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Public Culture (2020) 32 (2 (91)): 255–285.
Published: 01 May 2020
... to the United States through its films and music, and of course through its military presence, black and white alike. America was everywhere in Europe, but it was not a fashionable topic of study at the university. Those drawn to it dressed more casually, however, and seemed more interesting, Sollors remarked...
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Public Culture (2006) 18 (3): 573–605.
Published: 01 September 2006
...Sabine I. Gölz Duke University Press 2006 Moscow for Flaneurs: Pedestrian Bridges, Europe Square, and Moskva-City Sabine I. Gölz On a sunny afternoon in early September 2001, having...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (3): 507–529.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Éric Fassin The so-called sexual clash of civilizations takes on a different meaning in today's Europe: it is about immigrants rather than terrorists—about contention, not expansion. As a consequence, Europe now draws the boundaries between “us” and “them” through sexual politics. Sexual democracy...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (1 (81)): 27–51.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Rogier van Reekum; Willem Schinkel Migration cannot be readily seen. Yet the study of contemporary migration control and border management, particularly with respect to Europe, abounds in the use of ocular terminology, such as surveillance and monitoring . We approach these issues by asking how...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (1 (93)): 41–61.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Thomas Blom Hansen Abstract Theories of sovereignty in the twentieth century are generally based on a teleological “out-of-Europe” narrative where the modern, centralized nation-state form gradually spread across the world to be the foundation of the international order. In this article, the author...
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Public Culture (2024) 36 (1 (102)): 47–74.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Daniel Akselrad; Robert N. Proctor Abstract After the collapse of communism in the satellite states of the Soviet Union, global cigarette makers began acquiring factories throughout Eastern Europe to capitalize on this new market opportunity. Drawing on victims’ accounts of the Holocaust...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (3 (83)): 515–538.
Published: 01 September 2017
... Europe, the epicenter of the crisis. Focusing exclusively on the formation of sovereignty through the analytical locus of crisis continues, however, to reproduce the trope of the “refugee” as a category of exception. This essay considers the experiences of people who were resettled as refugees...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (3): 413–439.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Ruben Andersson This article starts with an observation made by many migrants and refugees stuck at Europe’s borders: that reception and detention facilities have become a money spinner and a racket. In conversation with the extensive literature on the biopolitics of borders, the article approaches...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (1): 25–43.
Published: 01 January 2020
...Gabriel Gatti Building on conclusions drawn from research conducted in Latin America and Europe, this text develops an argument in two movements. In the first movement, it traces the genealogy of the international circulation of the categories disappeared and forced disappearance of persons...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (1): 45–75.
Published: 01 January 2020
...Jesse Ribot; Papa Faye; Matthew D. Turner Young Sahelian farmers are crossing the Sahara toward Europe. They are sold as slave labor, held ransom for money from their families, beaten and spit on. Many die in the desert or drown at sea. Yet, knowing the dangers, they go. The media depicts them...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (1 (93)): 115–128.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Arjun Appadurai Abstract The primary argument of this essay is that the modern Western museum form is a critical site in which to understand the five centuries in which Europe dominated much of the rest of the world. In this imperial epoch, the world was shrunk to the museum and the museum...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 515–535.
Published: 01 September 2022
... in Europe extends to the DIY-DIT principles of independent art spaces and the backyard appeal of a tiny space for big ideas, and concludes with a thought experiment for a new kind of urban incubator that might better attend to the stubbornly nested complexities of the city the contributors all call home...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (3): 487–505.
Published: 01 September 2010
... the sexualization of Europe that the politics of immigration entail. This explicit representation uncovered the logic of inclusion and exclusion that defines today the boundaries of sexual democracy. Copyright 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Our gratitude to the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (3): 583–603.
Published: 01 September 2010
... images from a gay wedding in a speech meant to account for his skepticism about the EU. Drawing on the work of Judith Butler and Éric Fassin, the essay links these developments to a wider context of instrumentalization of sexual freedom in contemporary Europe (especially vis-à-vis Muslim minorities...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 January 2011
... the status of race and immigration in France (if not Europe) today. This introductory essay reviews the arguments presented in the main articles, discussion papers, and Doxa essays included in this special issue. The author enters the debate by arguing against the notion that postcolonial studies can...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 387–405.
Published: 01 May 2015
... question that provides insight into the stiffening of class boundaries in Bucharest, but also in other similarly positioned cities in Eastern Europe and the global South. References Arendt Hannah . 1966 . The Origins of Totalitarianism . Cleveland : World . Auyero Javier . 2012...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (2 (73)): 301–318.
Published: 01 May 2014
... affinities with environmentalist perspectives that attribute value, animatedness, and agency to the natural world. Such affinities emerge even in nonenvironmentalist animated films in the United States, Western Europe, and Japan. 2014 Long neglected as an object of serious study, animated film...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (1 (81)): 165–190.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Kenny Cupers This article examines theories of human territoriality and their historical role in the demise of public housing in Western Europe and North America between the 1960s and the 1980s. The neglect and privatization of the public housing stock and the withdrawal of the state in direct...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (2 (91)): 363–374.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Brooke Holmes This article nominates Bruno Snell’s Discovery of the Mind (1946; trans. 1953) as an Undead Text on the basis of three criteria. The article examines first the persistence of a Snellian story about the Greeks as the ancestors of modern Europe within the discipline of classics, before...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (3 (83)): 457–480.
Published: 01 September 2017
..., it may have undermined mainstream Jewish institutional strategies that relied on the evocation of a stable French national “identity” to both fight anti-Semitism and produce Jewish belonging in France. Copyright © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 Europe national identity postcolonialism...
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