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Public Culture (1994) 7 (1): 147–164.
Published: 01 January 1994
...Steven Gregory Copyright © 1994 by The University of Chicago 1994 Race, Identity and Political
Activism: The Shifting Contours
of the African American
Public Sphere...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (1 (72)): 25–50.
Published: 01 January 2014
...Christina Dunbar-Hester This article considers media activism around low-power FM radio as hybrid formation, combining expertise with amateurism and management with self-organizing practice. Specifically, it ethnographically examines the technical and social practices of a group of activists who...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (1 (81)): 113–127.
Published: 01 January 2017
... discusses his working methods, his relation to art institutions, and his efforts to link histories of exclusion and stigma to a critique of LGBTQ assimilation in the present. 2017 Carlos Motta queer history activism archives In his socially engaged and intimate art, Carlos Motta attempts...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (2): 283–303.
Published: 01 May 2018
... activism archives Occupy Wall Street politics protest On September 17, 2011, nearly a thousand protesters gathered in Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park under the banner of Occupy Wall Street ( Mitchell 2011) . On September 29, 2011, Erika Fry (2011) entertains the idea that “maybe Occupy Wall Street...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 323–341.
Published: 01 May 2019
... key figures in activism and social life oriented around same-sex desire in Jamaica during GFM’s existence. The materials that I present in this article are drawn from these diverse sources. While the articles in this special issue are oriented around diversity , this term as a politicized form...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (2 (100)): 191–206.
Published: 01 May 2023
... University Press 2023 activism online communities radical right irony memes On May 9, 2022, days before murdering ten black shoppers at a community supermarket in Buffalo, New York, Payton Gendron posted about his planned attack on the chat app Discord: “Honestly, this entire thing is a meme...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (2): 293–308.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Meir Wigoder Meir Wigoder's account of photographing the Separation-Wall, in Israel-Palestine, over a period of three years, offers a critique of the very vigilant and testimonial activity of taking on such projects: Is it possible to de-materialize a wall through a political aesthetic activity...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 495–514.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Mahdi Sabbagh Abstract This essay aims to identify methods and strategies used to manipulate the Palestinian urban fabric. First, the essay will focus on Israeli settler-colonial activity through a study of the deployed tactics of de-development, destruction, and harassment. Second, it will focus...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (2 (100)): 177–189.
Published: 01 May 2023
... and surprising histories to ground and energize a fresh wave of activism that looks to collective forms of urban and rural landholding to address racism, whiteness, inequality, reparations, and climate change. [email protected] Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 civil rights...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 537–562.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Rupali Gupte; Prasad Shetty Abstract This essay discusses cities as composites of small forces of energetic selves. Energetic self here is the dimension of the self that drives one to undertake activities connected to one's desires. These could include collecting strange objects, achieving mundane...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (2 (94)): 261–275.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Éléonore Rimbault Abstract Before the 1990s, there were many child performers in India's circus companies. They joined the circus as trainees and received a salary for their performance. After their activity was problematized as child labor and made illegal, they progressively disappeared from...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 261–273.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Mayanthi L. Fernando The politics of recognition remains a common way to articulate and adjudicate minorities’ claims, yet, as a number of scholars have argued, calling on the state for redress serves to secure the state’s sovereignty. Drawing on Muslim French activism in France, the author...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (3 (65)): 505–510.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Ramesh Srinivasan; Adam Fish Digital networks are part of a larger media ecology that works to spread awareness, scrutiny, and activism. Such networks help coordinate and mobilize physical assembly and protest and are also tools wielded to empower repression and oppression. Copyright 2011 by Duke...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (1 (81)): 17–26.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Josef Sorett This essay tracks the evolving tensions between culture and politics in African American life to offer an account of how an idea of “church” shapes contemporary black literature and social activism. Although generally understood as a dramatic reimagining of the black past...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (3 (71)): 523–550.
Published: 01 September 2013
... to be successful, however, the UCMC has also had to learn how to manage its research and service activities in ways that can be tracked by governmental auditors and that can be made apparent and accountable to an already suspicious public. 2013 In 2005 Dr. James L. Madara, the University of Chicago Medical...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 201–212.
Published: 01 May 2015
... analysis and simulation of cities. While this campaign shares many similarities with computer-based efforts to study cities and inform urban policy during the United States’ urban crisis in the 1960s, the rise of the Internet presents new opportunities to involve citizens more actively, on a larger scale...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 373–391.
Published: 01 May 2019
...), and thus the burden to actively resist (educate, lead, and organize) not fall on scholars of color alone and that the inherent tensions in diversity work must at all times remain foregrounded. Copyright 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 diversity higher education/academia anti-oppression work...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (1 (99)): 49–71.
Published: 01 January 2023
... politically active Cairenes navigate suspicious spaces, bodies, and nonliving things in the cityscape and how materiality shapes and is shaped by the emotional-aesthetic responses of individuals and groups to the stimuli it provides. In this specific context, the distinct form of what the author calls...
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Public Culture (2008) 20 (3): 467–477.
Published: 01 September 2008
... of health to be activated in relation to the human organism—notions that are at best inexact. Duke University Press 2008 Translated by Todd Meyers and Stefanos Geroulanos TRANSLATION
Health: Crude Concept...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (3 (77)): 533–555.
Published: 01 September 2015
... and plays a role in shaping cross-border migrant politics and activism through what the essay explores as the “aesthetics of allá.” 2015 DJs immigration music US-Mexico border Art is irreducible to land, to the people, to the moment that produces it; nevertheless, it’s inseparable from...
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