Small groups of people who follow one or more particular issue very closely. Different kinds of publics occupy different kinds of spaces: ‘for example, a public space that would foster a liberal-economistic version of publicity might be one that facilitates state functioning and makes it easier for the state to safeguard and regulate individual rights and to promote economic development and growth’ (Staeheli and Mitchell (2007) PHG 31, 6). ‘Publics are deeply embedded in social and machinic complexes involving the mobilities of people, objects, and information’ (Sheller (2004) Env. & Plan. D 22, 1). For Fuller and Askins (2007) Antipode 39, 4 publics, while multiple and in flux, are also created.