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Public Culture (1992) 4 (2): 47–65.
Published: 01 May 1992
...Dipesh Chakrabarty Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 TttE: D€ATH W HISTORY? HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSN€SS AND Ttf€ CULTURE: Of LATE: CAflTAL1sM In some of his recent writings, Edward Said has described the historiographical effort embodied in the Indian...
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Public Culture (1990) 3 (1): 25–32.
Published: 01 January 1990
...Caren Kaplan Copyright © 1990 by the Center For Transnational Cultural Studies 1990 Reconfigurations of Geography and Historical Narrative: A Review Essay Caren Kaplan This is my home...
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (3): 611–615.
Published: 01 September 2002
... (2001) and (with Roxann Prazniak) Places and Politics in an Age of Globalization (2001). Historical Colonialism in Contemporary Perspective Arif Dirlik I offer here a few thoughts provoked by Achille Mbembe’s...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 431–441.
Published: 01 September 2023
... Anthropologist 107 , no. 3 : 377 – 82 . Fischer Peter . 1972 . “ Historic Aspects of International Concession Agreements .” In Studies in the History of the Laws of Nations , edited by Alexandrowicz C. H. , 222 – 61 . The Hague : Grotian Society Papers, M. Nijhoff . Fischer Peter...
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Published: 01 May 2016
Figure 1 One of Harold Fisk’s maps of the Mississippi River’s historical meandering, created in 1944 for the US Army Corps of Engineers. Retrieved June 5, 2015, from lmvmapping.erdc.usace.army.mil. More
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Public Culture (2008) 20 (1): 39–56.
Published: 01 January 2008
...Claudio Lomnitz Duke University Press 2008 Of Tiger's Leaps and Lullabies, and Historical Excess ...
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (3): 477–492.
Published: 01 September 2002
..., material culture, and colonialism in the Pacific . Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Historic Truths / Looking at Earth John Martone For my generation, the “conquest” of space and the war in Vietnam were twin...
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Public Culture (2003) 15 (1): 127–148.
Published: 01 January 2003
...: Historicity, Sacrifice, and the Spectacle of Debacle in Mexico City Claudio Lomnitz Idioms of Sacrifice in Mexico The cultural history of sacrifice in secular societies did not begin to be written...
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Published: 01 May 2022
figure 2. Hewlett-Packard garage in Palo Alto, California. The garage is a historic landmark designated as the “Birthplace of Silicon Valley” by the State of California Office of Historic Preservation. Courtesy of BrokenSphere/Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA license: creativecommons.org/licenses More
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Published: 01 September 2022
figure 9 A mural in an alleyway in Batn el Hawa that says “a common destiny, a singular identity” next to a depiction of a map of historic Palestine adorned with nationalist symbols. Photograph courtesy of author. More
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 419–436.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Andrea Roberts; Valentina Aduen; Jennifer Blanks; Schuyler Carter; Kendall Girault Abstract After Juneteenth, formerly enslaved African Americans in Texas founded hundreds of historic Black settlements known as freedom colonies. Later, freedom colonies’ populations dispersed, physical traces...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 January 2011
... be summarized as a theoretical form. Because postcolonial studies has produced compelling accounts of the epistemological bases for the production of difference and historical forms of regulation, its intellectual force lies in the constant postulation of alternative narratives and counter-histories...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 55–84.
Published: 01 January 2011
... into account. The contribution of postcolonial studies to an understanding of the historicity of societies that were colonized by their metropoles, and of the colonial legacies left behind, thus appears limited from the point of view of a historical sociology of politics inspired by Marx and Weber. Copyright...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (1 (96)): 99–121.
Published: 01 January 2022
...Sony Devabhaktuni; Joanna Mansbridge Abstract This article examines the 2019 Hong Kong protests from the perspective of urban space and the city's historical founding as a colonial entrepôt. Specifically, it explores how the protests destabilized both the urban fabric of the city and the political...
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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 (2024) 36 (2 (103)): 279–302.
Published: 01 May 2024
...P. Thirumal; Narmada P; Himabindu Chintakunta Abstract This study demonstrates how Brahminic embodiment provides a constraining milieu for the growth of technology in different historical and epistemic epochs. Brahmanic comportment allows for appropriating technology in a way that creates...
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Public Culture (2024) 36 (2 (103)): 153–179.
Published: 01 May 2024
... with artists and art historical research, the authors describe the artists’ workshop where they produced posters against the Shah, the United States, and imperialism. Their posters drew on the bold colors, clear text, symbolic imagery, and easy reproducibility of international radical poster art and the early...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (2): 199–220.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Yinon Cohen; Neve Gordon Using Israel’s land-grabbing practices alongside its demographic classifications as a conceptual lens, this article advances two claims: one about biospatial strategies, including the construction of space as a racialized category, and the other historical. The article...
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Public Culture (2025) 37 (1 (105)): 101–134.
Published: 01 January 2025
... on the ground defies the assumed model of redress, in which the story ends with the perpetrator acknowledging historical wrongs and making amends. On the contrary, such work comes to unsettle assumptions about where and how reconciliation takes place, who counts as victims, and whose needs are served...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (3): 367–392.
Published: 01 September 2018
... often become the domain of the religious right. The article asks how this has happened, and whether human rights—widely accused of a retreat into technicalities at the expense of intense conviction—has lost anything along the way. In doing so, the article treats conscience as a historically embedded...