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Published: 01 May 2022
figure 2. Hewlett-Packard garage in Palo Alto, California. The garage is a historic landmark designated as the “Birthplace of Silicon Valley” by the State of California Office of Historic Preservation. Courtesy of BrokenSphere/Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA license: creativecommons.org/licenses
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in Manifold Enclosures: Decommodifying Property at Esther's Orbit Room in West Oakland
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Published: 01 September 2022
figure 2 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Oakland, Alameda County, California, with black line showing Esther's Orbit Room properties, 1889. Image: Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division. For permissions information, please see hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g4364om.g4364om_g007271889 .
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in Manifold Enclosures: Decommodifying Property at Esther's Orbit Room in West Oakland
> Public Culture
Published: 01 September 2022
figure 3 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Oakland, Alameda County, California, with black line showing Esther's Orbit Room properties, 1912–51. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division. For permissions information, please see hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g4364om.g4364om_g00727195101 .
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Public Culture (2001) 13 (2): 161–190.
Published: 01 May 2001
...Marita Sturken © 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Marita Sturken is an associate professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (1 (72)): 51–77.
Published: 01 January 2014
... in the Northern California East Bay area and the Repair Cafe located in Palo Alto, California, but originally hailing from the Netherlands. It shows how each group, rooted in notions of individualism and reciprocity, comes to articulate particular ways of seeing and remaking themselves as citizens through...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 237–259.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Andrew Lakoff This essay tracks the two-decade-long struggle to protect the delta smelt and other native fish populations in California. Through the case of the smelt, it asks how the goal of species preservation is integrated into contemporary governmental practice. What values are at play...
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Published: 01 September 2015
Figure 5 “Daniel, California Correctional Institution.” Prisoner Fantasies: Photos from the Inside, 2007–2012 . Courtesy collection of David Adler
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in Making Citizens, Reassembling Devices: On Gender and the Development of Contemporary Public Sites of Repair in Northern California
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Published: 01 January 2014
Figure 1 Fixit Clinic at the Lawrence Hall of Science, Berkeley, California, on November 18, 2012. Photograph by Peter Mui
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in Making Citizens, Reassembling Devices: On Gender and the Development of Contemporary Public Sites of Repair in Northern California
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Published: 01 January 2014
Figure 3 Peter Mui inspects a digital projector at his home in Berkeley, California, on February 5, 2013. Kristopher Skinner/ Contra Costa Times. Reprinted with permission
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Published: 01 May 2020
Figure 2 E. R. Dodds, The Greeks and The Irrational . (c) 1951 by the Regents of the University of California. Published by the University of California Press.
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (3 (74)): 449–467.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Frédéric Keck Paul Rabinow, interviewed by Frédéric Keck, reflects on the ethics of truth claims and on how his training in philosophy and anthropology led him from Moroccan saints to biotech scientists in California, France, and Iceland. 2014 Frédéric Keck (FK): You say you are doing...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (3): 441–464.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Rihan Yeh In Tijuana, across the US-Mexico border from San Diego, California, transnational flows precipitate anxieties over autonomous agency. This essay explores how these anxieties afflict not just individual “I”s but the city’s “we”s as well. Due to pressures associated with different types...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 289–322.
Published: 01 May 2019
... across the United States and African (Ugandan) context, based on institutes and programs at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda; and the University of California, Merced. The decolonizing diversity approach does not locate racial difference in the “diverse bodies...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 197–214.
Published: 01 May 2019
... of California v. Bakke (1978) and Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) US Supreme Court decisions as a way of grounding our approach. In the introduction, the authors examine the extent to which these decisions ultimately led public universities in the United States to shift away from the original intent of affirmative...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 215–234.
Published: 01 May 2019
... of the phenomena that thereby come into view. Two ethnographic moments—one involving faculty hiring and indigeneity and the other graduate admissions and gender/sexuality—exemplify the chilling effects of performative invocations of law, in this case of Proposition 209, the landmark California anti–affirmative...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (2 (97)): 265–290.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Joanne Randa Nucho Abstract This essay describes an emerging “post‐grid imaginary” that is informing visions of future collapse, growing scarcity, and deepening infrastructural fragmentation. By examining electrical grid failures in Lebanon and California, we can move beyond developmentalist...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 437–452.
Published: 01 September 2022
...M. C. Overholt Abstract In the midst of the global SARS-CoV-2 epidemiological crisis unfolds another contagion: the eviction epidemic. This essay attends to the work of Moms for Housing, an organization of formerly homeless and marginally housed Black mothers in Oakland, California who have...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (3): 465–493.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Rihan Yeh A series of ethnographic examples, all related to a demonstration at the International Port of Entry connecting Tijuana, Mexico, to San Diego, California, show the importance for Tijuana's public sphere of the distinction between documented and undocumented status vis-à-vis the United...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (1): 5–23.
Published: 01 January 2020
...Kathryn A. Mariner On March 26, 2018, Jennifer Hart drove her SUV off a cliff along the northern coast of California with her partner and at least five of their transracially adopted Black children inside. Their remains were recovered at the crash site. As of this writing, a sixth child, Devonte...
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