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Banana Brokers: Communicative Labor, Translocal Translation, and Transnational Law
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (1): 69–92.
Published: 01 January 2019
... so, this essay illuminates the often unrecognized differences in communicative labor that constitute contemporary forms of global legality. The resistance network that developed to contest the Super Banana offers a marked contrast to the norms and forms of translation practiced by the Gates...
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The Intimacy of Labor: Street Sweeping and the Pleasures of Anything Else
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (2 (100)): 233–254.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Elana Resnick Abstract This essay rethinks writing on “intimate labor” to ethnographically explore the intimacy of labor by attending to how Romani women waste workers in Bulgaria assert workplace friendships to lay claim to public space and cultivate life‐sustaining solidarities. Under conditions...
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Published: 01 May 2021
figure 3 Everyday labor at a China Mall. Image courtesy of Mark Lewis.
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Figure 14 Cover and reverse from Labor and Art ( Kar va Honar ), 1980. Personal collection of authors.
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Posing in Prison: Family Photographs, Emotional Labor, and Carceral Intimacy
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (3 (77)): 487–511.
Published: 01 September 2015
... Expression .” Afterimage 24 , no. 3 : 1 – 2 . This essay considers how vernacular photography that takes place in prisons circulates as practices of intimacy and attachment between imprisoned people and their loved ones, by articulating the emotional labor performed to maintain these connections. I...
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Figure 9 Hollywood Trucks index film labor. Photograph by Vicki Mayer
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On the Road: Labor, Ethnicity and the New “New German Cinema” in the Age of the Multinational
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Public Culture (1989) 2 (1): 20–30.
Published: 01 January 1989
...Katie Trumpener Copyright © 1989-90 by Duke University Press 1989 On the Road:
Labor, Ethnicity and the New "New German
Cinema" in the Age of the Multinational
Katie Trumpener
Department of German
The University of Chicago
In West Germany today, national self...
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One of the slave labor survivors in his 80s emerged out of a dark room that...
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Figure 12 One of the slave labor survivors in his 80s emerged out of a dark room that resembled a cave when I visited him on the outskirts of Beijing in July 2008, a city getting ready for the Olympics. His living conditions on the margins of Chinese society already well on the path to becoming
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The Mitsubishi slave labor victim group in Shandong Province convened to di...
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Figure 14 The Mitsubishi slave labor victim group in Shandong Province convened to discuss strategies for reaching a settlement with the corporation. The Chinese authorities are anxious about victim movements and send “informants” to victim organization meetings to monitor their activities
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One of the last slave labor survivors at the victim meeting. As time passes...
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Figure 15 One of the last slave labor survivors at the victim meeting. As time passes, most of the Chinese participants in the redress movement shifted to the second and third generations. Photo by author, Shandong 2013.
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Looking at Film Hoardings: Labour, Gender, Subjectivity and Everyday Life in India
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Public Culture (1991) 4 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 January 1991
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Detail from figure 2, Group 57 workshop interior and matching image from At...
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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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Neo-homesteading: Domestic Production and the Limits of the Postwage Imagination
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (3 (92)): 465–490.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Alison Shonkwiler This essay examines the growing interest in home-based labor in light of the changing structures of conventional work. Neo-homesteading, particularly in its part-time and casual modes, reveals the conflicted middle-class desire to achieve freedom from the wage economy without...
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The Chinese Century and the City of Gold: Rethinking Race and Capitalism
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (2 (94)): 193–217.
Published: 01 May 2021
...figure 3 Everyday labor at a China Mall. Image courtesy of Mark Lewis. ...
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The Social Life of Terror Capitalism Technologies in Northwest China
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (2 (97)): 167–193.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Darren Byler Abstract This article examines the digital enclosure of Muslim minority data and labor through a techno-political “reeducation” system in Northwest China to make a broader argument about the way surveillance capitalism can be linked to ethno-racialization. Specifically, it considers...
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Moving Rape: Trafficking in the Violence of Postliberalization
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 331–359.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Sareeta Amrute This article discusses violence against women in cars in India, including the recent high-profile Delhi rape case, arguing that these cases should be set in the context of economic liberalization. The dynamic between women and their drivers should be understood as a labor...
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Restless Reconciliation: Unsettling Victimhood and Perpetration
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Public Culture (2025) 37 (1 (105)): 101–134.
Published: 01 January 2025
...Figure 12 One of the slave labor survivors in his 80s emerged out of a dark room that resembled a cave when I visited him on the outskirts of Beijing in July 2008, a city getting ready for the Olympics. His living conditions on the margins of Chinese society already well on the path to becoming...
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Figure 11 Chinese victims and Japanese activists paid an emotional visit to the communal grave of the lead Japanese lawyer, who led the victim group to the first slave labor settlement in 2000 with the implicated Japanese corporation, Kajima Construction. Photo by author, Tokyo 2018.
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Profits and Predation in the Human Bioeconomy
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (3): 413–439.
Published: 01 September 2018
... this business as a “bioeconomy” to highlight how migration controls (sometimes framed in the idiom of care) facilitate profiteering and predation. Rather than focusing on the production of cheap, deportable labor, the bioeconomy perspective developed here is concerned with the extraction and generation...
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“It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp... with... a Whole Lot of Bitches Jumpin' Ship”: Navigating Black Politics in the Wake of Katrina
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (2): 343–376.
Published: 01 May 2009
... and exploring the spellbinding power of masculine leadership in Hustle and Flow , where the labor of an entire household is required to produce a male rapper as an icon of fame whose lyrical talent propels him into the spotlight. I consider these two episodes against the political backdrop of 2005–6, defined...
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