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Charlie Hebdo: White Context and Black Analytics
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (1): 45–67.
Published: 01 January 2019
...Alana Lentin The call for a parsing of the French context that accompanied the aftermath of the attacks on the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo mobilized what Barnor Hesse calls a “white analytics.” Such a partial vision of France as “exceptional” in matters of race denies the significance...
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Non-Sense in Context: Xu Bing's Art and Its Publics
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Public Culture (1993) 5 (2): 317–327.
Published: 01 May 1993
...Janelle S. Taylor; Greg Anderson Copyright © 1993 by The University of Chicago 1993 Non-Sense in Context:
Xu Bing’s Art and Its Publics
Interview and Translation by Janelle S. Taylor...
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Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962)
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (2 (91)): 405–413.
Published: 01 May 2020
...: namely, that major changes in different disciplines and diverse historical contexts conform to a single “structure.” Key Kuhnian concepts such as “paradigm shift” have become part of everyday language but all but disappeared from specialist publications. Nonetheless, the book still galvanizes readers...
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Nowcasting provided by the Tropical Marine Science Institute. The radar ima...
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in Modernist Infrastructure and the Vital Systems Security of Water: Singapore’s Pluripotent Climate Futures
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Published: 01 May 2016
Figure 3 Nowcasting provided by the Tropical Marine Science Institute. The radar image on the left shows Singapore in the regional context of the Malay Peninsula (north) and Indonesia’s Riau Islands (south). The right-hand image shows expected rainfall intensity in different parts of the city
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Surveillant Witnessing: Satellite Imagery and the Visual Politics of Human Rights
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (3 (74)): 469–500.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Andrew Herscher In the early 2000s, human rights nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) began to avail themselves of newly commercialized satellite imagery in their advocacy efforts. In human rights contexts, satellite imaging vastly extends capacities to detect and respond to abuses of human rights...
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Mircea Eliade, Patterns in Comparative Religion (1949; trans. 1958)
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (2 (91)): 385–396.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Laurie L. Patton This article discusses the work of Mircea Eliade, especially Patterns in Comparative Religion , as an “Undead text.” Beginning with an analysis of Eliade’s work as it was understood in the 1980s, the author moves on to discuss the role of Patterns in the context of Eliade’s life...
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Animating Irony: The Force of Irony in Online and Offline Political Movements
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (2 (100)): 191–206.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Farhan Samanani; Susannah Crockford; Daniel M. Knight; Craig Stensrud; Girish Daswani; Marc Tuters; Io Chaviara Abstract Contemporary politics seems to be saturated with irony. In the context of social movements, this creates a perplexing mix of sincerity and insincerity, in which ambivalence...
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Vanishing Mediators: or, Multiculturalism Expelled
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Public Culture (2024) 36 (3 (104)): 361–375.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Taushif Kara Abstract The expulsion of Ugandan Asians in 1972 coincided with the formal and informal development of multiculturalism as state policy and as shibboleth, while their arrival in places like Canada and Britain accelerated or compelled its advance. In both contexts, Uganda's Asians...
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An “Eventful” History of Hind Swaraj : Gandhi between the Battle of Tsushima and the Union of South Africa
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 299–319.
Published: 01 May 2011
... had given to the terrorists. For Gandhi, the Japanese example led in a militaristic and Westernizing direction. To this he counterposed his own model of peaceful resistance and idealized village life. Gandhi's critique of modernity needs to be understood within the context of this project, which...
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Rural Voids
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (1): 61–84.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Miriam Driessen As urban regions change in contemporary China, rural regions change no less dramatically. This essay sheds light on the discursive context in which rural transformations occur, by introducing the concept of “rural voids.” Rural voids are spaces that are not only plagued...
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A Bookmobile Critique of Institutions, Infrastructure, and Precarious Mobility
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (2): 305–327.
Published: 01 May 2018
..., practices, and memories. Contexts of economic and political precarity both produce the motivation for sponsoring bookmobiles and sharpen the contours of relationships between institutions, infrastructure, people, and texts. A critique of bookmobiles opens up two avenues of theoretical implications: first...
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Guest Editors' Introduction: Debating Capital, Spectacle, and Modernity
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Public Culture (2008) 20 (3): 531–538.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Alex Jeffrey; Colin McFarlane; Alex Vasudevan This article introduces the dossier of responses to the RETORT collective's Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War (2005). We seek to ground this text in its political and theoretical context, identifying its relevance to scholars...
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Looking for Humanitarian Purpose: Endurance and the Value of Lives in a Palestinian Refugee Camp
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (3 (77)): 427–447.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Ilana Feldman This essay explores the vexing question of humanitarian purpose. It specifically considers the challenge of defining and pursuing this purpose in the context of long-term humanitarian interventions, when the clarity of saving lives from immediate danger recedes from its central place...
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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
...Sareeta Amrute This article discusses violence against women in cars in India, including the recent high-profile Delhi rape case, arguing that these cases should be set in the context of economic liberalization. The dynamic between women and their drivers should be understood as a labor...
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Introduction: Biomedical Trans-Actions, Postgenomics, and Knowledge/Value
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (3 (71)): 463–475.
Published: 01 September 2013
... ability to produce “truth,” and that translational research is a signifier of a contemporary biomedicine that operates “in the trans-,” under the sign and context of various movements across domains that see the production, articulation, and problematization of knowledge and value. This argument...
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Love, Fear, and the Arab Spring
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (1 (72)): 127–152.
Published: 01 January 2014
... to the Prince as a frame, the essay analyzes these strategies of rule as they were used by the United States government and by the Arab regimes in the context of the Arab uprisings of 2011. The essay contextualizes these strategies in the history of the Cold War, the rise of neoliberal economics...
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Cures, Tuberculosis, and Deterritorialized Biomedical Narratives
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (2): 269–276.
Published: 01 May 2018
... cultural shifts accompanied these medical debates and developments. Randomized controlled trials now dominate as an evidentiary form in tuberculosis control with implications for how global health efforts roll out across diverse cultural contexts. A pharmaceutical approach drives the international export...
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Assembling the Living Archive: A Media-Archaeological Excavation of Occupy Wall Street
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (2): 283–303.
Published: 01 May 2018
... politics and the actual production of such an archive through social and technical systems that preexist it. Such experiments in self-archiving, the essay argues, are crucial to better understanding power and collective agency in the context of digital media. For Michel Foucault (1972 : 129...
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Decolonizing Diversity: The Transnational Politics of Minority Racial Difference
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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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Hymenal Politics: Marriage, Secularism, and French Sovereignty
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (3): 531–556.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Judith Surkis This essay situates a recent French marriage annulment scandal in the context of debates about Islam, gender, and immigration; the relationship between the secularism of French law and Catholic marriage law; and the history of Muslim law under French colonial rule. Copyright 2010...
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