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Public Culture (2019) 31 (1): 93–116.
Published: 01 January 2019
... of “Eastern music” on the Crimean peninsula, Radio Meydan generated a new virtual space in which latent competing liminal sovereign imaginaries of Crimea, situated within the upheavals of Ukrainian instability and Russian aggression, were produced and negotiated. Through attention to the aural sphere...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (3 (83)): 415–417.
Published: 01 September 2017
.... It is these contested goals that lead Zandbergen to consider the liminal status of the Air Quality Egg project, owing to its co-optation and commodification by corporate interests, as well as its inability to deliver on the group’s scientific ambitions. But rather than theorize the project as a failure, Zandbergen...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (3 (83)): 515–538.
Published: 01 September 2017
... the assumptions of liminality, and subsequent temporal linearity, that are attached to the experiences of refugees. As Helen’s comments recounted above suggest, the displacement of refugees cannot be exclusively confined to liminal times and spaces of politico-legal ambiguity and sociospatial exclusion. What...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (3 (83)): 539–562.
Published: 01 September 2017
... of transformational possibility, detached from the networks, roles, and institutions of daily life. Copyright © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 air quality monitoring co-creation liminality open source smart city politics Cans of Coke, bottles of beer, coffee cups, and empty pizza boxes are scattered...
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Public Culture (2024) 36 (1 (102)): 119–143.
Published: 01 January 2024
... sacropolitics as the emergent mode of doing politics in the age of mass extinction from our location within anthropological investigations of crisis and liminality. Nowhere are these issues more insightfully explored than in Victor Turner's classic work on the concept of liminality, as laid out in his...
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Public Culture (2003) 15 (1): 187–190.
Published: 01 January 2003
... A. Wilson. 2002 . Trauma,liminality, and symbolic closure: The legacy of political violence in South Africa. In Memory in ethnic conflict , edited by Ed Cairns. Basingstoke, England: Palgrave. Ignatieff, Michael. 2001 . Introduction. In Truth and lies: Stories from the Truth and Reconciliation...
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Public Culture (2001) 13 (3): 399–428.
Published: 01 September 2001
... a
living person or a corpse, a human being or a sculpture, it is installed in the series
because the image is “simultaneously real and surreal, both here and not here.”17
In this sense, these images pertain to various liminal stages—transitional phases
in a “rite...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2013) 25 (3 (71)): 559–573.
Published: 01 September 2013
... engagement and hermeneutics. The difficulty for me was that I had already done my fieldwork and made my analysis and found nothing of the sort he spoke about. At the same time, I thought that not finding anything much like liminality and its phenomena was itself interesting. When I reread Turner today I...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (2 (100)): 191–206.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., to the camaraderie that comes from being in on the joke. More generally, however, the workings of irony can also evoke a sense of vital potential. Poised between avowal and disavowal, between a commitment to available ideas and structures and their refusal, irony opens a liminal space. This space is suffused...
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Public Culture (2005) 17 (3): 339–370.
Published: 01 September 2005
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to journalists are intended to exercise influence; that is, they can be technically
defined as bribes, criminalized in the giving and the taking. As a form of cor-
ruption, bribery operates in a liminal space of sociality between public and pri...
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Public Culture (2003) 15 (1): 90–102.
Published: 01 January 2003
..., as if the
ship’s organs had been everted to make arteries and tendons visible. The heli-
copter’s fleet ductility matches well with battlefield chaos, or what Carl von Clause-
witz (1989: 119) famously called the friction of war. It is liminal technology...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (2 (91)): 327–348.
Published: 01 May 2020
... forming entangled and deeply corrupt alliances. The impunity implied by these drug war discourses also creates a deeply fraught atmosphere for local people who experience firsthand the liminality, uncertainty, and contradictions inherent in current drug war policies. In this article, I explore...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (1): 173–196.
Published: 01 January 2019
... and speculation? Why was it such a powerful media event? Not all newsworthy events garner such attention, and not all deaths become irruptive moments in the social fabric. I see several possible, not mutually exclusive explanations. The one I have been arguing here is that the case served as a liminal event...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (1 (96)): 9–19.
Published: 01 January 2022
... visage but has not ceased.” Patočka captured the cultural fracturing and liminality of the militarized front line through the experiential and normative perimeters of “the solidarity of the shaken” emerging from the anarchy of European battlefronts. “The upheaval by the front line...
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Public Culture (2007) 19 (3): 461–482.
Published: 01 September 2007
... existential threats.
There is a pseudo-liminal quality to the security check as a switching point:
participants are spatially separated, if only by the body of the guard, from their
prior social settings and judged to be in transit to a new status of approved civic
and national trustworthiness...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (1): 35–59.
Published: 01 January 2018
.... On the other hand, it attacks humans (and their companion species) as kin would not. However, we should also note how the partiality of affective traces explains the strangeness and the liminal status of the runa puma . They point toward ways of affecting and being affected that remain for the most part...
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Public Culture (1994) 6 (2): 365–381.
Published: 01 May 1994
... moment.
The questions posed above map out a set of trajectories into the density of
this image, a density which, I would stress, is linked intimately to the liminal
position of Asian-Americans in the United States. This photograph "documents"
a crucial, interstitial elemmt...
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Public Culture (1992) 5 (1): 47–55.
Published: 01 January 1992
...: a “normative” postcoloniality, gen-
erally nationalist in temper and affirmative of local traditions, and a
“disavowing,” “interstitial” or “liminal” postcoloniality, which in orienta-
tion is “hybrid” and “cosmopolitan” and “calls into question competing,
polarized claims of center and margin...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (3 (83)): 457–480.
Published: 01 September 2017
... and elsewhere may require coming to terms with the continued (if transformed) liminality of European Jews. Instead of celebrating Jewish inclusion as a triumph of pluralism, I use the silenced UEJF ad to probe Jewish institutional anxieties about the conditions of that inclusion, anxieties that may in fact help...
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Public Culture (2003) 15 (2): 261–286.
Published: 01 May 2003
... secularization. Discussing
the works of Gabriel García Márquez and Salman Rushdie, Kumkum Sangari
speaks of this conception of time as “poised in a liminal space, which, having bro-
ken out of the binary opposition between circular and linear, gives a third space
and a different time the chance to emerge.”22...
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