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Steroids and the State: Dubin, Melodrama and the Accomplishment of Innocence

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John J. MacAloon
Public Culture (1990) 2 (2): 41–64.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2-2-41
Published: 01 May 1990
... Olympic 100-meters for men in the astonishing time of 9.79 seconds, breaking his own world record by 0.04 second.' The American Carl Lewis came second, and despite running faster than any human being but Johnson, Lewis was defeated by a remarkable 0.13 second. The special symbolic im- portance...
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Designing Urban Democracy: Mapping Scales of Urban Identity

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Ricky Burdett
Public Culture (2013) 25 (2 70): 349–367.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2020638
Published: 01 March 2013
... as an adviser on large- scale urban projects in London and other cities, including the London 2012 Olympics. 2. The intellectual “project” draws inspiration from Richard Sennett’s oeuvre as an urban soci- ologist and Saskia Sassen’s concept...
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Arena A Journal of Criticism and Discussion

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North Carlton, V. C. Australia
Public Culture (1989) 1 (2): 98–102.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1-2-98
Published: 01 May 1989
...- ish government, working to prepare its role as host of the 1992 Summer Olympics, re- cently initiated discussions with ETA, the Basque separatist movement. As a result of hosting the 1988 Olympics, the Republic of Korea successfully obtained economic and political relations with Warsaw Pact...
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The Meaning of Baseball in 1992 (With Notes on The Post-American)

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Bill Brown
Public Culture (1991) 4 (1): 43–69.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-4-1-43
Published: 01 January 1991
...Bill Brown Copyright © 1991 by the Center For Transnational Culture Studies 1991 THE NEWS FROM NOWHERE At the end of the twentieth century, the idea that sports mean some- thing sounds obvious indeed: the film clips of Jesse Owens at the Berlin Olympics, Sports Illustrated‘s...
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The Park Pass: Peopling and Civilizing a New Old Beijing

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Judith Farquhar
Public Culture (2009) 21 (3): 551–576.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2009-008
Published: 01 September 2009
... resistance to consumer regimes and acceptance of the broad national goals pos- ited by the socialist state. One of these goals, of course, has been the successful and creditable hosting of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Perhaps especially...
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The Amnesty International Concert Tour: Transnationalism As Cultural Commodity

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Deena Weinstein
Public Culture (1989) 1 (2): 60–65.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1-2-60
Published: 01 May 1989
... and amateur athletics have been fused in the Olympics, so capitalism and international humanitarianism were held in suspension in the Amnesty tour. In a money hungry world the promoters call the tune. Reebok, a hallmark of the world leisurewear/sportswear in- dustry, symbol of a transnational...
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Patriotism and Its Futures

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Arjun Appadurai
Public Culture (1993) 5 (3): 411–429.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-5-3-411
Published: 01 September 1993
..., Twenty Years Later.” Public Culture 5 ( 2 ): 179 -212. Hobsbawm , E. 1992 . “Ethnicity and Nationalism in Europe Today.” Anthropology Today 8 ( 1 ): 3 -8. Kang , S.-Y. , J. MacAloon, and R. DaMatta, eds. 1988 . The Olympics and Cultural Exchange . Seoul: Hanyang University...
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Atanarjuat and the Ideological Work of Contemporary Indigenous Filmmaking

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Monika Siebert
Public Culture (2006) 18 (3): 531–550.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2006-018
Published: 01 September 2006
... . London: Verso. VANOC (Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games). Vancouver 2010 emblems. www.vancouver2010.com/en/LookVancouver2010/Vancouver2010Emblems (accessed March 15, 2006). White, Jerry. 2005 . Frozen but always in motion: Arctic film, video...
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Settler Modernity and the Quest for an Indigenous Tradition

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Elizabeth A. Povinelli
Public Culture (1999) 11 (1): 19–48.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-11-1-19
Published: 01 January 1999
... on show in three year’s time at the Sydney Olympics. We won that bid because nations around the globe believed rightly our better instincts lead us to co-exist effectively with each other in a way in which a torn world finds inspirational.”16...
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Los Angeles, Asians, and Perverse Ventriloquisms: On the Functions of Asian America in the Recent American Imaginary

