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Public Culture (2017) 29 (3 (83)): 433–455.
Published: 01 September 2017
... the concept of “stranger anxiety” to underscore the legal and bureaucratic work necessary to constitute heterosexual marriage as the basis for citizenship inclusion. Working from these two cases, the article analyzes how the Taiwanese government produces an equivalence between heterosexual unions...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 431–441.
Published: 01 September 2023
... law nor private right, concessions are a unique legal form designed to produce nonsystematic and exceptional legal spaces that remain central to capitalist societies today. [email protected] Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Freely available online through the Public Culture open...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (1): 173–196.
Published: 01 January 2019
... de Kirchner, unleashed a storm of accusations and counteraccusations, political speculation, rumors, and legal battles. In this article, I explore the multifold processes of truth-making around this event. In proposing the term “moral economy of truth,” I signal how understandings of truth serve...
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Figure 4 A protest against eviction-and-demolition remixes outmoded Maoist “redness” with appeals to “the law” in Fuzhou, China, 2011. The Chinese characters echo the social resonance in making a big noisy scene: “The People's Voice Voice Voice / A Legal Matter Matter Matter.”
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (1 (69)): 115–141.
Published: 01 January 2013
... to hydrate their communities. Such demonization is paralleled by legal crackdowns and the deliberate destruction of improvised water infrastructure. The essay uses the Mumbai case study to reveal the costs of marginalizing the majority urban poor in global megacities: in public health, death rates...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 269–274.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Faisal Devji Unlike the pacifists and humanitarians with whom he is routinely associated, Gandhi was critical of human rights as a legal and political project. Indeed, he attributed modern violence precisely to the fact that life had become an absolute value, something that could therefore...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 471–480.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Ritu Birla Gandhi's thematics of addiction mark him as acutely present in his time, even as they launch his temporal performativity. Publicized via transnational debates on the legality of opium and anxieties about the market as casino, the problem of addiction reflected the circulation of 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. Ethnographic studies of human rights law reveal how global elites translate “down” from the international institutions that produce legal categories as well...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (3): 539–561.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Didier Fassin; Shamus Khan; Madiha Tahir Against the normative definition of punishment as the infliction of pain on an offender by an appropriate legal authority, this essay argues that the police, although they are not entitled to administer retribution, commonly do so on the street...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (2 (91)): 327–348.
Published: 01 May 2020
... of the 235,000 murders created by the “war on drugs” since 2006 is that the deaths consist of “narcos killing each other off.” However, as a result of the profound interlocking of legal and illegal sectors, most forms of livelihood in the borderlands are potentially implicated in the drug economy. Therefore...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (1 (93)): 89–111.
Published: 01 January 2021
... is the larger aspiration. But given practical limitations, this means scaling down to select terms and cases that signal translational injustice under conditions of violence and legal disputation. These conditions include gender violence and sexual safety across languages, the untranslatability of terms like...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 385–392.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Irene Peano Abstract This essay explores the author's engaged research trajectory into several agro-industrial enclaves in contemporary Italy. Stemming from solidarity work in support of migrant laborers living in slums and camps, and of their demands for legal recognition and better living...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 375–384.
Published: 01 September 2022
... legality, sited in the peripheral margins and shadows of the central city of Cape Town. They operate across grammars of transaction and care. An architectural reading of black markets enables a drawing out and stitching together of the constituents of these sites: of site and story, of domesticity...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 419–436.
Published: 01 September 2022
... disappeared, and memories of locations vanished as descendants passed away. In the absence of buildings and legally recognized borders, intangible heritage—stories, ephemeral traditions—define a sense of place. Betraying the perception that these places have disappeared, founders’ descendants express...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (2 (100)): 207–231.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of slavery and anti‐Blackness have not yet been acknowledged, much less repaired, within or beyond the US legal system. 31. Decision at 26. 32. Decision at 14. 33. A similar extrajudicial point occurs in Dobbs v. Jackson (2022), in which the conservative, formalist court gestures toward...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (3 (80)): 617–653.
Published: 01 September 2016
... of which continues to erode the possibility of equal citizenship. The article demonstrates how the systematic confiscation of Armenian property is normalized in everyday discourse and politics in Turkey in the service of the broader legal governance of minority difference. 6 For an earlier, nuanced...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (1): 185–213.
Published: 01 January 2020
... were required to furnish a photograph of themselves dressed in swimwear. Taking its cue from this historic example, this study traces the evolution of a phenomenon the author describes as state-incriminating, coproduced archives, visual archives that are coproduced by representatives of the legal...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (1): 133–162.
Published: 01 January 2020
... the source of death is diffuse and leaky. The Indian judiciary has taken up this question in earnest, dispersing the legal treatment of life away from its historical focus on individuated life-beings and toward a more atmospheric domain of biological abstractions and vital circulations: aggregate lung...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (1 (78)): 23–62.
Published: 01 January 2016
... probe the key differences between the Jim Crow racial order and the racial terrain of the current period and come to the conclusion that both claims are inadequate because they are tied to a sanitized and restricted understanding of Jim Crow as a set of legal and state institutions and policies...
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Public Culture (2005) 17 (3): 417–444.
Published: 01 September 2005
... travel writing, legal discourses, and modern Egyptian literature. He also serves on the editorial committee of Middle East Report . Anxious Advocacy: The Novel,
the Law, and Extrajudicial
Appeals in Egypt...
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