Publicness

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 471-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles T. Goodsell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Responsibility Of Government

The Publicness discussed here exists when the society as a whole is working hard on behalf of its hungry and unsafe. Such work is not the responsibility of government alone but its private institutions as well. When studied closely, one finds in the United States a remarkably diverse and interpenetrated array of antipoverty activity across the public and private arenas. Its totality is regarded as an aggregate and identifiable yet scarcely recognized realm of pan-society activity named Publicness. Whether its present extent is sufficient is most doubtful.

scholarly journals The Social Oikos

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-32
Author(s):  
Michael Lee Humphrey
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Self ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Social ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Core Points

In one of the foundational articles of persona studies, Marshall and Barbour (2015) look to Hannah Arendt for development of a key concept within the larger persona framework: “Arendt saw the need to construct clear and separate public and private identities. What can be discerned from this understanding of the public and the private is a nuanced sense of the significance of persona: the presentation of the self for public comportment and expression” (2015, p. 3). But as far back as the ancient world from which Arendt draws her insights, the affordance of persona was not evenly distributed. As Gines (2014) argues, the realm of the household, oikos, was a space of subjugation of those who were forced to be “private,” tending to the necessities of life, while others were privileged with life in the public at their expense. To demonstrate the core points of this essay, I use textual analysis of a YouTube family vlog, featuring a Black mother in the United States, whose persona rapidly changed after she and her White husband divorced. By critically examining Arendt’s concepts around public, private, and social, a more nuanced understanding of how personas are formed in unjust cultures can help us theorize persona studies in more egalitarian and robust ways.

A Lack of Language – Waging War or Combatting Crime? The Blurred Rule of International Law in the Face of the Attacks of September 11, 2001

2001 ◽  
Vol 2 (17) ◽  
Author(s):  
Claus Binder
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Nations ◽  
International Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
September 11 ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Self Defense ◽  
The Face ◽  
The United Nations

After the terrorists' attacks of September 11, 2001, a lot of war rhetoric came out of the public and private sphere within the United States of America. On October 7, 2001, however, the rhetoric turned into reality as President George W. Bush countered the terrorist attacks and the threat of future terrorism with military means. While waging that new war U.S. governmental officials constantly make one important point, and that is that the United States are just exercising their right of self-defense. Moreover, on the day after the attacks, the Security Council of the United Nations unanimously reaffirmed the inherent right of self-defense as recognized by the Charter of the United Nations. Does that mean that international law is just that clear?

“Imagined Territory: The Republic of China’s 1955 Veto of Mongolian Membership in the United Nations”

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-295
Author(s):  
Keith Allan Clark II
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Nations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Sovereign State ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Republic

In 1955, Jiang Tingfu, representing the Republic of China (roc), vetoed Mongolia’s entry into the United Nations. In the 26 years the roc represented China in the United Nations, it only cast this one veto. The roc’s veto was a contentious move because Taipei had recognized Mongolia as a sovereign state in 1946. A majority of the world body, including the United States, favored Mongolia’s admission as part of a deal to end the international organization’s deadlocked-admissions problem. The roc’s veto placed it not only in opposition to the United Nations but also its primary benefactor. This article describes the public and private discourse surrounding this event to analyze how roc representatives portrayed the veto and what they thought Mongolian admission to the United Nations represented. It also examines international reactions to Taipei’s claims and veto. It argues that in 1955 Mongolia became a synecdoche for all of China that Taipei claimed to represent, and therefore roc representatives could not acknowledge it as a sovereign state.

scholarly journals Contraction and Expansion: The Divergence of Private Sector and Public Sector Unionism in the United States

1988 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard B Freeman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Union Status ◽  
Contraction And Expansion ◽  
Public Sector Unionism

