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Book Review: The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship
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This article is published in Modern Fiction Studies.The article was published on 1998-12-01. It has received 325 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Queen (playing card) & Citizenship.read more
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The Promise of Happiness
TL;DR: The Promise of Happiness as mentioned in this paper is a critique of the imperative to be happy, which is defined as the expectation that we will be made happy by taking part in that which is deemed good, and that by being happy ourselves, we will make others happy.
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Invoking affect : Cultural theory and the ontological turn
TL;DR: In this paper, the contemporary emergence of affect as critical object and perspective through which to understand the social world and our place within it is examined, focusing on recent contributions of Brain Massumi and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick in particular, unpacking their celebration of the difference that affect makes.
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HCI and environmental sustainability: the politics of design and the design of politics
TL;DR: This paper examines the way that traditional HCI discourse obscures political and cultural contexts of environmental practice that must be part of an effective solution, and proposes that questions of scale might provide a useful new entry point for design practice.
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Mobile Transformations of 'Public' and 'Private' Life.
Mimi Sheller,John Urry +1 more
TL;DR: The distinction of public and private life is often conceived of as statically'regional' in character as mentioned in this paper, and it is argued that massive changes are occurring in the nature of both private and public life and especially of the relations between them.
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Mapping the Complexity of Public Pedagogy Scholarship: 1894–2010
TL;DR: This paper identified five primary categories of extant public pedagogy research: (a) citizenship within and beyond schools, (b) popular culture and everyday life, (c) informal institutions and public spaces, dominant cultural discourses, and public intellectualism and social activism.
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The Promise of Happiness
TL;DR: The Promise of Happiness as mentioned in this paper is a critique of the imperative to be happy, which is defined as the expectation that we will be made happy by taking part in that which is deemed good, and that by being happy ourselves, we will make others happy.
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Invoking affect : Cultural theory and the ontological turn
TL;DR: In this paper, the contemporary emergence of affect as critical object and perspective through which to understand the social world and our place within it is examined, focusing on recent contributions of Brain Massumi and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick in particular, unpacking their celebration of the difference that affect makes.
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Contemporary Discourses of Citizenship
TL;DR: This article examined texts related to citizenship and education from 1990 through 2003, identifying seven distinct but overlapping frameworks that ascribe meaning to citizenship, including the "civic republican" and "liberal" frameworks.
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HCI and environmental sustainability: the politics of design and the design of politics
TL;DR: This paper examines the way that traditional HCI discourse obscures political and cultural contexts of environmental practice that must be part of an effective solution, and proposes that questions of scale might provide a useful new entry point for design practice.
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Mobile Transformations of 'Public' and 'Private' Life.
Mimi Sheller,John Urry +1 more
TL;DR: The distinction of public and private life is often conceived of as statically'regional' in character as mentioned in this paper, and it is argued that massive changes are occurring in the nature of both private and public life and especially of the relations between them.