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Cosmopolitan De-scriptions: Shanghai and Hong Kong

Ackbar Abbas
Public Culture (2000) 12 (3): 769–786.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-12-3-769
Published: 01 September 2000
... (1997) and “Dialectic of Deception”( Public Culture , spring 1999). PC 12.3-09 Abbas 11/16/00 4:19 PM Page 769 Cosmopolitan De-scriptions: Shanghai and Hong Kong Ackbar Abbas...
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Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in History

Sheldon Pollock
Public Culture (2000) 12 (3): 591–625.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-12-3-591
Published: 01 September 2000
... 11/16/00 3:01 PM Page 591 Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in History Sheldon Pollock F ew things seem to us as natural as the multiplicity of vernacular...
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On Reconciling Cosmopolitan Unity and National Diversity

Thomas McCarthy
Public Culture (1999) 11 (1): 175–208.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-11-1-175
Published: 01 January 1999
...Thomas McCarthy Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 On Reconciling Cosmopolitan Unity and National Diversity Thomas McCarthy T here are few ideas as important to the history of modern democracy...
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Electro- Dabke : Performing Cosmopolitan Nationalism and Borderless Humanity

Nadeem Karkabi
Public Culture (2018) 30 (1): 173–196.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-4189215
Published: 01 January 2018
... examines how the Palestinian electro- dabke bands Ministry of Dub-Key and 47Soul perform rooted authenticity in conjunction with cosmopolitan aesthetics to appeal stylistically to both local and foreign audiences. Whereas Palestinian cultural performance has focused in the past on heroic struggle...
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Cosmopolitanisms

Sheldon Pollock, Homi K. Bhabha, Carol A. Breckenridge, Dipesh Chakrabarty
Public Culture (2000) 12 (3): 577–589.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-12-3-577
Published: 01 September 2000
...: Dwelling in Modernity” ( Public Culture , winter 1999). PC 12.3-000 Introduction v2 11/16/00 2:56 PM Page 577 Cosmopolitanisms Sheldon Pollock, Homi K. Bhabha, Carol...
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Imagining Solidarity: Cosmopolitanism, Constitutional Patriotism, and the Public Sphere

Craig Calhoun
Public Culture (2002) 14 (1): 147–171.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-14-1-147
Published: 01 January 2002
... Transnational Politics , edited by Pablo De Greiff and Ciaran Cronin. Imagining Solidarity: Cosmopolitanism, Constitutional Patriotism, and the Public Sphere Craig Calhoun...
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Genealogies of Race and Culture and the Failure of Vernacular Cosmopolitanisms: Rereading Franz Boas and W. E. B. Du Bois

Charles L. Briggs
Public Culture (2005) 17 (1): 75–100.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-17-1-75
Published: 01 January 2005
.... New Left Review 17 : 5 -30. Appadurai, Arjun. 1988 . Putting hierarchy in its place. Cultural Anthropology 3 : 36 -49. Appiah, K. Anthony. 1993 . In my father's house: Africa in the philosophy of culture . New York: Oxford. ———. 2001 . Cosmopolitan reading. In Cosmopolitan...
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The Many Faces of Cosmo-polis: Border Thinking and Critical Cosmopolitanism

Walter D. Mignolo
Public Culture (2000) 12 (3): 721–748.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-12-3-721
Published: 01 September 2000
... . From Cold War to trade war:Neocolonialism and human rights. Social Text 58 , 1 -32. Kristeva, Julia. 1991 . Strangers to ourselves , translated by L. S. Roudiez. New York: Columbia University Press. McCarthy, Thomas. 1999 . On reconciling cosmopolitan unity and national diversity. Public...
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The Senegalese Murid Trade Diaspora and the Making of a Vernacular Cosmopolitanism

Mamadou Diouf
Public Culture (2000) 12 (3): 679–702.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-12-3-679
Published: 01 September 2000
... Diouf 11/16/00 3:05 PM Page 679 The Senegalese Murid Trade Diaspora and the Making of a Vernacular Cosmopolitanism Mamadou Diouf...
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Cosmopolitanism and the Banality of Geographical Evils

