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This essay forum strives to build an integrative discussion for what is a fragmented interdisciplinary field of study on the public sphere. It is meant to accompany a mapping project we are calling the Public Sphere Guide and is co-sponsored by NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge. The forum provides a platform for discussions around current [...]


Wilting down

27May09

After, months of writing, not writing, redrafting, brooding here’s what I have to say:
Chapter 1: Tackles Nancy Fraser’s argument about the relationship between recognition and redistribution with examples from the Indian social movement organization I am studying. It shows the difficulty of building a working class women’s movement in the face of religious, caste, and [...]


Keywords

27Jan08

Gift OR Exchange (ECONOMIC THEORY)
Sacred OR Commodified/Commodity (CULTURAL STUDIES?)
Public OR Private, Sacred OR Secular (POLITICAL THEORY?)
Conscious Or Unconscious (PSYCHOLOGY)
Making do/ art (RHETORIC)
individual, subject, agent, citizen, consumer