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Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 201–215.
Published: 01 January 2011
... to the rejection by 15. For efforts to present postcolonial studies and discuss its relevance to the French context, see the two special issues “Postcolonialisme et immigrations,” Contretemps 16 (2006), and “Faut-­il être postcolonial?” ed. Laurent Dubreuil, Labyrinthe 24, no. 2 (2006...
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Public Culture (1992) 5 (1): 89–108.
Published: 01 January 1992
... 33 : 2 (Spring 1991). Davis , Mike . 1992 In Los Angeles, Burning All Illusions, The Nation 254 ( 21 ), June 1. Frankenberg , Ruth , and Lata Mani. 1991 Crosscurrents, Crosstalk: Race, ‘Postcoloniality’ and the Politics of Location. Unpublished paper. Kelley , Robin D. G...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 27–38.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Leela Gandhi This essay considers recent critiques of postcolonial theory and proposes democracy as a theme likely to prove crucial for the future of the field. It argues that a properly postcolonial turn toward democracy demands a new philosophical, political, and ethical valuation of the concept...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 55–84.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Jean-François Bayart It is misguided to imagine that French researchers and French universities are unaware of postcolonial studies. In reality, forms close to this school of thought emerged very early in the French university context, but they were obliged to take other academic traditions...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 191–199.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Ranjana Khanna The essay responds to attacks and defenses of postcolonial studies by Jean-François Bayart, Achille Mbembe, and Ann Laura Stoler, drawing attention to the limited understanding of difference and subjectivity in all essays. Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 All...
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Public Culture (1992) 4 (2): 1–30.
Published: 01 May 1992
...Achille Mbembe Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 TW‘DANALITY OF ?’OW€R AND TW A€STttETICS W VULGARITY IN TWPOSTCOLONY Translated by Janet Roitman In this article, I will examine the banality of power in the “postcolony.”l By “banality...
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Public Culture (1992) 5 (1): 47–55.
Published: 01 January 1992
... produc- tion of Opera Wonyosi, one of Soyinka’s mordant dramatic works, yet the former reads so much like sitting through a performance of the latter. If there is a certain untethered exorbitance in Mbembe’s characterization of the “postcolony” - its “banality,” “vulgarity,” “excess...
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (3): 617–619.
Published: 01 September 2002
...Kimberly Wedeven Segall © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Kimberly Wedeven Segall is an assistant professor of postcolonial studies at Seattle Pacific University. She directed the play Khumbulani/Remembrance , first performed by and for Xhosa victims of political violence in Cape...
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Public Culture (2004) 16 (1): 67–78.
Published: 01 January 2004
... are on popular culture, media, national politics, and race in West Africa. From Visuality to Postcolonial African Politics: A Conversation with Saidou Mohamed N’Daou Jesse...
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Public Culture (1997) 9 (3): 377–393.
Published: 01 September 1997
...William P. MacNeil Copyright © 1997 by © 1997 by the University of Chicago 1997 Enjoy Your Rights! Three Cases from the Postcolonial Commonwealth William I! MacNeil fostcolonial...
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Public Culture (1998) 10 (3): 549–575.
Published: 01 September 1998
.... “Difference, Discrimination, and the Discourse of Colonialism.” In The Politics of Theory: Proceedings of the Essex Conference on the Sociology of Literature, July 1982 , edited by Francis Barker et al. Colchester, England: University of Essex. Bhabha , Homi . 1991. “The Postcolonial Critic: Homi...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 379–391.
Published: 01 September 2023
...; and (3) the postcolonial materiality of microbiomic knowledge. These conditions demand critical reflections on the governance of scientific exchange in the era of digital biology, beyond the polarized present that posits data sovereignty on one side and a Mertonian scientific commons on the other...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (2 (100)): 255–277.
Published: 01 May 2023
... was in some ways unexceptional, both in Sierra Leonean politics and in the postcolonial response to urban crime. And yet it marked a subtle shift in both Sierra Leonean electoral politics and in the way such vigilante justice in African cities is interpreted. Contrasting the ethnographic elements...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (3 (83)): 457–480.
Published: 01 September 2017
..., it may have undermined mainstream Jewish institutional strategies that relied on the evocation of a stable French national “identity” to both fight anti-Semitism and produce Jewish belonging in France. Copyright © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 Europe national identity postcolonialism...
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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 (2011) 23 (1): 85–119.
Published: 01 January 2011
...-­Loup Amselle, L’Occident décroché: Enquête sur les postcolonialismes (Paris: Stock, 2008). 36. See Catherine Coquery-­Vidrovitch, Enjeux politiques de l’histoire coloniale (Marseille: Agone, 2008). 37. Jean-­François Bayart, “Postcolonial Studies: A Political Invention of Tradition...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 217–231.
Published: 01 January 2011
... prominent on the French academic scene during the past decade. But somehow the flare of interest inle postcolonial or postcolonialisme has been accompanied, rather than followed, by even more visible commentaries and metacommentaries, rejections, and criticisms.1 Recent academic publications...
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Public Culture (2024) 36 (1 (102)): 17–45.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Ayala Levin Abstract This essay is concerned with how architecture was imagined to mediate tropical climate in the interest of forming productive postcolonial national subjects. It charts a transition in approach from late colonial to postcolonial modernist architecture as it was exemplified...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 19–26.
Published: 01 January 2011
... to be imposed. Here an extraordinary brassage is at work—a mix and, at times, a linking of arms, a wealth of commentary and engaged political analysis—that speaks, as few words can, to the tangible reality of postcolonial France. Nowhere is this as evident as in the explosion of artistic activity taking place...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 167–175.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Robert J. C. Young A critique of Jean-François Bayart's polemics against postcolonial studies, which, it is argued, works through unsubstantiated generalizations rather than detailed analysis of the key texts in the field. Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011...