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Public Culture (2006) 18 (3): 457–472.
Published: 01 September 2006
...João Biehl; Torben Eskerod Duke University Press 2006 p h o t o - e s s ay
Will to Live: AIDS Drugs and
Local Economies of Salvation
João Biehl...
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (2): 341–348.
Published: 01 May 2002
... in a workplace. Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique 8 : 531 -55. Am I the Only Survivor?
Global Capital, Local Gaze, and
Social Trauma in China
Pun Ngai
I don’t know how I...
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Public Culture (2001) 13 (2): 333–336.
Published: 01 May 2001
... over
the Last Decade, from the U.S. Constitution to Local Ordinances
Mary Anne Case
Constitutional Equal Protection In litigation concerning the admission of women
to the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), the school made much of the educational...
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Public Culture (2000) 12 (1): 205–206.
Published: 01 January 2000
... and has worked with battered sub-Saharan immigrant women in Paris. On the Predicament of the
Sign: The Modern African
Woman’s Claim to Locality
Fatu Kande Senghor
Fatu Kande Senghor is a writer
and photographer who is
currently Program Specialist for
the Cultural Program at the
Goree...
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Public Culture (1995) 8 (1): 127–158.
Published: 01 January 1995
... Puna . 1986 . Hawaii Review 20 . Bark , Ed. 1994 . “Isle ‘Byrds’ Worth a Look.” Honolulu Advertiser , 3 March. (Includes catalogue of television series set in Hawaii.). Bird , Jon , Barry Curtis, Tim Putman, George Robertson, and Lisa Ticker, eds. 1993 . Mapping the Futures: Local...
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Published: 01 May 2018
Figure 2 Libraries Without Borders (LWB) first initiated the BiblioTaptap project in 2011, following the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti in January of 2010. In 2015, LWB transitioned responsibility for the taptaps to local library organizations, and the taptaps continue to serve local
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (2): 403–430.
Published: 01 May 2009
... in the past decade, this article interrogates the modus operandi of the Andromeda Hill project and Palestinian resistance to it. Conceptualized as a neoliberal mode of ethnogentrification, this gated community attempts to achieve the impossible task of positioning itself both within and without local lived...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 417–430.
Published: 01 September 2023
... that embraces local vernaculars, the multiplicity of objectives, the responsibilities that come with producing persons, and the potential of instigating rather than circumventing political contestation. To clarify the stakes, it draws on the key evolutionary idea of niche construction, contrasting the thin...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 365–373.
Published: 01 September 2022
... of a local drug trafficking group to invade the empty rooms of the Nelson Mandela Occupation in downtown Rio de Janeiro, a common practice in the dispute for housing. However, suddenly there was a transformation in the logic of invasions. Rooms where single men lived became targets of dispute generating...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (1): 173–196.
Published: 01 January 2018
... examines how the Palestinian electro- dabke bands Ministry of Dub-Key and 47Soul perform rooted authenticity in conjunction with cosmopolitan aesthetics to appeal stylistically to both local and foreign audiences. Whereas Palestinian cultural performance has focused in the past on heroic struggle...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (3): 465–493.
Published: 01 September 2009
... States. They also show how Tijuana's documented public reproduces itself across a range of communicative genres and sites, from a newspaper poll, to face-to-face dialogue, to the local baseball stadium, to the port of entry itself. Copyright 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Versions...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (3): 465–485.
Published: 01 September 2010
... subjects vis-à-vis the construction of community and local expressions of citizenship. Copyright 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Foremost, I would like to thank my Alteño interlocutors and friends for engaging with me in the difficult task of doing research on civil (in)security in El Alto...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (3 (65)): 493–504.
Published: 01 September 2011
...—illuminate the tensions in the debate around whether to focus on the transnational movement of images, ideas, and public forms or on the local meanings of texts and representations. I would like to thank Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, Stephen Twilley, Plaegian Alexander, and Eric Klinenberg for reading a late...
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (2 (67)): 239–247.
Published: 01 May 2012
... as they extended control into culturally diverse regions. We draw attention to tensions between incorporation and differentiation, to strategies for managing local elites and other intermediaries, and to the competitions and conflicts among empires that shaped world history from antiquity until the present...
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (2 (67)): 249–259.
Published: 01 May 2012
... of this endeavor is the problem of cultural mediation through which the slippery notions of “us” and “them” or “friend” and “foe” are constructed and materialized. While such simulations of identity create effects of the real, they also elude definitive capture or specific localization. Beckett’s photographs...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (2 70): 249–260.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Harel Shapira This essay explores the ways residents in southern Arizona are experiencing and responding to the militarization of the United States – Mexico border. By focusing on the local level, the essay examines an emergent border politics that focuses neither on immigrants nor the economy...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (3 (80)): 499–517.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Megan Vaughan Does the spread of psychological counseling techniques in eastern Africa represent a “globalization” of the mind? This essay traces the genealogies of this phenomenon and points to the ways in which a set of imported techniques has been localized. 2016 Africa psy sciences...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 197–214.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Damani J. Partridge; Matthew Chin Drawing on insights and examples from scholars from around the world, this volume thinks through the effects of the transnational discourses and practices of “diversity” in local, nation-state-based, and global arenas. We begin with the Regents of University...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (3 (95)): 371–392.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., the sonic plays a privileged role in giving urban locales a specific feel as belonging to particular groups, investing this feel with an air of facticity that is largely immune to discursive critique. This article focuses on ritual performances and processions among Twelver Shi‘i Muslims during the Islamic...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (1 (96)): 71–98.
Published: 01 January 2022
... through Urdu poetry is one that is concerned not with the state, but with the constitution of the self through a network of thick relations to locality. The vision articulated by this alternate political theology — which draws on both long-standing Indo-Islamic traditions and the lived experience...
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