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David Palumbo-Liu
Public Culture (1994) 6 (2): 365–381.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-6-2-365
Published: 01 May 1994
... of the frame, peering through a set of blinds out a window. In the background of the Newsweek photograph, two red fire engines spray jets of water on a smolder- ing building; a street sign tells us this is Olympic Boulevard. Newsweek's caption...
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Editors' Comments

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Public Culture (1988) 1 (1): 1–4.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1-1-1
Published: 01 January 1988
... 3 cess; (c) elite forms provide the backdrop for mass movements, spectacles and ideologies, as in the case of the Olympics; and (d) mass forms, reap- propriated by elites, serve the functional purpose of (re)presenting the masses to themselves via the languages of the nation-state...
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One of the slave labor survivors in his 80s emerged out of a dark room that...

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Published: 01 January 2025
Figure 12 One of the slave labor survivors in his 80s emerged out of a dark room that resembled a cave when I visited him on the outskirts of Beijing in July 2008, a city getting ready for the Olympics. His living conditions on the margins of Chinese society already well on the path to becoming More
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Visualizing the Anthropocene

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Nicholas Mirzoeff
Public Culture (2014) 26 (2 (73)): 213–232.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2392039
Published: 01 May 2014
... for the occasional one-word entry in a diary (Mass Observation). Fog just came with London, in the way that smog was later associated with Los Angeles. Smog is not always anaesthetically invisible. When the Olympics were held in Beijing in 2008, there was tremendous concern in Western media and sports circles about...
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Death and History: An Emperor's Funeral

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Ako Nakano
Public Culture (1990) 2 (2): 33–40.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2-2-33
Published: 01 May 1990
...-Times: February 24, 1989. Death and History 35 Tokyo, the route passing monuments to recent Japanese history. It drives past the Diet Building, the seat of the postwar democratic legislature; the National Stadium where the 1964 Olympics were held, the event...
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Bodies of Digital Celebrity

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Sharrona Pearl, Dana Polan
Public Culture (2015) 27 (1 (75)): 185–192.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2798403
Published: 01 January 2015
... whatever visions he (or she) chose. Likewise with those in athletic competitions, whose history helps explain the current designation of “amateur” for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Olympics. Amateurism is (and in Victorian times was) valorized for not being about money...
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Historic Truths Looking at Earth

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John Martone
Public Culture (2002) 14 (3): 477–492.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-14-3-477
Published: 01 September 2002
...,” Nicholas Thomas (1991: 7) writes of such “entangled objects.” The Visa® card, boasting worldwide Olympic® partnership can be used at either museum...
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Network Members

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Public Culture (1988) 1 (1): 65–92.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1-1-65
Published: 01 January 1988
...: A Reappraisal With Special Reference to South India," In Gunther Sontheimer and Herman Kulke (Eds Hinduism Reconsidered. Heidelberg: South Asia Institute, 1988. FULLER, LINDA K. 499 Main St., Wilbraham, MA 01095, USA. RESEARCH INTERESTS: Women and the Olympics; mass communication...
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Books Received

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Public Culture (2003) 15 (2): 373–384.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-15-2-373
Published: 01 May 2003
... Gender and Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Nicaragua. Austin: University of Texas Press. Bass, Amy. 2002. Not the Triumph but the Struggle: The 1968 Olympics and the Making of the Black Athlete. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press...
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Delirious Cities and Their Cinema: On Koolhaas and Film Studies

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James Tweedie
Public Culture (2010) 22 (2): 369–397.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2009-032
Published: 01 May 2010
...” of the “people’s property” for CCTV headquarters 389 Public Culture Figure 12  Residents of the same building air grievances about displacement caused by Olympic construction...
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The Ambient Politics of Affective Computing

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Angela Xiao Wu
Public Culture (2022) 34 (1 (96)): 21–45.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9435427
Published: 01 January 2022
... to the 2009 “New Media Event” workshop organized by Hong Kong scholars, the former is well-known transnationally. The workshop hosted participants from mainland China and Taiwan, as well as Daniel Dayan, who had just edited a book on the Beijing Olympics as a media event. This alchemy of energy birthed...
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