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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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Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 177–189.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Marnia Lazreg This essay analyzes the pitfalls of the adoption of postcolonial studies by French colonial historians and traces their roots to a deep-seated identity investment in the colonial empire, especially Algeria. It examines French colonial historiography's elision of racism as a willed...
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The Return of the Native: Postcolonial Smoke Screen and the French Postcolonial Politics of Identity
Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 201–215.
Published: 01 January 2011
....” While all three authors agree on the view that postcolonial studies have eventually taken root in France, allusive or absent are references to anglophone postcolonial studies in French scholarship credited to carrying the postcolonial torch, and the boundaries of postcolonial studies remain elusive...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (3 (83)): 457–480.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Kimberly A. Arkin In 2004 a French Jewish student union ran an ad against anti-Semitism using defaced images of Jesus and Mary. Denounced by an antiracist organization affiliated with Jewish interests, the ad was immediately pulled. Why? While the union intended the campaign to be provocative...
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Published: 01 May 2017
Figure 1 Traffic sign hacking by French artist Clet Abraham in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin. Photograph by Virág Molnár
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 55–84.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Jean-François Bayart It is misguided to imagine that French researchers and French universities are unaware of postcolonial studies. In reality, forms close to this school of thought emerged very early in the French university context, but they were obliged to take other academic traditions...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Janet Roitman Over the past years, France has been rocked not only by violent demonstrations in the banlieues (city outskirts) but also by raging debates regarding the place of “postcolonial studies” in the French archive and in current scholarship. The dispute over postcolonial studies...
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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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Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 261–273.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Mayanthi L. Fernando The politics of recognition remains a common way to articulate and adjudicate minorities’ claims, yet, as a number of scholars have argued, calling on the state for redress serves to secure the state’s sovereignty. Drawing on Muslim French activism in France, the author...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 39–46.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Sylvie Tissot Six years after banning pupils from wearing a hijab in public high schools, in July 2010, French deputies passed a law that forbids women from wearing the “integral veil” (or niqab , an outfit hiding the entire face except the eyes) in public spaces. This article examines why...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 121–156.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Ann Laura Stoler If the Republic and Empire are now difficult to view as mutually exclusive categories in contemporary France, few scholars have sought to address the conventions of knowledge production that have made France's own history of a racialized polity so rarely a subject for the French...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 217–231.
Published: 01 January 2011
... layers of the postcolonial argument unfolding within a group of French scholars. At the heart of the postcolonial debate are the very definitions of the “social sciences” and “humanities” and the remapping of the knowledge they contain and produce. These repeated disjunctions among enunciative spaces...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (3 (74)): 559–577.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Vanessa R. Schwartz In this interview Lynn Hunt discusses why she studied the French Revolution, how she used images in her research, and why she cares about psychology. She also reflects on issues of affirmative action, intellectual style, and her recent retirement. 2014 Vanessa R. Schwartz...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (2 (97)): 243–264.
Published: 01 May 2022
... to a conference held at the Ethnological Museum in Berlin in 2018; and disturbs Emmanuel Macron's 2017 speech at the University of Ouagadougou and the 2018 French presidential report on restitution. It shows how provenance exhibits epistemicide as it restitutes “looted” art to colonial beneficiaries, and how...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 289–300.
Published: 01 September 2023
... can be read as a statization of life, combining the power of both science and the state. The authors explore the social conditions of the production and dissemination of mortality data in French nursing homes in a period of strong uncertainty. The web of interactions between agencies of public health...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (1): 101–140.
Published: 01 January 2009
... engagements with the complex problem of freedom. It suggests that they can be grasped as such only if we recognize that Césaire's 1946 program to transform Antillean colonies into French departments and his subsequent attempt to reconstitute France as a federal republic were mediated by the spirits...
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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 (2011) 23 (1): 85–119.
Published: 01 January 2011
...), and cultural narcissism and conceit have all contributed to the
marginal position of France in these global ventures of thought. Until recently,
postcolonial studies has been disparaged or, at best, overlooked in French scholar-
ship. Is this cavalier indifference or plain ignorance masking for insolence...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (3): 507–529.
Published: 01 September 2010
... thus defines the borders of Europe while embodying national identities in France, in the Netherlands, and elsewhere. Copyright 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 All translations from the French in this article are mine. National Identities and Transnational...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 191–199.
Published: 01 January 2011
... translations from the French are by the author. Racial France, or the Melancholic
Alterity of Postcolonial Studies
Ranjana Khanna
A certain amount of anxiety seems to dominate all the
essays in this special issue. Jean...
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