David Harvey
Public Culture (2000) 12 (2): 529–564.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-12-2-529
Published: 01 May 2000
... . Speed,transcendentalism, and cosmopolitanism . Unpublished manuscript,Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University,Baltimore. Das, V. 1990 . Mirrors of violence:Communities, riots, and survivors in South Asia . Oxford: Oxford University Press. ———. 1995 . Critical events...
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Buying into the Dream: The Religion of Racial Capitalism in Coca-Cola’s World

Lucia Hulsether
Public Culture (2018) 30 (3): 483–508.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-6912151
Published: 01 September 2018
...Lucia Hulsether When the Coca-Cola Company bankrolled a new National Center for Civil and Human Rights (NCCHR), it was reviving a century-long reformation: the project to produce cosmopolitan consumer citizenship as normative humanity and to incarnate global markets as beloved community. This essay...
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Microloans and Micronarratives: Sentiment for a Small World

Shameem Black
Public Culture (2009) 21 (2): 269–292.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2008-029
Published: 01 May 2009
...Shameem Black This essay evaluates the contribution that sentimentality might make to cosmopolitan practices in contemporary life. In particular, it considers how the legacy of feminized sentimental fiction informs twenty-first-century rhetoric on the Internet. The essay examines how the person...
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Every Turk Is Born a Soldier

Noah Arjomand
Public Culture (2017) 29 (3 (83)): 418–432.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3869524
Published: 01 September 2017
... dimensions of postcoup Turkish politics. The rituals that Mehmet plays out the night before basic training mirror the larger-scale symbolic and physical advance of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s faithful on Istanbul’s once cosmopolitan urban center. Mehmet and his friends idolize Erdoğan, the essay argues...
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Imagin(in)g Racial France: Take 1 KaKuDji

Dominique Malaquais
Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 19–26.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2010-012
Published: 01 January 2011
...Dominique Malaquais France is most cosmopolitan where it is least central. If the City of Lights is a cosmopolis, it is far less so in Saint-Germain-des-Près or the Marais than in its disenfranchised banlieues (suburbs) and many an (ex) colonies on which its language was and continues...
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Cultural Globalization and the US Civil Rights Movement

Steve Spence
Public Culture (2011) 23 (3 (65)): 551–572.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1336417
Published: 01 September 2011
... the movement to mold a shadowy force, “world opinion,” into a weapon. To illuminate these forces at work, this article follows the journeys of an unlikely cosmopolitan, Sidney W. Smyer. A white businessman from Birmingham, Alabama, Smyer’s transformation from Dixiecrat politician to reluctant integrationist...
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Why Public Culture?

Arjun Appadurai, Carol A. Breckenridge
Public Culture (1988) 1 (1): 5–9.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1-1-5
Published: 01 January 1988
... is increasingly a cosmopolitan world. More people are widely travelled, are catholic in their tastes, are more inclusive in the range of cuisines they consume, are attentive to world- wide news, are exposed to global media-covered events, and are influenced by universal trends in fashion. In recent...
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Nationalism and Cultures of Democracy

Craig Calhoun
Public Culture (2007) 19 (1): 151–173.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2006-028
Published: 01 January 2007
.... Transnational movements press for action. But for the most part the action comes, if it does, from national states. Likewise, there is no nonnational and cosmopolitan solution available to com- plex humanitarian emergencies like that in Darfur...
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Editors' Comments

Public Culture (1988) 1 (1): 1–4.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1-1-1
Published: 01 January 1988
..., by their nature, are reflected in the emergent public cultures of many nation-states. Furthermore, these public cultures constitute the centers of new forms of cosmopolitanism in many linguistic and cultural ecumenes. Thus we seek to report on these burgeoning public cultures, on the debates...
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Ulf Hannerz

Dominic Boyer
Public Culture (2014) 26 (1 (72)): 187–199.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2346295
Published: 01 January 2014
... is often more narcissism, rather than more cosmopolitanism. Will such efforts at informing the public about the world elsewhere take the form of cultural critique? Sometimes, no doubt. But I am reminded of Marshall Sahlins’s comment somewhere that we should not make it seem as if other people have...
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The Pauper's Gift: Postcolonial Theory and the New Democratic Dispensation

Leela Gandhi
Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 27–38.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2010-013
Published: 01 January 2011
... this trope in its complex relation to the three adjunct themes of universalism, cosmopolitanism, and politics and, most distinctively, as the only means for a long-­overdue revaluation of “the common,” a hitherto underworked idea, we...
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