Publicy
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[edit] Definition
Publicy is "the response from public institutions a private person is able to elicit" (Veldboer 2004, pp. 42). This concept is commonly understood as the opposite of privacy. This is only true however, in case both concepts relate to one and other in an equilibrium of mutually exclusive bipartition.
The relevance of the publicy concept becomes apparent in the context of cross-border migration, describing migrants entering the domain of an unexplored public sphere. Its definition has evolved against a background of interpreting new institutionalism and can be extended by replacing person by agent.
[edit] Source
Veldboer, Martijn L. (2004), BorderlineXplorations: Analyzing the Dialectic between Chinese Irregular Migration and the Dutch State Control Complex, Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam, <http://www.publicy.org/files/BorderlineXplorations.pdf>
Reference: University of Amsterdam online catalog, 313: SCR 8813
[edit] Selected bibliography
- Veldboer, Martijn L. (2004), BorderlineXplorations: Analyzing the Dialectic between Chinese Irregular Migration and the Dutch State Control Complex, Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam, <http://www.publicy.org/files/BorderlineXplorations.pdf>
- Habermas, Jürgen. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society, (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought), The MIT Press; Reprint edition, August 28, 1991, ISBN 0-262-58108-6.
