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Fashion, Gender and the Bengali Middle Class
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Public Culture (1991) 3 (2): 93–112.
Published: 01 May 1991
...Dulali Nag Copyright © 1991 by the Center For Transnational Cultural Studies 1991 Fashion, Gender and
the Bengali Middle Class
Dulaii Nag
This essay is about difference-gender and ethnic-and how it is pro-
duced within...
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Thinking through Transnationalism: Notes on the Cultural Politics of Class Relations in the Contemporary United States
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Public Culture (1995) 7 (2): 353–402.
Published: 01 May 1995
... . Simulations . New York: Semiotext(e). Berberoglu , B. 1992 . The Legacy of Empire: Economic Decline and Class Polarization in the United States . New York: Praeger. Bottomore , T. et al., eds. 1983 . A Dictionary of Marxist Thought . Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Bottomore , T...
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Can There Be a Subaltern Middle Class? Notes on African American and Dalit History
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (2): 321–342.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Gyanendra Pandey Focusing on specific assemblages that have historically been seen as communities of lower-class and underclass individuals and families, this essay examines the history of members of these “communities” who come to inhabit not the positions of the down-and-out, where they allegedly...
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No Nations, but Classes
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Public Culture (1993) 6 (1): 77–82.
Published: 01 January 1993
... . “Taming the Ascetic: Devotionalism in a Hindu Monastic Order.” Man 22 ( 4 ): 680 -95. No Nations, but Classes
Peter van der Veer
1n 1973, during my only visit to Calcutta, I had the opportunity to meet a few
Communist "cadres...
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Moving Rape: Trafficking in the Violence of Postliberalization
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 331–359.
Published: 01 May 2015
... relationship within a mode of consumer citizenship that revalorizes Indian middle classes. I argue that the men who drive are members of a lower class with an ambivalent position in liberalized Indian economies, simultaneously excluded from protections of government and relied on to do the dangerous job...
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The Police Are the Punishment
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (3): 539–561.
Published: 01 September 2019
... or at the precinct, including against innocent individuals. Such punishment is disproportionately imposed on working-class men from disadvantaged neighborhoods belonging to ethnoracial minorities. It is justified in the eyes of the police by representations of these publics as potential criminals and of the judges...
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Private Selves as Public Property: Black Women’s Self-Making in the Contemporary Moment
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (1): 107–131.
Published: 01 January 2020
...Jenn M. Jackson The American imperial project exploits race, class, gender, and sexual differences in the name of the state. But in what ways has the transformative nature of American imperialism intervened in the public and private lives of Black women? This essay asks, What impact has...
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Mediants, Materiality, Normativity
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 221–237.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Arjun Appadurai This essay outlines a new approach to the problem of mediation, materiality, and the distribution of agency across human and nonhuman entities by moving the focus away from Bruno Latour’s “actants” to a class of agentive entities called “mediants.” 2015 agency dividual...
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Bored Stiff: Sex and Superfluity in a Time of Crisis
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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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“Entrenched in the Bmw”: Argentine Elites and the Terror of Fiscal Obligation
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (2 (67)): 329–356.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Mireille Abelin This essay explores the public drama that ensues after a husband and wife lock themselves in their BMW to protest the Buenos Aires provincial tax authority’s attempt to sequester their vehicle. When the conflict airs in real time on the evening news, class tensions erupt outside...
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Thinking Through Everyday Inequality
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (2 (82)): 227–234.
Published: 01 May 2017
... of inequality (e.g., segregation and the division of labor) are sidelined by explicit adoption of egalitarian principles, the essay shows that, even when democratic civility prevails, background inequalities on the basis of race, gender, social class, and immigration status are often reproduced in mundane...
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Neo-homesteading: Domestic Production and the Limits of the Postwage Imagination
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (3 (92)): 465–490.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Alison Shonkwiler This essay examines the growing interest in home-based labor in light of the changing structures of conventional work. Neo-homesteading, particularly in its part-time and casual modes, reveals the conflicted middle-class desire to achieve freedom from the wage economy without...
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Battle for Housing and Mutual Witnessing
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 365–373.
Published: 01 September 2022
... displacements between houses and cities. These practices are embedded in an intense and widespread network of mutual witness, placing questions of class, race, aging, and gender, as well as the power of criminal groups, in the same web of relationships. The author argues that local relations and mutual...
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Filth and the Public Sphere: Concepts and Practices about Space in Calcutta
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Public Culture (1997) 10 (1): 83–113.
Published: 01 January 1997
..., of those who own property and those
who can only defile it, of legality and illegality, of obedience and furtive evasion
of rules. It shows in an everyday form the contest between a bourgeois order of
the middle class and those who flout its...
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Race, Identity and Political Activism: The Shifting Contours of the African American Public Sphere
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Public Culture (1994) 7 (1): 147–164.
Published: 01 January 1994
... of the middle classes.' This view offers a reductive
and decontextualized perspective on class identities, narrowly conceptualizing
African American class formation as a function of occupational mobility. Equally
important, this exodus model deflects attention from the institutional power rela...
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Check Yo Self, Before You Wreck Yo Self: Variations on a Political Theme in Rap Music and Popular Culture
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Public Culture (1994) 7 (1): 289–312.
Published: 01 January 1994
... Development as
it pertains to the opening up of discussions surrounding conflicts between race
and class identity, youth culture, violence and the compromising influences of
commercialism on political content. In relation to these broader issues...
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Transforming Heroes: Hollywood and the Demonization of Women
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Public Culture (1991) 3 (2): 1–28.
Published: 01 May 1991
...Elizabeth G. Traube Copyright © 1991 by the Center For Transnational Cultural Studies 1991 References Baritz , Loren . ( 1982 ) The Good Life: The Meaning of Success for the American Middle Class . New York: Harper & Row. Bensman , Joseph , and Arthur Vidich. ( 1971...
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The Corporeal Politics of Quality ( Suzhi )
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Public Culture (2004) 16 (2): 189–208.
Published: 01 May 2004
.... Rethinking Marxism 9 , no. 2: 45 -78. Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari. 1983 . Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and schizophrenia . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Dong, Amy Yan, Shi Wei, and David Li. 2001 . Mr. and Mrs. Middle Class move in. South China Morning Post , 3 February, 8...
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Marxism, Location Politics, and the Possibility of Critique
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Public Culture (1993) 6 (1): 41–54.
Published: 01 January 1993
...Vivek Dhareshwar Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Literature Cited Balibar , Etienne . 1991 . “From Class Struggle to Classless Struggle.” In Etienne Balibar and Immanuel Wallerstein. Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities . London: Verso. Derrida , Jacques...
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