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Public Culture (2007) 19 (3): 567–592.
Published: 01 September 2007
.... Chopra, Yash, dir. 1975 . Deewar . Trimurti, India. Film. D'Monte, Darryl. 2001 . Ripping the fabric: The decline of Mumbai and its mills . New Delhi: Oxford University Press. Davis, Mike. 2007 . Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb . London: Verso. Devji, Faisal. 2005...
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Public Culture (1995) 7 (3): 499–527.
Published: 01 September 1995
... hibakusha mondai o kangaeru. Tokyo: Gaifūsha. Memory Matters: Hiroshima’s Korean Atom Bomb Memorial and the Politics of Ethnicity Lisa Yoneyama There is a battle for and around...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (3): 451–464.
Published: 01 September 2009
... two major al Qaeda attacks in Kenya, including the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy, but he has also become the object of fantastic speculation—the product of a psychology of fear combined with a popular imagination saturated with the layered syntax of the entertainment industry's imagery. Fazul's...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (1 (81)): 5–16.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Madiha Tahir Without the people from Pakistan’s Tribal Areas to narrate the visual evidence, one wouldn’t necessarily know what one was looking at in the photos or videos of the aftermath of drone attacks. To tell their stories, they had moved through a territory pockmarked by bombs and checkpoints...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (1): 85–112.
Published: 01 January 2018
... for—the unruly forms of death and killing among us today. Figured against a backdrop of expanding homicidal forms (including algorithmic drone strikes, web-streamed beheadings, suicide bombings, etc.), assassinations prove a particularly timely—if scary—problem to consider. Assassinations put to us urgent...
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Public Culture (2003) 15 (1): 65–89.
Published: 01 January 2003
... “com- munities” and “nations” are at stake. I argued that given the prevalence of that logic, “the bombs of Hamas against civilians might outrage the humanists among us for being precisely that: bombs against civilians,” but what was more...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 395–416.
Published: 01 May 2011
... cinema. In Cinema and the invention of modern life , edited by Leo Charney and Vanessa R. Schwartz. Berkeley: University of California Press. Gupta, Nagendranath. 1948 . Gandhi and Gandhism . 2nd ed. Bombay: Hind Kitabs. First published, by Hind Kitabs, in 1945. Heehs, Peter. 1993 . The bomb...
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Public Culture (1992) 4 (2): 127–136.
Published: 01 May 1992
... just min- utes after the first bombs fell on Baghdad, annihilating the spacehime pa- rameters of the public mind with unforeseen intensity. Anxiety at first abated by the onset of battle soon soared to new and disturbing heights as continuous real-time television coverage proceeded...
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Public Culture (1992) 4 (2): 101–126.
Published: 01 May 1992
... not only for those directly affected through death, disease, or exile, but also for the environ- ment, for democracy, and even for feminism and multi-culturalism.l The bombs seemed aimed at us as well, a didactic object lesson in our own powerlessness. A few members of the corporate-political elite...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (3): 433–463.
Published: 01 September 2010
... Trinity to the virtual bomb in Los Alamos. American Ethnologist 31 , no. 3 : 1 – 25. ———. 2006 . The nuclear borderlands: The Manhattan Project in post – Cold War New Mexico . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. ———. 2008 . Survival is your business: Engineering ruins and affect...
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (3): 468–475.
Published: 01 September 2002
... Hole, tells the story of Ed Grothus, a former Los Alamos National Laboratory machinist turned atomic junk collector. Nearly thirty years ago “Atomic Ed,” as he is known, had a change of heart and quit his job helping to make “better” atomic bombs. Rather than leave his small company town, however...
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Public Culture (2007) 19 (3): 461–482.
Published: 01 September 2007
... during television coverage of suicide bombings. On one occasion in 2002, Telad, then a franchise holder for Israel’s Channel 2 (the main commercial television channel), split the screen in half in order to broadcast live footage from the scene of a bombing in Jerusalem while at the same time...
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Public Culture (2007) 19 (3): 413–414.
Published: 01 September 2007
... on Bombay explore the urban economy of con- struction and destruction and probe the ways in which terrorist serial bombings Public Culture 19:3  d o i 10.1215/08992363-2007-001 Copyright 2007 by Duke University Press 413 Public Culture reveal the sites at which...
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Public Culture (1991) 3 (2): 121–133.
Published: 01 May 1991
... LA: It seems to me that from the prime-time schd-ulingof its first air raid, this has been a war for television. What’s disturbing me the most in the media coverage I’ve seen since the bombing began is that there are so many silences. And the major silence is a silence on the fact...
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Public Culture (1991) 3 (2): 120–121.
Published: 01 May 1991
... Chakravorty Spivak Lila Abu-Lughod LA: It seems to me that from the prime-time schd-ulingof its first air raid, this has been a war for television. What’s disturbing me the most in the media coverage I’ve seen since the bombing began is that there are so many silences...
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (3): 477–492.
Published: 01 September 2002
... counterpointed horrors on earth. On 20 July 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon, an event that took place at fantastic dis- tance in the American imagination from the simultaneous bombing of Cambodia. The space program and the war in Vietnam were antithetical propositions, and whatever...
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Public Culture (1992) 4 (2): 89–92.
Published: 01 May 1992
... Nomad doll underscores the absence of Iraq and the Iraqis. Bombing Iraq back “to a preindustrial age,” as a UN report later described it, was made easier by forgetting that the Fertile Crescent was the cradle of civilization, that wnting was invented in Mesopotamia...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (1 (81)): 191–215.
Published: 01 January 2017
... the dehumanization of the child is accompanied by the parallel move of humanizing the bombed zoo animals. “We are the only people in this world who are living under such total occupation,” Shawa (2011) laments. Under the occupation, he continues, “Israel sees us as being equal to our animals, and sometimes...
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Public Culture (1995) 7 (3): 529–555.
Published: 01 September 1995
... attending the anniversary stayed), I came across a series of greeting cards with World War I1 images labeled "fiftieth anniversary." Not surprisingly, there was an image of John Kennedy's ill-fated boat, PT-109. But next to it was a greeting card showing an American plane bombing a traditional-style...
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Public Culture (1991) 3 (2): 149–154.
Published: 01 May 1991
... with one powerful and deeply affecting way this whole mess is central to racism at home. CNN AND THE FIRST BOMBING OF ISRAEL Video vEritE meets the camivalesque in CNN’s immediate Israeli news- room segments after the first Scuds hit outside Tel Aviv. The images depict a sole reporter...