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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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2013.
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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."
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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).
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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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