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Public Culture (1994) 6 (2): 293–317.
Published: 01 May 1994
... a Cuban Past Just what was a nation in this age of a hlly mobile, denationalized international market? Just what was a nation when vast numbers of immigrants were on the move, making every society in the developed world what the social workers liked to call...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (1 (75)): 1–5.
Published: 01 January 2015
... and extended dynamics that have fundamentally changed little over the past two centuries. The essays that follow turn our attention to sites ranging from Syria to Silicon Valley, the Museum of Modern Art to karaoke bars, reality television to Instagram to ask how new digital media platforms have changed...
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Public Culture (2000) 12 (2): 499.
Published: 01 May 2000
...Paul Ryer © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Paul Ryer , a graduate student at the University of Chicago,conducted fieldwork in Cuba, 1995–97. Millenniums Past Cuba’s Future? Paul Ryer...
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Published: 01 January 2024
Figure 3 Prisoners marching past the Tobacco Monopoly Building repurposed as the SS–Truppenwirtschaftslager , winter 1941. Source: Yad Vashem Archives. More
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Public Culture (1997) 10 (1): 115–134.
Published: 01 January 1997
...Jonathan Veitch Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Colossus in Ruins: Remembering Pittsburgh’s Industrial Past Jonathan Veitch A world is at our feet as fragile...
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Public Culture (1998) 10 (2): 397–416.
Published: 01 May 1998
...Jürgen Habermas; Ciaran Cronin Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 The European Nation-State: On the Past and Future of Sovereignty and Citizenship Jürgen Habermas...
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Public Culture (2000) 12 (1): 21–38.
Published: 01 January 2000
... Time in a Culture of Amnesia (1995), “Monumental Seduction” ( New German Critique , fall 1996), and “The Voids of Berlin” ( Critical Inquiry , fall 1997). Present Pasts: Media, Politics, Amnesia Andreas Huyssen...
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Public Culture (1996) 9 (1): 93–112.
Published: 01 January 1996
... York: Harper and Row. Transnationalism and Its Pasts Kandice Chuh [Bleing American is a terribly incomplete thing $one$ face is not white...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (3): 411–424.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Alex Gourevitch It is safe to say that the politics of fear, that doomed project of national rejuvenation through fear and emergency, is in the past . But past in what sense? The answer depends on the response to another question: what are the alternatives offered by the Left that could provide...
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Public Culture (2024) 36 (2 (103)): 279–302.
Published: 01 May 2024
... a historical continuity with an auratic past and disallows the agential power of technology to extinguish the spirit of the Indic auratic past. In effect, Brahmanic comportment disallows technological advancement and human flourishing. [email protected] [email protected]...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (1): 175–209.
Published: 01 January 2009
... that our attention is not only centered on the visual traces of the extinct past that resurfaces; rather, we also scan the vestiges of the future that these images distill. Their use of a visual rhetoric that defines scenarios, excludes or includes protagonists, and, most crucially, evokes pedagogies...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (3 (77)): 513–532.
Published: 01 September 2015
... the past forty years, the alterity of the past, and her current project on the history of feminism and urban space in 1970s and 1980s London. 2015 cosmopolitanism feminist historiography sexual labor public health Victorian Britain Sharon Marcus (SM): Where and when did you grow up...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (1 (78)): 9–21.
Published: 01 January 2016
...S. D. Chrostowska This short essay considers the increasingly nostalgic life of physical books. From immaculate leather-bound collections to “dummy” libraries, in private homes or department stores, since at least the mid-nineteenth century, old books have enjoyed past-directed affective...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (3): 539–549.
Published: 01 September 2009
... unrealized) Cultural Revolution Museum, I argue that these films manifest an intriguing tension between the traumatic past and the oblivious present, between the intimate confidentiality of interviews and their address of a larger public sphere, and between the courtroom-like “objectivity...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Janet Roitman Over the past years, France has been rocked not only by violent demonstrations in the banlieues (city outskirts) but also by raging debates regarding the place of “postcolonial studies” in the French archive and in current scholarship. The dispute over postcolonial studies...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (2): 229–243.
Published: 01 May 2009
... the press and the drug dealers has changed over the past years, and how civil society attempts to respond to the violence of the city. Finally, the interview examines Reis's photographs of the carnival in Rio as a different kind of aesthetic rendering of the subjective and collective inventions of the self...
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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 (2011) 23 (3 (65)): 493–504.
Published: 01 September 2011
... social networking sites—as to individuals themselves. This article discusses the role of circulation in understanding the Egyptian popular uprising. It focuses on the literary work of a young generation of Egyptians whose writings from the past several years—and comments on the January 25 movement...
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (2 (67)): 239–247.
Published: 01 May 2012
..., rivalries, successes, and failures—reminds us of something overlooked in recent decades: that sovereignty in the past and in many areas today is complex, divided, layered, and configured on multiple founding principles and practices. This article points to the varied repertoires of power used by empires...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (1 (81)): 17–26.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Josef Sorett This essay tracks the evolving tensions between culture and politics in African American life to offer an account of how an idea of “church” shapes contemporary black literature and social activism. Although generally understood as a dramatic reimagining of the black past...