Sarah Surak
Biographic Data
| ID | 4389886 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Surak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Surak |
| SIGNATURE | SURAK S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Salisbury University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
To Practice Democracy Anew
In August 1963, a teenage Harry C. Boyte, accompanying his father, Harry Boyte Sr., a field organizer for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, arrived in Washington, D.C., where they prepared for the March on Washington. The younger Boyte later recalled listening as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. rehearsed what became the “I Have a Dream” speech. That moment, etched in memory, foreshadowed a life devoted to democratic practice and civic rene…
The administrative making of the recycler
The New York Department of Sanitation's recycling program is under threat by an “an organized, sophisticated mob of scavenger collectives.” How is this “mob” threatening the NYC Department of Sanitation? They are removing scrap metals before the city can collect it. We use this event as an entry into exploring the practice of recycling in relation to administrative constructs through the lens of deliberative policy analysis (DPA). We discuss how …
Marcuse in the Twenty-First Century
Introduction to the Symposium
To the Perfection of Waste
Growing volumes of waste create ever more management responsibility and financial burden for public administrators, particularly on the local level. Theorists and practitioners make a compelling argument that waste disposal can and should be fully internalized, resulting in a utopian reutilization of waste in a closed circuit of the management of production, consumption, and recycling. Drawing upon the work of Herbert Marcuse, this article identi…
Displaying Garbage
Contemporary artistic installations presenting the detritus of everyday life are an increasingly popular method of raising awareness of what we produce, consume, and throw away. As social critique, these displays examine the political and economic causes and consequences of waste production and resulting ecological degradation. Drawing on Herbert Marcuse’s conceptions of aesthetics, liberation, and ecology in capitalism, this article attempts to …
Introduction to the Symposium
Utopia is, in its literal sense, an impossible place. If utopia is impossible, why does it captivate our political imagination so? Utopian narratives present a vision of the world with alternative
Marcuse in the Twenty-First Century
Recycling Reconsidered
Recycling Reconsidered
Displaying Garbage
Contemporary artistic installations presenting the detritus of everyday life are an increasingly popular method of raising awareness of what we produce, consume, and throw away. As social critique, these displays examine the political and economic causes and consequences of waste production and resulting ecological degradation. Drawing on Herbert Marcuse’s conceptions of aesthetics, liberation, and ecology in capitalism, this article attempts to …
The administrative making of the recycler
The New York Department of Sanitation's recycling program is under threat by an “an organized, sophisticated mob of scavenger collectives.” How is this “mob” threatening the NYC Department of Sanitation? They are removing scrap metals before the city can collect it. We use this event as an entry into exploring the practice of recycling in relation to administrative constructs through the lens of deliberative policy analysis (DPA). We discuss how …
Introduction to the Symposium
Recycling Reconsidered
Introduction to the Symposium
Utopia is, in its literal sense, an impossible place. If utopia is impossible, why does it captivate our political imagination so? Utopian narratives present a vision of the world with alternative
Marcuse in the Twenty-First Century
Introduction to the Symposium
To the Perfection of Waste
Growing volumes of waste create ever more management responsibility and financial burden for public administrators, particularly on the local level. Theorists and practitioners make a compelling argument that waste disposal can and should be fully internalized, resulting in a utopian reutilization of waste in a closed circuit of the management of production, consumption, and recycling. Drawing upon the work of Herbert Marcuse, this article identi…
Displaying Garbage
Contemporary artistic installations presenting the detritus of everyday life are an increasingly popular method of raising awareness of what we produce, consume, and throw away. As social critique, these displays examine the political and economic causes and consequences of waste production and resulting ecological degradation. Drawing on Herbert Marcuse’s conceptions of aesthetics, liberation, and ecology in capitalism, this article attempts to …
Marcuse in the Twenty-First Century
The administrative making of the recycler
The New York Department of Sanitation's recycling program is under threat by an “an organized, sophisticated mob of scavenger collectives.” How is this “mob” threatening the NYC Department of Sanitation? They are removing scrap metals before the city can collect it. We use this event as an entry into exploring the practice of recycling in relation to administrative constructs through the lens of deliberative policy analysis (DPA). We discuss how …
To Practice Democracy Anew
In August 1963, a teenage Harry C. Boyte, accompanying his father, Harry Boyte Sr., a field organizer for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, arrived in Washington, D.C., where they prepared for the March on Washington. The younger Boyte later recalled listening as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. rehearsed what became the “I Have a Dream” speech. That moment, etched in memory, foreshadowed a life devoted to democratic practice and civic rene…
Political science (7 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (2 works) · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (2 works) · Environmental planning (2 works)