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Being Together at a Distance, Talking and Avoiding Talk: Making Sense of the Present in Victory Square, Tianjin / Thireau, Isabelle   Journal Article
Thireau, Isabelle Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract This paper explores a “public gathering” which took place every evening from 1991 to 2017 in Victory Square (Shengli guangchang 胜利广场), a public square in Tianjin. The essay opens with an analysis of the type of publicness that stems from the way participants “do things together.” It then describes how a specific public realm appears through the way participants “talk together.” It finally suggests that even if they are overrun with doubt, indeterminacy and anxiety, or embedded in a specific distance-based sociality, the conversations on Victory Square are not a minor, secondary activity. On the contrary, they take place on a common stage where participants interact with one another, reveal themselves as unique individuals and discuss their everyday affairs and common practices. Grasped as an “intermediary public sphere,” this type of gathering engenders and reinforces not only shared meanings and evaluations but also practical knowledge whose validity goes beyond this situated gathering.
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John Holmes memorial lecture: international organizations at the moving public-private borderline / Jonsson, Christer   Journal Article
Jonsson, Christer Journal Article
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Publication 2013.
Summary/Abstract THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN A PUBLIC AND A PRIVATE SPHERE IS ESSENTIAL TO politics. The public sphere is commonly associated with the state and politics whereas the private sphere encompasses markets and civil society. Political power and state sovereignty rest on "a set of institutionalized authority claims." 1 The sovereign state's authority claim over its population imparts it with metapolitical authority. That is, the governing bodies of states claim to have, and are recognized as having, the authority to define what is public (and thus political) and what is private (and thus beyond political authority). 2 The range of activities over which political bodies can legitimately exercise authority may vary over time and between states. For instance, the authority claims of modern welfare states are far more extensive than those of medieval or nineteenth-century states, asformerly private aspects of people's lives have become included in the public realm.
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