It charts a set of concerns common to feminist, gay, and lesbian activist literature: retrogressive colonial-era legislation impacting the status of women and sexual minorities; a marked increase in sexual violence; piecemeal reproductive freedoms and sexual choice under neoliberalism; the emergence and management of the HIV/AIDS crisis; precariousness of lesbian and transgender concerns within feminist and LGBTQ+ movements; and Non-Governmental Organizations as major actors articulating sexual rights as human rights. This methodologically innovative work is based on archival historical research, analyses of national and international policy documents, close readings of activist publications, and conversations with activists and founding editors. This is an important intervention in the field of gender and sexuality studies and is the winner of the 2020 Feminist Futures, Subversive Histories prize in partnership with the NWSA. The book is key reading for scholars and students in gender, sexuality, comparative literature, and postcolonial studies. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Feminist Antifascism
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Author : Ewa Majewska
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2021-07-06
Feminist Antifascism written by Ewa Majewska and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-06 with Social Science categories.
Feminism as the bulwark against fascism In this exciting, innovative work, Polish feminist philosopher Ewa Majewska proposes a specifically feminist politics of antifascism. Mixing theoretical discussion with engaging reflections on personal experiences, Majewska proposes what she calls “counterpublics of the common” and “weak resistance,” offering an alternative to heroic forms of subjectivity produced by neoliberal capitalism and contemporary fascism.
Counterpublics And The State
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Author : Robert Asen
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2001-09-27
Counterpublics And The State written by Robert Asen and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-09-27 with Social Science categories.
Explores antagonistic encounters between people, both individuals and groups, and governments.
Photography And Its Publics
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Author : Melissa Miles
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-08-05
Photography And Its Publics written by Melissa Miles and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-05 with Art categories.
Photography is a ubiquitous part of the public sphere. Yet we rarely stop to think about the important role that photography plays in helping to define what and who constitute the public. Photography and Its Publics brings together leading experts and emerging thinkers to consider the special role of photography in shaping how the public is addressed, seen and represented.This book responds to a growing body of recent scholarship and flourishing interest in photography's connections to the law, society, culture, politics, social change, the media and visual ethics.Photography and Its Publics presents the public sphere as a vibrant setting where these realms are produced, contested and entwined. Public spheres involve yet exceed the limits of families, interest groups, identities and communities. They are dynamic realms of visibility, discussion, reflection and possible conflict among strangers of different race, age, gender, social and economic status. Through studies of photography in South America, North America, Europe and Australasia, the contributors consider how photography has changed the way we understand and locate the public sphere. As they address key themes including the referential and imaginative qualities of photography, the transnational circulation of photographs, online publics, social change, violence, conflict and the ethics of spectatorship, the authors provide new insight into photography's vital role in defining public life.
Selected Writings On Marxism
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Author : Stuart Hall
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2021-03-22
Selected Writings On Marxism written by Stuart Hall and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-22 with Political Science categories.
Throughout his career Stuart Hall engaged with Marxism in varying ways, actively rethinking it to address the political and cultural exigencies of the moment. This collection of Hall's key writings on Marxism surveys the questions central to his interpretations of and investments in Marxist theory and practice. It includes Hall's readings of canonical texts by Marx and Engels, Gramsci, and Althusser; his exchanges with other prominent thinkers about Marxism; his use of Marxist frameworks to theorize specific cultural phenomena and discourses; and some of his later work in which he distanced himself from his earlier attachments to Marxism. In addition, editor Gregor McLennan's introduction and commentary offer in-depth context and fresh interpretations of Hall's thought. Selected Writings on Marxism demonstrates that grasping Hall's complex relationship to Marxism is central to understanding the corpus of his work.
What Democracy Looks Like
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Author : Christina R. Foust
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2017-05-16
What Democracy Looks Like written by Christina R. Foust and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-16 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
A compelling and timely collection that combines two distinct but related theories in rhetoric and communication studies
Cityscapes Of Violence In Karachi
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Author : Nichola Khan
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-07-15
Cityscapes Of Violence In Karachi written by Nichola Khan and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-15 with Political Science categories.
Karachi is a city framed in the popular imagination by violence, be it criminality and gangsterism or political factionalism. That perception also dominates literary, cinematic and scholarly representations and discussions of this great metropolis. By commenting in different ways on the trials and tribulations of Karachi and Pakistan, the contributors to this innovative book on the city build on past writings to say something new or different -- to make their reader re-think how they understand the processes at work in this vast urban space. They scrutinise Karachi's diverse neighborhoods to show how violence is manifested locally and citywide into protest drinking, social and religious movements, class and cosmopolitanism, gang wars, and how it affects the fractured lives of militants and journalists, among others. Oral history and memoir feature strongly in the volume as do insights gleaned from anthropology and political science