The institutional structure of the American labor market changed remarkably from the 1950s and 1960s to the 1980s. What explains the decline in union representation of private wage and salary workers? Why have unions expanded in the public sector while contracting in the private sector? Is the economy-wide fall in density a phenomenon common to developed capitalist economies, or is it unique to the United States? To what extent should economists alter their views about what unions do to the economy in light of the fact that they increasingly do it in the public sector? To answer these questions I examine a wide variety of evidence on the union status of public and private workers. I contrast trends in unionization in the United States with trends in other developed countries, particularly Canada, and use these contrasts and the divergence between unions in the public and private sectors of the United States to evaluate proposed explanations.

scholarly journals Ccopacatty: perfil de un creador relámpago

2019 ◽  
pp. 98-111
Author(s):  
Carlos Maza
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mural Painting ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The United Nations

ResumenPeruko Ccopacatty es un escultor egresado de la Escuela Nacional Superior Autónoma de Bellas Artes del Perú (Ensabap) a principios de la década de 1980 emigró a los Estados Unidos, donde ha realizado una incansable labor de producción escultórica y mural especialmente en espacios públicos. Reconocida por instituciones públicas y privadas de su país de residencia, e incluso por la misma Organización de las Naciones Unidas, su obra ha pasado injustamente inadvertida en el Perú. Este artículo describe su proceso a la luz de las escasas fuentes disponibles y a partir de la exposición homenaje, realizada en mayo y junio del 2019 en el Centro Cultural de Bellas Artes como parte de las actividades de conmemoración del Centenario de la Ensabap. Se revisan su estilo, su simbolismo y su trayectoria, y se proponen líneas de investigación hacia el rescate de un corpus disperso y el reconocimiento de su sorprendente trayectoria.Palabras clave: tradición aymara, arte en espacios públicos, Ensabap, escultura en metal, multiculturalidad, muralismo, Pedro Peruko Ccopacatty. AbstractPeruko Ccopacatty is a sculptor who graduated from the Ensabap, who emigrated to the United States in the early '80s, where he has carried out a tireless work of sculptural and mural production, especially in public spaces. Recognized by public and private institutions in his country of residence, and even by the United Nations itself, his work has gone unjustly unnoticed in Peru. This article describes his process in light of the scarce sources available and the homage exhibition held in May and June 2019 at the Centro Cultural de Bellas Artes as part of the activities to commemorate the Centennial of Ensabap. Its style, symbolism, and trajectory are reviewed, and lines of investigation are proposed towards the rescue of a dispersed corpus and the recognition of its amazing trajectory.Keywords: art in public spaces, aymara tradition, Ensabap, metal sculpture, monumental art, multiculturality, mural painting, Pedro Peruko Ccopacatty.

Private Prisons in a New Environment

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott D. Camp
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
The United States ◽  
Private Prisons ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Current State ◽  
History Of ◽  
Prison Populations ◽  
Public Versus Private

This chapter focuses on the current state of practice, policy, and research related to privately operated prisons in the United States. I begin with a brief overview of the history of the rapid growth in the private sector in the United States, followed by a discussion of costs of public versus private prisons. While costs are easily quantified, assigning the proper costs to the public and private sectors has presented much controversy in previous studies. The issue of quality of correctional services provided by public versus private prisons is also reviewed, given that there is little agreement on the type of measures that allow for fair comparisons of public and private prisons. The chapter concludes with thoughts on issues facing public and private prisons in an era marked by stability or decline as opposed to rapid growth in prison populations.

Conceptualising the Victim in England and Wales and the United States within a Spectrum of Public and Private Interests

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Manikis
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private Interests ◽  
Criminal Justice Systems ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Justice Systems

Abstract The conception of the victim in criminal justice systems has changed across history and legal systems. A framework that considers the private and public along a spectrum and offers nuances between private and public interests illuminates the ways victims have been conceived within mechanisms of participation in various criminal justice systems and the ways they can oscillate and have oscillated within these categories. This article argues that in England and Wales, victims have been conceived as citizens with both private and predominantly public roles and interests, while in the United States, they have been conceptualised as actors that hold predominantly private interests. Nuances within mechanisms of victim participation that challenge the rigidity of the public/private divide within those jurisdictions are accounted for and discussed.

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