Border Tuner and Teeter-Totter Wall: Two works of participatory public pedagogy

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather G. Kaplan
Keyword(s):  
Public Pedagogy ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
Socially Engaged Art ◽  
National Debate ◽  
The Us ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
A Site ◽  
Dominant Narratives

This article looks at two socially engaged art works, Teeter-Totter Wall by Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello and Border Tuner by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer that challenge dualistic notions of self and other, public and private, and national and multinational. Each work proffers a perspective of the US-Mexico border that counters those communicated through national political rhetoric and common in popular media reporting. This article not only recognizes these works as art but also as public pedagogy, or works accessible to the broader public and community that function to teach us something or to reframe or expand our understanding and to question or resist dominant narratives. In addition to questioning totalizing narratives, this article considers intersecting notions of the public on the border. Recognizing that the border occupies simultaneous and varied notions of the public in terms of being a site of local culture, a symbol of national debate, a firestorm of divisive rhetoric and an international marker of global politics and economics, this article considers how differing sites of public pedagogy function.

Drone futures

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 308-322
Author(s):  
Camilla Fojas
Keyword(s):  
Border Security ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cultural Productions ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Future ◽  
Racial History ◽  
Old West ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
Tv Shows ◽  
A Site

The US–Mexico border is the subject of an expanding market of cultural productions that frame this imagined and real location as the future and ultimate site of national security. It is also a site anchored in a past, where mobile subjects are sorted and processed in ways that correspond to racialized typologies of the Old West. The culture and politics of border security are saturated with this racial history even as drone technologies promise a future of neutral “target recognition,” so objective it can be automated. Even as this region is steeped in the future of surveillance technologies displayed in border security reality TV shows and Border Security Expos, the public demands pretechnological remedies for control of mobility of people and goods in terrestrial forms through ground agents, walls, and barriers.

scholarly journals How significant are the public dimensions of faculty work in review, promotion and tenure documents?

eLife ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan P Alperin ◽  
Carol Muñoz Nieves ◽  
Lesley A Schimanski ◽  
Gustavo E Fischman ◽  
Meredith T Niles ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Academic Careers ◽  
Faculty Work ◽  
Public Funds ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Promotion And Tenure ◽  
Traditional Research ◽  
The Us ◽  
Public Evaluation ◽  
Work Done

Much of the work done by faculty at both public and private universities has significant public dimensions: it is often paid for by public funds; it is often aimed at serving the public good; and it is often subject to public evaluation. To understand how the public dimensions of faculty work are valued, we analyzed review, promotion, and tenure documents from a representative sample of 129 universities in the US and Canada. Terms and concepts related to public and community are mentioned in a large portion of documents, but mostly in ways that relate to service, which is an undervalued aspect of academic careers. Moreover, the documents make significant mention of traditional research outputs and citation-based metrics: however, such outputs and metrics reward faculty work targeted to academics, and often disregard the public dimensions. Institutions that seek to embody their public mission could therefore work towards changing how faculty work is assessed and incentivized.

Placing the Nation: The Politics of Spatial Production at Auckland Airport and Wellington Airport

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Rachael Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Relations ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Promotional Material ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Stories ◽  
International Airport ◽  
Spatial Production ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Relationship

<p>The airport is a site that blurs spatial boundaries. While primarily functioning to move aircraft and passengers between land and air, the airport is simultaneously a complex social institution that mediates the relationship between the local and global, the public and private, and national and international space. This thesis discusses the changing nature of Auckland International Airport and Wellington International Airport as spaces that are produced through a number of historical, economic and political contexts. Using spatial, cultural and critical theory along with concepts from human geography and mobilities research, this study examines each airport as a dynamic, ongoing process of spatial relations. Central to this analysis is the understanding that space, subjectivity and technologies of power produce and reproduce each other on different scales. Drawing upon news stories, promotional material, institutional representations and popular representations of Auckland and Wellington airports, the following thesis will explore the ways in which their spaces have been imagined, produced and used over time.</p>

Placing the Nation: The Politics of Spatial Production at Auckland Airport and Wellington Airport

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Rachael Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Relations ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Promotional Material ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Stories ◽  
International Airport ◽  
Spatial Production ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Relationship

<p>The airport is a site that blurs spatial boundaries. While primarily functioning to move aircraft and passengers between land and air, the airport is simultaneously a complex social institution that mediates the relationship between the local and global, the public and private, and national and international space. This thesis discusses the changing nature of Auckland International Airport and Wellington International Airport as spaces that are produced through a number of historical, economic and political contexts. Using spatial, cultural and critical theory along with concepts from human geography and mobilities research, this study examines each airport as a dynamic, ongoing process of spatial relations. Central to this analysis is the understanding that space, subjectivity and technologies of power produce and reproduce each other on different scales. Drawing upon news stories, promotional material, institutional representations and popular representations of Auckland and Wellington airports, the following thesis will explore the ways in which their spaces have been imagined, produced and used over time.</p>

