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Public Culture (2009) 21 (3): 517–537.
Published: 01 September 2009
... conducted in several of Turkey's major urban centers. The figure of the secularist crowd provides an image of secularism grounded not in the coercive apparatuses of the military and the modernizing bureaucracy but in an assertion of populism. This article explores the tentative formation of a secular...
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Public Culture (2003) 15 (3): 399–425.
Published: 01 September 2003
... in the history of Filipino nationalism. The Cell Phone and the Crowd:
Messianic Politics in the
Contemporary Philippines
Vicente L. Rafael
This essay explores a set of telecommunicative fantasies...
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in Rally Day: The Urban Landscape of Postcolonial Political Violence in Sierra Leone
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Published: 01 May 2023
figure 4 The crowd confronts a young man accused of being a thief. Video stills by the author.
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (2): 237–263.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Setrag Manoukian Through a discussion of crowds and audio-vision in post-election Iran, the essay places the relationship between experience and politics at the center of current events in the country and analyzes the powerful but dispersed combination of crowds, images, sounds, voices, bodies...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (2 (100)): 255–277.
Published: 01 May 2023
...figure 4 The crowd confronts a young man accused of being a thief. Video stills by the author. ...
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Public Culture (1992) 5 (1): 83–88.
Published: 01 January 1992
... campaign city streets, attracting huge crowds of
spectators who stand potentially mobile, poised as if waiting for some inci-
dent to rush toward - in Central Javanese terms, gumrubyug: the unmis-
takable sound of a crowd on the move, piropelled by an energy all its own.
In the midst of the 1982...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (3): 441–464.
Published: 01 September 2018
... liberal theories of we-ness: when caught up in a group, “I” may lose its autonomy. 3 This vein of doubt came into its own in the late nineteenth century, with the advent of mass society. Early crowd theory elaborates on the frightening scenarios that the loss of autonomy of “I” might result in: random...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (2 (91)): 287–326.
Published: 01 May 2020
... of political inevitability, between accountings of formal change and claims about material transubstantiation. The “wave” has affinities with such abstractions as “the people,” “the public,” “the population,” “the crowd,” and “the network” (see Kelty, Irani, and Seaver 2012 ) — all of which implicate...
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Public Culture (2007) 19 (1): 35–57.
Published: 01 January 2007
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and in a sense the biggest issue is the Five Year Plan.”10 Crowd action was no
longer political in Nehru’s reckoning; it was merely an act of hooliganism carried
out in the name of politics. As he put it to the students in Patna: “Now how do you...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (1 (96)): 21–45.
Published: 01 January 2022
... no relevance to any structural transformations. 13 Finally, yuqing analytics’ interpretive framework grows out of crowd psychology. In the inaugurating report, People's Daily 's analysts concluded by suggesting that deviant ( piancha ) yuqing was driven by a “web mob” ( baomin ) (Zhu, Hu, and Sun...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (1): 173–196.
Published: 01 January 2018
... of Arab cultural production, especially in the Palestinian context, and its performance to both local and international crowds. It engages with a long-standing debate in ethnomusicology and cultural studies about balancing the preservation of localized authenticity with the advancement of universal...
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (3 68): 601–622.
Published: 01 September 2012
... of financial mania popularly embodied
by texts such as Charles Mackay’s 1841 Extraordinary Popular Delusions and
the Madness of Crowds. In the contemporary and widely disseminated depictions
of the South Sea Bubble of 1720, this fear appeared...
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (2): 341–348.
Published: 01 May 2002
..., a movement of political ideologies, a movement of practices of everyday
life, and a movement of real people.
On the Day of Recruiting
The crowd stood fast at the factory gate. Three factory guards, male, tall, and
strong...
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Public Culture (2007) 19 (2): 227–232.
Published: 01 May 2007
...; I didn’t see it. Raanan, standing just
below me on the hill, thinks it may have been a Musta’rib, an Israeli soldier dis-
guised as a Palestinian, planted in the crowd in order to incite and turn the dem-
onstration violent...
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Public Culture (1995) 8 (1): 101–126.
Published: 01 January 1995
... reflected in the urban middle-class discourse
regarding the lower classes. A new term emerged to designate this heterogenous
lower-class population: the bakya crowd. Coined in the early 1960s by Filipino
film director and national artist Lamberto...
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Public Culture (1994) 6 (2): 385–396.
Published: 01 May 1994
... other, each approximately five blocks
long, and crowded with more than five hundred vending stands, thousands of
shoppers, and performance artists. There are millet beer vendors, tourist art
merchants, vendors of original textiles from Burkina Faso (called Fuso Dun
Funi), condom...
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Public Culture (1989) 2 (1): 54–71.
Published: 01 January 1989
... of the ceremonies of a
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court closed to commoners, Tiananmen Square offers ritual representations
of popular government. During the forty years of Communist rule, it has
been a place to which 'the people' came in large crowds to witness displays...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (1 (72)): 3–11.
Published: 01 January 2014
..., crowd-sourced, participatory, and yet also hypercommercialized. From Blackboard to Instagram, sites that began with user-generated content have changed not only ownership but terms of use. Tantalizing in design, they ultimately existed to turn voluntary and open contribution into someone else’s profit...
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Public Culture (2007) 19 (3): 567–592.
Published: 01 September 2007
... caused
by large quantities of an explosive known as RDX, a black soap – like substance,
which was loaded onto several four- and two-wheelers. Planted strategically in
and around important city buildings, crowded marketplaces, and hotels, each
vehicle exploded within fifteen or thirty minutes...
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Public Culture (1996) 8 (3): 567–585.
Published: 01 September 1996
... by the basketful from
balconies, the morning Mediterranean sun warming the stone pavement, the
litanies of Arabic surging in waves from the crowd, several old women with
creased faces and black dresses holding pictures of an old man und rocking and
prancing, moaning loudly, rhythmically, soldiers...
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