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Public Culture (2002) 14 (3): 611–615.
Published: 01 September 2002
... (2001) and (with Roxann Prazniak) Places and Politics in an Age of Globalization (2001). Historical Colonialism in
Contemporary Perspective
Arif Dirlik
I offer here a few thoughts provoked by Achille Mbembe’s...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (3 (95)): 417–440.
Published: 01 September 2021
... mineral deposits in Hokkaidō, Japan's northern island, long inhabited by the Indigenous Ainu people. Following anticolonial and archipelagic scholarship, the author reads across earthly archives of geological strata and colonial archives of historical documents to elucidate the conceptual duality...
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Public Culture (2006) 18 (1): 147–184.
Published: 01 January 2006
...George Steinmetz; Julia Hell © 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 P h o t o - e s s ay
The Visual Archive of Colonialism:
Germany and Namibia
George Steinmetz and Julia Hell...
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Public Culture (2024) 36 (1 (102)): 75–95.
Published: 01 January 2024
... of colonial fetishism and settler disavowal. It demonstrates how these expressions of shock are not, as they might appear, authentic responses to genuinely unknown events but rather are part of a system of discourses that conceal the violence of settler colonialism by erasing its continuities, displacing its...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 121–156.
Published: 01 January 2011
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Between 2000 and 2009, the amount published on France’s colonial history was
nothing short of astounding. Pierre Vidal-Naquet’s La torture dans la république
(2000); Marc Ferro’s Le livre noir du colonialisme (2003); Claude Liauzu’s Colo-
nisation: Droit d’inventaire (2004); Olivier Le Cour...
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Public Culture (1997) 9 (3): 395–415.
Published: 01 September 1997
...David Clarke Copyright © 1997 by © 1997 by the University of Chicago 1997 Varieties of Cultural Hybridity:
Hong Kong Art in the
Late Colonial Era
David Clarke
Cultural hybridity...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 419–436.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Andrea Roberts; Valentina Aduen; Jennifer Blanks; Schuyler Carter; Kendall Girault Abstract After Juneteenth, formerly enslaved African Americans in Texas founded hundreds of historic Black settlements known as freedom colonies. Later, freedom colonies’ populations dispersed, physical traces...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (1 (93)): 65–85.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Ann Laura Stoler Abstract This article identifies two radical shifts in how colonialism is politically positioned and temporally framed, shifts that alter what invocations of colonialism look like, what distinguishes the attention they garner, and thus what they are implicitly or explicitly called...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1989) 1 (2): 84–85.
Published: 01 May 1989
...Stephen Inglis Copyright © 1989 by the Project For Transnational Cultural Studies 1989 Post-Colonial Museums: Dead or Alive?
Stephen Inglis
Reflections on the "Workshop on Museums," October 20-21, 1986, Madras Mu-
seum, Madras, India.
A group of Lambadi (a nomadic...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 177–189.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Marnia Lazreg This essay analyzes the pitfalls of the adoption of postcolonial studies by French colonial historians and traces their roots to a deep-seated identity investment in the colonial empire, especially Algeria. It examines French colonial historiography's elision of racism as a willed...
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Public Culture (2001) 13 (3): 431–458.
Published: 01 September 2001
...Kyeong-Hee Choi © 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Kyeong-Hee Choi is an assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. She is the author of “Neither Colonial nor National: The Making of the `New Woman'in Pak Wansŏ's...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (1 (93)): 115–128.
Published: 01 January 2021
..., war, and navigation and its bottomless urge to find and explore new examples of the boundary between humanity and its others. But as it has thus extended its dominion, it has also always wanted to bring its colonies closer to home, for the purposes of display, scientific study, and entertainment. Thus...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (2 (97)): 243–264.
Published: 01 May 2022
... systems of knowledge and life forms and of the colonial inheritance and epistemicide. The article follows various historical events, such as Léopold Sédar Senghor's encounter with African art in Paris after World War I and the British colonial destruction of the Kingdom of Benin in 1897; turns...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (1): 101–140.
Published: 01 January 2009
... changes would largely affirm an already emergent set of relations.
58. See Aimé Césaire, Discours sur le colonialisme (Discourse on Colonialism) (Paris: Présence
Africaine, 2000); Césaire, “Culture et colonisation” (“Culture and Colonisation Présence afri
caine, nos. 8 – 10 (1956): 190 – 205...
Journal Article
Public Culture 11593079.
Published: 20 February 2025
... exploitative settler’ among their native compatriots. Despite this image having a specific colonial history, this article contends that the persistence of anti-Indian sentiments—and the ire and violence—is not simply a “legacy of colonialism” or evidence of natives’ xenophobia. It is rather a product of closed...
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Public Culture (2024) 36 (1 (102)): 17–45.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Ayala Levin Abstract This essay is concerned with how architecture was imagined to mediate tropical climate in the interest of forming productive postcolonial national subjects. It charts a transition in approach from late colonial to postcolonial modernist architecture as it was exemplified...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (3): 419–445.
Published: 01 September 2019
...–police power nexus draws together histories of so-called small wars, insurgencies, civil rebellions, labor strikes, prison uprisings, and practices of resistance at various scales that have responded and continue to respond to colonial occupation and racial capitalism. Once we situate drones...
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Public Culture 11593027.
Published: 20 February 2025
..., and creativity. Crossing both axes, water is a key force, as metaphor, energy, and threat. Second, port cities are typically exceptional to the nations to which they pertain, frequently occupying the status of a “minor” city in any given national or regional imaginary, even while part of colonial...
Journal Article
Public Culture 11593053.
Published: 20 February 2025
... connected to that of multiculturalism. It traces the conceptual links between the colonial “multiracialism” that defined the contexts in East Africa from where the Asians were expelled and what is today called multiculturalism. It makes the case that both might be better understood in relation...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (1 (96)): 99–121.
Published: 01 January 2022
...Sony Devabhaktuni; Joanna Mansbridge Abstract This article examines the 2019 Hong Kong protests from the perspective of urban space and the city's historical founding as a colonial entrepôt. Specifically, it explores how the protests destabilized both the urban fabric of the city and the political...
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