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Mapping and Forgetting: Cartography, National Imaginaries, and Personal Archives
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Public Culture (2024) 36 (3 (104)): 329–360.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Beatriz Jaguaribe Abstract Centered on the mapping of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, this essay explores the relations between cartography, national imaginaries, and personal archives. Undertaken in 1917 by the Rondon Commission during the period of the First Republic (1889 – 1930), the making...
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Stranger Anxiety: Failed Legal Equivalences and the Challenges of Intimate Recognition in Taiwan
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (3 (83)): 433–455.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Sara L. Friedman This article examines the power of law to constitute which intimacies are deemed legitimate for a larger project of national reproduction. It focuses on two contested marriage cases in Taiwan that involved a transnational union and a transgender marriage. The article introduces...
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Port Cities, Creative Cities
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Public Culture (2024) 36 (3 (104)): 313–328.
Published: 01 September 2024
..., and creativity. Crossing both axes, water is a key force, as metaphor, energy, and threat. Second, port cities are typically exceptional to the nations to which they pertain, frequently occupying the status of a “minor” city in any given national or regional imaginary, even while part of colonial...
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Aboriginal Media and the Australian Imaginary
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Public Culture (1993) 5 (3): 557–578.
Published: 01 September 1993
.... in Cultural Studies. New York: Routledge. Hamilton , Annette . 1990 . “Fear and Desire: Aborigines, Asians, and the National Imaginary.” Australian Cultural History 9 : 14 -35. Lacan , Jacques . 1967 . Ecrits . New York: Norton. Langton , Marcia . 1992 . “Well, I Saw...
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Editor's Note
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Public Culture (2004) 16 (3): ix–x.
Published: 01 September 2004
...—the national imaginaries of enemy and friend
imposed by the state, for example in the 1917 Trading with the Enemies Act that
the IEEPA amends. Issues like this one expose the bad faith, and simple untruth,
of this national discipline when...
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Call for Contributions
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Public Culture (2004) 16 (3): xi–xiii.
Published: 01 September 2004
...—the national imaginaries of enemy and friend
imposed by the state, for example in the 1917 Trading with the Enemies Act that
the IEEPA amends. Issues like this one expose the bad faith, and simple untruth,
of this national discipline when...
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Uneasy Solidarities: Nations, Nodes, and Expulsions
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Public Culture (2024) 36 (3 (104)): 303–311.
Published: 01 September 2024
... and Forgetting: Cartography, National Imaginaries, and Personal Archives,” by Brazilian cultural historian Beatriz Jaguaribe, explores geography and cartography as tools. She argues that they are not only tools of state expansion but also cultural artifacts that archive and project a particular imaginary...
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Public Culture (2003) 15 (3): 385–398.
Published: 01 September 2003
...-making and
peoplehood, an enduring theme in critical political theories and the allied demo-
cratic social imaginaries. More specifically, the essays focus on material tech-
nologies of public speaking and communication—ranging from how the trans-
parency of a national language in Indonesia can create...
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Moral Geographies and the Ethics of Post-Sovereignty
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Public Culture (1994) 6 (3): 479–502.
Published: 01 September 1994
...
that could be possessed if their contributions were countenanced within the pre-
vailing national imaginaries.
To situate the narrativized forms of forgetfulness in the present, then, one
has to return to their points of emergence, to the moral...
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Provincializing France?
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 85–119.
Published: 01 January 2011
... Smouts, ed., La
situation postcoloniale: Les “postcolonial studies” dans le débat français (Paris: Presses de la
Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, 2007).
5. An exception is Mamadou Diouf, L’historiographie indienne en débat: Colonialisme, nation-
alisme et sociétés postcoloniales...
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Books Received
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (3 68): 643–646.
Published: 01 September 2012
....
Guidotti-Hernández, Nicole M. 2011. Unspeakable Violence: Remapping U.S.
and Mexican National Imaginaries. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.
Hajjat, Abdellali. 2012. Les frontières de “l‘identité nationale”: L’injonction...
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Prehistories of Globalization: Circassian Identity in Motion
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Public Culture (2000) 12 (1): 177–204.
Published: 01 January 2000
... ‘globalization from below’” (1997, 276). This is
true only if they do not replicate modernist fascinations with the order of things,
and do not become as totalitarian as the national imaginary, simply silencing dif-
ferent voices along their way. If the notion of prehistory is to be deployed to
reveal...
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Beyond Good and Evil, Whither Liberal Sacrificial Love?
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (1): 77–100.
Published: 01 January 2009
...: “Is
the sacrifice worth it? It is if we establish a specific relationship between violence
and redemption that will define the social imaginary of suffering and dying.” If
we can do so, killing and dying will be understood and experienced as a mode of
12. “President Addresses Nation, Discusses Iraq, War...
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Patriotism and Its Futures
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Public Culture (1993) 5 (3): 411–429.
Published: 01 September 1993
... conjunctures concerning reading and publicity, texts and their
linguistic mediations, nations and their narratives are only now being juxtaposed
to formulate the special and specific diacritics of the national imaginary and its
public spheres (Lee...
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Jews, Jesus, and the Problem of Postcolonial French Identity
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (3 (83)): 457–480.
Published: 01 September 2017
... “positive role” in its former overseas colonies, particularly North Africa, thus reinforcing the presumption that “France” was isomorphic with white, ostensibly Christian, colonizers (Loi n2005-158 23 fevrier 2005 Reconnaissance de la Nation et contribution nationale en faveur des Français rapatriés [Law...
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 January 2002
... by Michael Holquist and translated by Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Austin: University of Texas Press. Calhoun, Craig. 1997 . Nationalism . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Castoriadis, Cornelius. 1987 . The imaginary institution of society , translated by Kathleen Blamey...
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The Diasporic Imaginary
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (2): 411–428.
Published: 01 May 2002
.... 1995 . Nation and migration: The politics of space in the South Asian diaspora .Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. The Diasporic Imaginary
Brian Keith Axel
Violence...
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Cultures of Circulation and the Urban Imaginary: Miami as Example and Exemplar
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Public Culture (2005) 17 (1): 153–180.
Published: 01 January 2005
... familiar imaginary of which
is the nation (its objective moment) and nationness (its subjective moment). In
the approach advanced here, the social imaginary—in the case at hand, the urban
imaginary—is the surface form, the necessary ideological appearance, of a real-
ity constituted in and through...
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Post-grid Imaginaries: Electricity, Generators, and the Future of Energy
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (2 (97)): 265–290.
Published: 01 May 2022
... to shape a new social order. The grid imaginary connected twentieth-century modernization theories of technological expansion with interconnection in nation-states, a process that accelerated around the world (Adalet 2018 ). But if we bring together decentralized electricity infrastructures as I do...
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Mobilizing Fictions: The Gulf War, the Media and the Recruitment of the Spectator
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Public Culture (1992) 4 (2): 101–126.
Published: 01 May 1992
... in the cross hairs of a
gun - epitomized this mechanism. An act declared by Congress to be ille-
gal - the deliberate targeting of foreign heads of state - was vividly
mapped across the national imaginary. Instead of “Was this war necessary?’
the question became “Why are we not targeting Hussein?” Thus...
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