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in Bullets and Boomerangs: Proleptic Uses of Failure in Myanmar's Anti-coup Uprising
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Published: 01 January 2023
FIGURES 17A–17C Thinzar Shunlei Yi's #Sisters2Sisters photo and two cartoon tropes. Figure 17a courtesy of Thinzar Shunlei Yi. Figure 17c courtesy of Ae Chan Aung.
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Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 15 Detail from figure 2, Group 57 workshop interior and matching image from Atelier Populaire 1968 as featured in Labor and Art, 1980. Personal collection of authors.
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Published: 01 January 2017
Figure 5 A screenshot of detail from figure 1 , centered on Jerusalem. Label placement is approximate. It demonstrates how aspects of the display can be determined by the program, although there are also options for customization. Map by the author. Data appear courtesy of Global Map
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Public Culture (1995) 7 (2): 323–352.
Published: 01 May 1995
... of J.M. Ela, T. Mouctar Bah, V. Ombe Ndzana, S. Zoa, H. Bouba, A. Inoua, A. Ayissi and A. Ashforth. C.A. Breckenridge offered insightful remarks and encouragement. Figures of the Subject in Times
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Achille Mbembe...
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Public Culture (2006) 18 (1): 209–246.
Published: 01 January 2006
... crime reporting: Is South Africa's crime wave a statistical illusion? SA Crime Quarterly 1 : 7 -10. ———. 2003 . The facts behind the figures: Crime statistics 2002–3. SA Crime Quarterly 6 : 1 -6. ———. 2004a . What's up in the Cape? Crime rates in Western and Northern Cape Provinces. SA...
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Published: 01 September 2020
Figures 3 and 4 Pages from the Aalaw calendar, predominantly featuring adult male figures from the Kashmiri resistance. The figures above include “militants from yesteryear” such as JKLF cofounder Maqbool Bhat, as well as more recent figures such as Afzal Guru and Burhan Wani.
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (3): 509–526.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Sébastien Chauvin; Yannick Coenders; Timo Koren The accusation that Black Pete—the blackface character at the center of the annual Sinterklaas festival—is a racist caricature has recently become a staple of the Dutch culture wars, leaving media and cultural producers in a quandary over the figure’s...
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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 (2010) 22 (1): 33–65.
Published: 01 January 2010
... or dueling national claims to Israel/Palestine, exerts enormous existential pressure. This essay draws on an eclectic but substantial number of poems composed by canonical contemporary figures such as Nizār Qabbānī, Adonis, and Mahmoud Darwish to demonstrate how Arab poets strategically (even routinely...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (3): 557–581.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Rita Chin A striking aspect of contemporary European debates about immigrants is the focus on the Muslim woman as the key figure through which objections to Islamic cultural difference have been articulated. This article traces how sexual politics became central to German public debates about guest...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (2 (82)): 235–260.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Kaiama L. Glover This essay looks pointedly at a broad phenomenon wherein ostensibly benign discourses—from the news media to the Hollywood film industry to humanitarian aid—grant permission for North Atlantic denial of human proximity to peoples of the so-called global South. Taking the figure...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (2 (82)): 287–309.
Published: 01 May 2017
... campaigning. This article assesses some of the different ways that orcas are being “followed” today, showing how the figure of the celebrity orca offers an opportunity to reflect both on the performative nature of celebrity and on the continuing human exploitation of performing animals, which is tied...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (3 (80)): 457–473.
Published: 01 September 2016
... hypervisible in the European public sphere. The article starts by tracing the roles of visibility and invisibility in constituting the “ideal refugee” (and the concomitant figure of the “a-refugee”), before turning to refugee-refugee humanitarianism as an invisible form of Southern-led (rather than Northern...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (1 (99)): 21–41.
Published: 01 January 2023
... Dalit figure B. R. Ambedkar was an important reference point. His moves and strategies were reported in the African American press and intellectuals and leaders drew inspiration from his works. It is through Ambedkar that archives of Dalit-Black struggles were built, and in recent years Ambedkar has...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (2 (97)): 195–217.
Published: 01 May 2022
..., but that it stakes a claim for the ethical virtue of exposure and vulnerability. That these viral commonwealths apprehend not exactly Covid itself, but the risk of infection, as a figure for the historicity of Blackness under the necropolitics of medical apartheid and social death. In order to stage...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 301–317.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Charis Thompson Abstract The World Health Organization (WHO), the body charged with implementing global pandemic response, figured heavily in the Republican and Democratic campaigns of the 2020 US presidential election. The contrast was stark: Donald Trump drew on and ramped up dissatisfaction...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (1): 9–19.
Published: 01 January 2009
... of the elections: ethnically targeted state repression, targeting of local ethnic proxies for national political figures, ethnic vigilantism, opportunistic criminal violence, and ethnic cleansing by Kalenjin ethnonationalists. The essay also argues that while there are good prospects for reconciliation, Kalenjin...
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (3 68): 509–534.
Published: 01 September 2012
... and audacity of this Olympian fantasy world helped draw nobles into the new “figured world” of French empire, but equating France with Rome also legitimated state activism, allowing the balance of power in France to tip away from the nobility and toward the king and state. Copyright 2012 by Duke University...
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (3 68): 601–622.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Paul Crosthwaite; Peter Knight; Nicky Marsh This curation project explores visual representations of financial markets. Focusing on phases of upheaval in transatlantic finance extending back to the early eighteenth century, it traces a recurrent interplay among figuration, abstraction, and allegory...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (2 (73)): 233–255.
Published: 01 May 2014
... form of figuring reality reduces ecological complexities, interactions, fluidity, and biodiversity into two general forms or ideas of “environment”: the idea of an untouched and pristine wilderness and the idea of an environmental struggle waged by indigenous peoples comprehended as victims...
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