...Claudio Lomnitz Copyright 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Editor’s Letter Claudio Lomnitz This issue of Public Culture is richly varied in content, with editorial pieces on the Colombian truth and reconciliation process...

...Eric Klinenberg; Fred Turner Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Editors’ Letter Eric Klinenberg and Fred Turner This issue goes to press at a moment of extreme economic volatility. While some Latin American nations...

... research, management, and planning. Such an approach, he maintains, would “not only increase the likelihood that such governance reforms will be accepted but also improve their design and implementation, and the quality of the underlying science as well.” I’m writing this letter in the midst of a major...

...Claudio Lomnitz Duke University Press 2008 Editor’s Letter Claudio Lomnitz This issue of Public Culture advances three of the Edi- torial Collective’s aspirations in its recent years of work: circulating important work...

...Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar Copyright 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Editor’s Letter: An Avalanche of Images Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar There is life, everyday life, in the cities of the late modern global...

...Ritu Birla; Faisal Devji Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Guest Editors’ Letter: Itineraries of Self-Rule­...

...Claudio Lomnitz Editor’s Letter Claudio Lomnitz Even the most casual news consumers are recurrently con- fronted with a perplexing mathematics and metaphysics of risk. In the United States, for instance, the Republican defeat...

...Claudio Lomnitz Duke University Press 2007 Editor’s letter Claudio Lomnitz Our current issue brings together a set of independently submitted essays. The essays by Paul Frosh and by Asef Bayat are arguments about the tension...

...Claudio Lomnitz Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 editor’s letter Editor’s Letter Claudio Lomnitz Politics takes surprising shapes, while history in preserv- ing...

...Claudio Lomnitz Copyright 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Editor’s Letter Claudio Lomnitz This issue concludes my five-year term as editor of Pub- lic Culture. During these years we have introduced a number of innovations...

...Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar Copyright 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Editor’s Letter: Whose Fears? Which Life? What Security? Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar These are difficult times, often characterized...

...Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar Copyright 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Editor’s Letter: Amid Violence Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar To judge from its first decade, the twenty-first century is no less violent than the twentieth...

... Letter Janet Roitman Over the past several 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...