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Public Culture (2016) 28 (3 (80)): 457–473.
Published: 01 September 2016
...-led or Northern-dominated) responses to displacement from Syria. 2016 humanitarianism Palestinians refugees Syria visibility As you walk on the trace Of those who left before you, While the moon is faint in the sky, Say to yourself, if you can: Absence is the trace...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (3 (83)): 515–538.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Georgina Ramsay The recent mass displacement of refugees has been described internationally as a “crisis.” But crisis implies eventfulness: a distinct problem that can be solved. The urgency of solving this problem of displacement has seen the use of expansive techniques of sovereignty across...
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Public Culture (2005) 17 (1): 129–152.
Published: 01 January 2005
....” Displaced Bodies in
Residual Spaces
Simon Leung and Marita Sturken
B etween 1992 and 1998, Simon Leung made three works that engage, in his
words, “the residual space of the Vietnam War.” Involving installation,
performance...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 365–373.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Camila Pierobon Abstract This article reflects on the dangers related to the circulation and displacement of the urban poor in Brazil, which intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic. The author describes a moment when Black women with small children asked for permission from the leadership...
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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): 1–18.
Published: 01 January 2011
... in a relentless effort to displace the fault lines of power-knowledge. However, to what extent can this contemporary scholarship rid itself of the categories of nineteenth-century academic disciplines? By considering the third languages of the postcolonial world, one can address this predicament of thinking...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (1 (81)): 53–78.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Jess Bier Maps are considered to be an ultimate expression of modernity. Empirical cartography plays a central role in daily governance, and it also has a long history of furthering displacement and erasure. In this article I argue that the landscapes of historic British colonialism and the ongoing...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (1): 215–245.
Published: 01 January 2020
... memories of contemporary digital cultures from receding into oblivion? This essay answers this question by looking at one of the institutions in which the problems associated with digital fragility are most especially felt, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and by exploring the ontological displacements...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 359–387.
Published: 01 May 2016
... to distinguish community-organized relocation from forced relocation and climate-induced displacement. Understanding community-organized relocation efforts as forms of retreat unifies this emerging practice with other social movements and political projects that seek more sustainable ways of settling on earth...
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in Property, Dispossession, and Citizenship in Turkey; Or, the History of the Gezi Uprising Starts in the Surp Hagop Armenian Cemetery
> Public Culture
Published: 01 September 2016
Figure 1 Surp Hagop cemetery in 1940, after the Istanbul municipality razed it to the ground. The gravestones were still visible, although displaced and knocked down. Source: Aras Publishing Archive
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Public Culture (1990) 3 (1): 25–32.
Published: 01 January 1990
...
this thin edge of
barbwire.
- Gloria Anzaldlia
READING A POSTCOLONIAL POLITICS OF LOCATION
IN THE POETICS OF DISPLACEMENT
As we begin the last decade of this centmy we may have no better terms
to describe our worldly activities than...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 375–384.
Published: 01 September 2022
... as discrete spatial typology. They hold together opaque infrastructures of services and stories, act as architectures of refuge, and are formed in the wake of violence and displacement experienced generationally and in the immediate urban context. An architectural reading of black markets enables a drawing...
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Public Culture (1996) 8 (3): 511–537.
Published: 01 September 1996
... out on
the bodies of women, I examine the way feminist discourses that enact a spectacle
of transgressive female practices can dislodge constraints on women’s speech.
By putting the male body on the line, both Bobbitt and SCUM render the male
body visible and displace the logics...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (1): 9–19.
Published: 01 January 2009
... hundred thousand displaced from their homes in violence
fueled by outrage over the stolen election.2 As the killing and burning spread
across the country in early January, Kofi Annan, the former secretary-general of
the United Nations, was called in to mediate between the two rival leaders...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1993) 5 (3): 621–625.
Published: 01 September 1993
... at the colloquium "The Literature of Displacement: The Writer and the South Asian
Diaspora," November 23, 1991, at the University of Pennsylvania.
Public Culture 1993, 5: 621-625
01993 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 359–364.
Published: 01 September 2022
... race and the racial project of US empire are made in and through the “suburban periphery.” Homestead is located within the United States but is produced by circulations and displacements far beyond it: a site of migrant labor, it is a metropole to which displaced workers from the peripheries—including...
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Public Culture (1994) 6 (2): 241–262.
Published: 01 May 1994
... of an extended national family, privileged
benefactors of an extensive inheritance. Displacing economic concerns with a
patently "cultural" gift, this novel inheritance offered Indonesians a bequest they
apparently could not afford to refuse. Built...
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Public Culture (2004) 16 (2): 239–264.
Published: 01 May 2004
... of the overseer is displaced by that of the boy with a stopwatch, but the shift
from the spectacular to the scopic yields the subject-object positions of the narrator
“stripped to [the] waist” and “on [his] knees” at the feet of “a white doctor or
nurse.” While the embodiment of power is visibly weakened...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (3 (77)): 427–447.
Published: 01 September 2015
... sixty-five years of displacement, on what seemed to be a fundamental uncertainty of purpose in humanitarian work over this long term, she nodded vigorously in agreement. Yes, she said, it was in emergencies—such as after the Lebanese army’s destruction of the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in Lebanon...
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Public Culture (1990) 2 (2): 82–101.
Published: 01 May 1990
... contrast strongly with his excited acceptance of the informa-
tion revolution in most respects.8 As he sees it, not only does the informa-
tion revolution help us break the multiple constraints of modernity - the
rigidity of the (modem) subject being displaced by the free floating self con...
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