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Public Culture (2002) 14 (3): 621–623.
Published: 01 September 2002
... and development with particular reference to the African Revolution . London:Heinemann. Keeping Africanity Open
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Achille Mbembe’s text (“African Modes of Self-Writing,” Public Culture 14
A [winter 2002]: 239–73) can...
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Published: 01 January 2024
Figure 16 Obafemi Awolowo University (formerly the University of Ife), Department of Administration, contemporary view of the open central mall. Photograph by the author.
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in The Cinematic Milieu: Technological Evolution, Digital Infrastructure, and Urban Space
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Published: 01 September 2021
figure 9 Rooftop viewing center, Lagos. This is a viewing center erected on top of a roof, with two sides enclosed using old PVC advertisements and the rest of the space open. Photograph by Brian Larkin.
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (1 (96)): 99–121.
Published: 01 January 2022
... with the still‐open question of the meanings and practices of democracy in Hong Kong. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Hong Kong agonistic democracy protests urban space ethnic minorities This essay originated in discussions about...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 333–357.
Published: 01 September 2022
... is it concretely actualized by an urban majority making often unanticipated, unformatted uses of the urban to engender livelihoods in a dynamic and open-ended process? This is the key question undertaken in this collectively written piece. This means thinking about work, paid and unpaid, in ways that highlight...
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (3 68): 457–464.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Andrew Lakoff This essay analyzes the evolving controversy over the recent experimental mutation of H5N1 avian influenza (bird flu) to make it more easily transmissible among mammals. While the controversy has been cast as a debate between bioscience and biosecurity, or between openness and secrecy...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 299–319.
Published: 01 May 2011
... explains some of the inconsistencies of his relation to ideas of the modern. In the long run, the doctrine of Hind Swaraj successfully positioned Gandhi as the most radical and national of Indian political leaders, while at the same time almost surreptitiously leaving the door open to pragmatic engagement...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (1 (72)): 3–11.
Published: 01 January 2014
...Cathy N. Davidson Cathy N. Davidson analyzes new directions in higher education in light of both online learning, peer-to-peer, and connectivist methods of learning and the topdown, hierarchical, centralized online education being promoted by massive open online courses (MOOCs) emanating from a few...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (3 (74)): 379–392.
Published: 01 September 2014
..., competition for resources and skilled labor between state and nongovernmental organizations, and a cultural conception of information as a resource to be privately possessed and exploited rather than open to public access. Stories of both failure and success in the libraries offer hints as to what...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (2): 305–327.
Published: 01 May 2018
..., practices, and memories. Contexts of economic and political precarity both produce the motivation for sponsoring bookmobiles and sharpen the contours of relationships between institutions, infrastructure, people, and texts. A critique of bookmobiles opens up two avenues of theoretical implications: first...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (2 (82)): 221–226.
Published: 01 May 2017
... experiencing exclusion from the gun community? In exploring Calvin’s untenable position, this essay opens up the ideological matrix of gun ownership and shows that understanding gun ownership means looking beyond the gun. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 guns identity politics race...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (3): 411–424.
Published: 01 September 2010
... shares with the war on terror is the idea that we ought to organize our political life around the quest for security and that we can even recover a sense of moral purpose through the response to (environmental) emergencies. Here too the aim seems to be to scare us into submission, rather than open up new...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (3 (83)): 515–538.
Published: 01 September 2017
... opens up new ways to think about control over time as a technique of sovereignty. References Agamben Giorgio . 1998 . Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life . Translated by Heller-Roazen Daniel . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . Agier Michel . 2002 . “ Between...
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (1 (66)): 9–45.
Published: 01 January 2012
... fell into civil war. Some critics wrongly conclude that academics should never work in countries with problematic political regimes. Analyzing the distinctive Libyan trajectory, this article stresses instead the need for careful organizational review, open debate, and clear emphasis on core academic...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (3 (83)): 539–562.
Published: 01 September 2017
..., and types of experiences enabled this collaboration against all odds? This article addresses these questions by looking at the ambiguous ways the group’s meetings mobilized the principles and practices of open source, prototyping, and a focus on doing, configuring the gatherings as spaces...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (1 (75)): 7–19.
Published: 01 January 2015
... was not inclined to give me anything worth writing about. The two problems and their potential solutions were intimately connected, and together they open up a useful perspective on the larger histories of celebrity and journalism. References Eskenazi Joe . 2011 . “ Fighting Chance: Boxer Karim...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 217–231.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Emilienne Baneth-Nouailhetas This article isolates a few flashpoints in the debating space opened up by the copresence, within a volume, of contributions by Jean-François Bayart, Achille Mbembe, and Ann Laura Stoler. The concepts or notions discussed are useful as core samplings of the multiple...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (1): 3–7.
Published: 01 January 2009
...María Victoria Uribe This article describes the complexity of transitional justice in Colombia since the approval of Law 975, known as the “Justice and Peace Law,” and the demobilization of the United Autodefenses of Colombia in 2005. In the middle of the open war between the Revolutionary Armed...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (2 (97)): 167–193.
Published: 01 May 2022
... time these systems, ultimately, are vulnerable to outside interception—opening them to a partial reversal of the surveillant gaze. [email protected] Copyright 2022 by Duke Universityc Press 2022 surveillance capitalism social reproduction counterterrorism Uyghur China Sometime...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 393–403.
Published: 01 September 2023
... commitments to climate governance. Initially conceived by political leaders advising on disaster risk reduction at a 2013 UN General Assembly meeting, the IDF recognizes financial institutions, practices, and devices as integral to addressing climate change. Through its activities and investments in an open...
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