Operation Thin Mint: Popular Geopolitics of Care and Post-9/11 Girlhood

Young ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denise Goerisch
Keyword(s):  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Girl Scouts ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
American Military ◽  
The Public ◽  
Us Military ◽  
Military Conflicts ◽  
The Us ◽  
Girl Scout

In response to the events of 9/11, the Girl Scouts of San Diego created a service programme within the annual Girl Scout cookie sale called Operation Thin Mint, which sends cookies to soldiers serving overseas. Representations of American patriotism and national identity are featured prominently throughout the cookie sale as girls come to embody America’s role in overseas military conflicts, an embodiment of everyday geopolitical processes that frame the US military as protector of American innocence, ideals and values. Scouts come to engage with political and economic systems that position them beyond their communities as they ‘sell the nation’ to consumers as a form of care, blurring the boundaries between the public and private spheres as well as the local and global. Based on an in-depth ethnographic study on the Girl Scout cookie sale, this article will examine the complex gendered relationship between the American military, girls’ bodies and care.

Fostering Public-Private Partnership

2020 ◽  
pp. 237-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vasaki Ponnusamy ◽  
N. Z. Jhanjhi ◽  
Mamoona Humayun
Keyword(s):  
Developing Nations ◽  
Public Private Partnership ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
The Public ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
Digital Infrastructure ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Government

This chapter intends to provide a review of cooperation between public and private sectors towards cybersecurity governance. With the partnership, government can have confidence towards the safety and protection of their national critical digital infrastructure. The goal of this chapter is achieved by analyzing some of the cybersecurity frameworks adopted by the developed and developing nations. The analysis is further carried out by investigating the public-private policy initiatives in their national cybersecurity framework. The chapter also investigates the effectiveness of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework (NIST) adopted by the US government.

scholarly journals Marital Matching, Economies of Scale, and Intrahousehold Allocations

2020 ◽  
Vol 102 (4) ◽  
pp. 823-837
Author(s):  
Laurens Cherchye ◽  
Bram De Rock ◽  
Khushboo Surana ◽  
Frederic Vermeulen
Keyword(s):  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Scale Economies ◽  
Preference Heterogeneity ◽  
Income Dynamics ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Preference Information ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Us ◽  
Allocation Patterns

We propose a novel nonparametric method to empirically identify economies of scale in multiperson household consumption. We assume consumption technologies that define the public and private nature of expenditures through Barten scales. Our method (solely) exploits preference information revealed by a cross-section of household observations while accounting for fully unobserved preference heterogeneity. An application to data drawn from the US Panel Study of Income Dynamics shows that the method yields informative results on scale economies and intrahousehold allocation patterns. In addition, it allows us to define individual compensation schemes required to preserve the same consumption level in case of marriage dissolution or spousal death.

scholarly journals Arguments to Apply Constitutional Guarantees in the Private Sector

Lentera Hukum ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 175
Author(s):  
Md. Toriqul Islam
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Organic Growth ◽  
The Us ◽  
Library Resources ◽  
Us Constitution ◽  
Points Of View

Constitutional guarantees are such a body of interests or basic human rights which are inevitable for each human being. These rights are principally inherent, inalienable, and universal, and therefore, irrespective of race, sex, caste, color, or religion, everyone can enjoy them. Constitutional guarantees are distinct from all other rights and privileges because of at least two unique characteristics, such as intrinsic in nature, and inalienability. These guarantees are crucial in the state-individual relations, and recognized by major laws of the civilized nations, and often enshrined in the national constitutions. For instance, the US Constitution signifies the essence of these rights through the expression of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Nonetheless, very often, many citizens across the globe are deprived of these rights on numerous pretends and grounds, and mostly, on the public-private dichotomy. This study examined contemporary legal and philosophical discourses as to whether the constitutional guarantees of human rights apply in the private sectors in Malaysia, India, and the United States. This study used doctrinal legal research methodology with a qualitative approach based on library resources. The findings of this study showed that constitutional guarantees, primarily human rights, are presumed to have been neither created nor made but originated like organic growth. Accordingly, no authority can take them away. By examining various logics from theological to socio-historical points of view and the theory of international law, this study concluded that constitutional guarantees, particularly the equal protection of the law, should apply horizontally to cover both public and private sectors. KEYWORDS: Constitutional Guarantees, Human Rights, Public-Private Sectors.

Braiding Borders: Performance as Care and Resistance on the US-Mexico Border

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 72-83
Author(s):  
Kaitlin M. Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Body Politics ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Female Immigrant ◽  
The Us ◽  
Specific Performance ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
A Site ◽  
Us Mexico Border ◽  
Rhetorical Violence

Braiding Borders, a site-specific performance in which women from both Mexico and the US braided their hair together across the US-Mexico border, challenged exclusionary geopolitical demarcations and physical and rhetorical violence against female, immigrant, and Latinx bodies. As a collective, performative mobilization of bodies, it dismantled and reinvented mobilities of belonging and body politics of dissent.

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