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Public Culture (2012) 24 (2 (67)): 385–419.
Published: 01 May 2012
... of moving around the city (motorcycling, skateboarding, and parkour). They give young men from the peripheries a new visibility in the city and thus challenge previous understandings about the functioning of public spaces. However, these interventions are contradictory: they affirm rights to the city while...
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in Property, Dispossession, and Citizenship in Turkey; Or, the History of the Gezi Uprising Starts in the Surp Hagop Armenian Cemetery
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Published: 01 September 2016
Figure 5 “Excuse me, there used to be an Armenian church around here.” “We built our own house from that, sir . . . But here, come sit and drink our tea.” Illustration by Aret Gıcır
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 389–413.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Austin Zeiderman This essay foregrounds the political constituencies assembling around the problem of climate change in cities. Recent experiments in urban climate governance in Bogotá, Colombia, are shown to challenge liberal democratic notions of the “public” by linking a redistributive economic...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (2 (91)): 431–439.
Published: 01 May 2020
... their field around the terms orality and literacy at around the same time that Ong published his book; but where Ong stressed historical change or the fall from orality to literacy, African Americanists tended to accent their mutual mediation. This article explores the way that African Americanists...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (2): 377–402.
Published: 01 May 2009
.... The elegiac transformation of intimidation into ethical and national consciousness provides a spiritual node around which a renewed sense of national identity can accrete. To cast into relief this claim, the essay also analyzes the dominant cultural rhetorics of the Syrian regime and Lebanese Hezbollah (Party...
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (1 (66)): 157–184.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Peter Redfield Expectations that people should live—even under extreme conditions of crisis, neglect, and poverty—now combine with doubts about the capacity of states to provide for their populations. One result has been a set of technologies built around minimalist forms of care. Created...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (2 (100)): 177–189.
Published: 01 May 2023
... land trust, and a wave of cooperative experiments moving through the South in the late 1960s and 1970s found fertile ground around Albany, Georgia. Reflecting solidarity between the civil rights, Pan‐African, Nonaligned, and Tricontinental movements, associations with prominent international activists...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (3 (95)): 313–348.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Brian Larkin Abstract To what extent are media technologies autonomous forces that reorganize the environment around them to accommodate their own technological needs? In what ways are these technologies responsive to the milieu they grow within? A central theme of comparative media examines how...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (2 (94)): 137–147.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Paula Kift Abstract In response to the COVID‐19 pandemic, governments around the world turned to contact‐tracing applications in an attempt to balance the reopening of the economy with keeping the virus at bay. But as this article demonstrates, contact‐tracing applications not only fail to protect...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (1 (81)): 17–26.
Published: 01 January 2017
... attention to how blackness itself (under a variety of names) has circulated as a religious discourse—as a veritable conversation within and without, all around and about, the church. 2017 #BlackLivesMatter Afro-Protestantism black literature church politics protest Last year, by all counts...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (3): 411–424.
Published: 01 September 2010
... shares with the war on terror is the idea that we ought to organize our political life around the quest for security and that we can even recover a sense of moral purpose through the response to (environmental) emergencies. Here too the aim seems to be to scare us into submission, rather than open up new...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (1 (81)): 165–190.
Published: 01 January 2017
... public to private funding, or design, from highrise blocks in large estates to semidetached or detached individual dwellings; it also constitutes an epistemological turn, which revolves around the shift from “habitat” to “human territoriality.” 2017 neoliberalism public housing social science...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (1): 173–196.
Published: 01 January 2019
... de Kirchner, unleashed a storm of accusations and counteraccusations, political speculation, rumors, and legal battles. In this article, I explore the multifold processes of truth-making around this event. In proposing the term “moral economy of truth,” I signal how understandings of truth serve...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (3 (74)): 419–448.
Published: 01 September 2014
... might expect members of the post-Soviet Russian intelligentsia to unanimously back the accused artists and thus to adhere to semiotic ideologies similar to those of their Euro-American counterparts confronting, for example, the Brooklyn Museum’s Sensation exhibit or the controversy around Andres...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (3 (74)): 529–558.
Published: 01 September 2014
... the dominant means of peace NGOs and others in their attempts to address the past and the future of peace in almost every postconflict setting around the world today, the technique seems ripe for sustained critical inquiry. Indeed, for the transnational and hypermobile clan of peacemakers and peace experts...
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Public Culture (2024) 36 (1 (102)): 119–143.
Published: 01 January 2024
...David Nugent; Adeem Suhail Abstract Two decades into the twenty-first century, a panoply of formerly separate movements, interests, organizations, and individuals have converged around shared anxieties about the future of life on earth. This article focuses on the implicit logic on which this “cult...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (2): 333–368.
Published: 01 May 2010
... for the very constitution of the popular. Daily rituals around the Coca Cola logo (placing empty plastic pots as mute witness to water scarcity) became critical to the formation of such a front against the corporate giant. I argue such performances are the norm these days in our highly media-saturated...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (2): 245–268.
Published: 01 May 2009
... around the interplay of reason and affect. The history and contemporary use of the U.S. Treasury yield curve—a key economic indicator—point to this intractable problem of modern knowledge more generally. The devices that should create grounds for calculating future profits also open avenues of affect...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (3 (65)): 493–504.
Published: 01 September 2011
...—illuminate the tensions in the debate around whether to focus on the transnational movement of images, ideas, and public forms or on the local meanings of texts and representations. Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 I would like to thank Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, Stephen Twilley...
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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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