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Public Culture (2020) 32 (3 (92)): 513–538.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Henrietta L. Moore; Constance Smith In Kenya, the terms dotcom and digital have become popular descriptors for particular periods of change, as well as for modes of being. The two terms’ usage extends beyond reference to the age of the Internet or to encounters with new technologies. Rather...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (1): 9–19.
Published: 01 January 2009
...Adam Ashforth This essay anatomizes the postelection violence in Kenya in 2007 to identify the different forms of ethnic conflict so as to analyze their implications for the future stability of a democratic regime in the country. It argues that five types of ethnic conflict marked the aftermath...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (3 (80)): 499–517.
Published: 01 September 2016
... impression is that counseling in Kenya is predominantly a female occupation. That clearly raises larger issues of gender, method, and power. 16 I have anonymized the name. References Anderson Warwick Jenson Deborah Keller Richard C. eds. 2011 . Unconscious Dominions...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (3): 451–464.
Published: 01 September 2009
... two major al Qaeda attacks in Kenya, including the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy, but he has also become the object of fantastic speculation—the product of a psychology of fear combined with a popular imagination saturated with the layered syntax of the entertainment industry's imagery. Fazul's...
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Public Culture (2000) 12 (1): 43–50.
Published: 01 January 2000
...], the group designed chairs that were a vast improvement over the imported chairs upon which Filipinos with disabilities had previously depended. Since then, a network of wheelchair builders in developing countries has connected similar operations in Nicaragua, Mexico, Kenya, Zimbabwe, India...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (3 (92)): 449–452.
Published: 01 September 2020
... how deeply forms of identification and belonging depend upon personal loss. In “The Dotcom and the Digital: Time and Imagination in Kenya,” Henrietta L. Moore and Constance Smith think about the collective experiences during major transformations as filled with potentialities. These potentialities...
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (1 (66)): 157–184.
Published: 01 January 2012
..., and Development 1 , no. 1 : 59 – 79 . Lu Shijie . 2010 . What are people saying about the Peepoo? Acumen Fund (blog) , March 4 . community.acumenfund.org/forum/topics/what-are-people-saying-about?commentId=3957399%3AComment%3A24328 . Manna Energy . 2011 . Case study: Manna in Kenya...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (1): 1.
Published: 01 January 2009
... and on ethno­ nationalism in Kenya, a photo-documentary portfolio from Tibet, and essays on numerous topics that speak to one another in obliquely productive ways. I wish to highlight a few aspects of the collage before inviting the reader to engage with it. The essay by Gary Wilder was submitted...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (3): 623–624.
Published: 01 September 2009
..., San Diego. He is the author of Domesticating the World: African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization (2008). His current work addresses vio­ lence and the politicization of identity in Kenya. He is also writing on the inter­...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (1): 215–216.
Published: 01 January 2009
... in Kenya’s Rift Valley. William A. Callahan is professor of international politics and China studies at the University of Manchester and codirector of the British Inter-university China Center, Oxford. His most recent book is Cultural Governance and Resistance in Pacific Asia (2006). Sangji...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 375–384.
Published: 01 September 2022
... and violence within a contested urban realm. Importantly, however, while this market is located in a particular urban context, it is also intimately connected to the wider diaspora and described in relation to other Somali malls, notably in Kenya, Dubai, and the United States (Abdi 2015 ; Tayob 2021 , 2019...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (2): 399–401.
Published: 01 May 2010
... Controversy. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Uni- versity Press. McIntosh, Janet. 2009. The Edge of Islam: Power, Personhood, and Ethnoreli- gious Boundaries on the Kenya Coast. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. Melzer, Scott...
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Public Culture (2008) 20 (3): vi.
Published: 01 September 2008
...: Maria Victoria Uribe analyzes the process of transitional justice in Colombia today; Adam Ashforth examines Kalenjin ethnonationalism in the light of the recent postelection violence in Kenya; Michel Feher speculates about the contours of a neoliberal condition and the merits of embracing...
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Public Culture (1996) 8 (3): 539–566.
Published: 01 September 1996
...: Routledge. Merchant , Carolyn . 1990 . The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution . San Francisco: Harper and Row. Olindo , Perez . 1991 . “The Old Man of Nature Tourism: Kenya.” In Nature Tourism: Managing for the Environment , ed. T. Whelan. Washington: Island...
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Public Culture (1993) 5 (3): 621–625.
Published: 01 September 1993
..., Wole Soyinka from Nigeria, Ngugi wa Thiongo from Kenya. In his book Decolonising the Mind Ngugi wa Thiongo reveals the grim truth about the violence implicit in his study of English: the forced repetitions, the beatings, the deliberate shaming of those who...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 319–325.
Published: 01 September 2022
... on categorization as discrete spatial typology.” The opacity that can seem suspicious to outsiders turns out to be a vital infrastructure supporting diasporic relations between Somalia, Kenya, Dubai, Malawi, South Africa, and the United States. In “Battle for Housing and Mutual Witnessing,” Camila Pierobon...
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Public Culture (1992) 4 (2): 1–30.
Published: 01 May 1992
... of grandeur and prestige always entails an aspect of vulgarity and the baroque that the official order mes hard to hide,33 but which ordinary people bring to its at- tention - sometimes intentionally, often unwittingly. The following incident from Kenya shows how, in practice, the baroque can go...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 55–84.
Published: 01 January 2011
... “scaling” would have had heuristic value.32 Witness Moses I. Finley’s attempt to limit the concept to situations of non­native settlement dependent on a metropolis and engaging in coercive appropriation of land; by this standard, the partition of Africa was not colonial in nature, even if Kenya...
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Public Culture (2004) 16 (3): 481–497.
Published: 01 September 2004
..., Nyasaland; but also from further afield, countries like Tanganyika and Congo and Kenya. Some came looking for El Dorado. Most came because they were coerced, with the connivance of their colonial govern- ments, to supply the sweat of their labor in extracting the thin but lucrative seams of gold...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (2 (91)): 441–448.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., Vietnam, Kenya, and so on. ( Anderson 2012 ) The Cold War counterinsurgency unleashed in Indonesia and across Southeast Asia was one large-scale context that rendered IC possible. Like many other Undead texts, Anderson’s opened by noting its immediate worldly stimulus. It was the mournful...