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The “End” of the Postwar: Japan at the Turn of the Millennium

Carol Gluck
Public Culture (1997) 10 (1): 1–23.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-10-1-1
Published: 01 January 1997
...Carol Gluck Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 The “End” of the Postwar: Japan at the Turn of the Millennium Carol Gluck e seem, in the 1990s, to be obsessed...
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Close Reading and Thin Description

Heather Love
Public Culture (2013) 25 (3 (71)): 401–434.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2144688
Published: 01 September 2013
...Heather Love This essay considers practices of observation and description in postwar microsociology as a model for contemporary practices of reading. Returning to the work of Gilbert Ryle and Clifford Geertz, Heather Love contends that the dominance of thick description in both the humanities...
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The Reckless Will: Prison Chaplaincy and the Problem of Mara Salvatrucha

Kevin Lewis O'Neill
Public Culture (2010) 22 (1): 67–88.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2009-016
Published: 01 January 2010
..., with the strongest networks forming in the postwar countries of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. Today a range of security officials train their efforts on a curious loophole in gang membership—Christian conversion as a way out—and by doing so open up new streams of funding and prompt a specialized cadre...
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Between Europe and America: An Interview with Werner Sollors

Arvind Rajagopal
Public Culture (2020) 32 (2 (91)): 255–285.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8090087
Published: 01 May 2020
...Arvind Rajagopal Werner Sollors is one of the first scholars of American literature to focus on African American literature before it was thought to constitute a canon in the academy. Unlike many other scholars who shared his focus, he completed his education in postwar Germany. The title of his...
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Object Lessons for the Media Home: From Storagewall to Invisible Design

Lynn Spigel
Public Culture (2012) 24 (3 68): 535–576.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1630681
Published: 01 September 2012
... of postwar America. Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 MEDIA AND THE WORLD OF THINGS Object Lessons for the Media Home: From Storagewall to Invisible Design Lynn Spigel...
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Extorted Life: Protection Rackets in Guatemala City

Anthony W. Fontes
Public Culture (2016) 28 (3 (80)): 593–616.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3511562
Published: 01 September 2016
... to collective anxieties over the terms of everyday survival and the difficulty of determining just who is in charge. This essay is an ethnography of extorted life, mapping the expanding geographies of extortion in postwar Guatemala to illuminate how this cold-blooded business organizes life at the most intimate...
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White in the Deep Blue: Greek Shipping, Racial Capitalism, and Decolonization at Sea

Nikolas Kosmatopoulos
Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 443–455.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-10742621
Published: 01 September 2023
... capitalism. This article explores a largely uncharted territory through a critical appraisal of postwar Greek‐owned shipping. Greece's dominant place in global shipping offers an illuminating and yet understudied entry point to political economies of neocolonial / racial capitalism at sea. The first part...
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Tropical Skins: Climate, Character, and the Postindependence African Subject

Ayala Levin
Public Culture (2024) 36 (1 (102)): 17–45.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-11121473
Published: 01 January 2024
... in the design of the University of Ife campus in Nigeria in the 1960s by an Israeli team led by Arieh Sharon in collaboration with the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Sharon's team formed an alternative to the postwar predominance of sun-shading devices, specifically...
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Death and History: An Emperor's Funeral

Ako Nakano
Public Culture (1990) 2 (2): 33–40.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2-2-33
Published: 01 May 1990
...; it draws in and it draws out. After surrendering to the Allied Powers in 1945, the rays of the sun were castrated. The flag became a National flag. One's aesthetics or politics can determine at least two symbolic readings of the postwar flag: it is the un- marked white landscape that encompasses...
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Japanese No-Noh: The Crosstalk of Public Culture in a Rural Festivity

William Kelly
Public Culture (1990) 2 (2): 65–81.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2-2-65
Published: 01 May 1990
.... Kelly , William ( forthcoming ) 1990a “Regional Japan: The Price of Prosperity and the Benefits of Dependency,” Daedalus . Kelly , William ( forthcoming ) 1990b “Finding a Place in Metropolitan Japan: Postwar Transpositions of Everyday Life.” In Andrew Gordon (ed.), Postwur Japan...
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The Revival of Reinhold Niebuhr: A Foreign Policy Fable

Robert B. Horwitz
Public Culture (2016) 28 (1 (78)): 113–138.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3325040
Published: 01 January 2016
.... As the historian David L. Chappell (2004 : 27–43) suggests, the postwar liberal consensus never assimilated Niebuhr’s pessimism about human nature. Instead, the American political establishment tended to perpetuate an optimism about US actions and ends that manifested in the hubris of Cold War American foreign...
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Human Territoriality and the Downfall of Public Housing

Kenny Cupers
Public Culture (2017) 29 (1 (81)): 165–190.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3644445
Published: 01 January 2017
... as a way to understand human dwelling but as a strategy to rethink existing conditions in a comprehensive way. Instead of insisting on the separation of functions and biological requirements—objective quantities of air, light, and space—in their housing and urban schemes, postwar architects now aimed...
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The Nature of the Image: Olgyay and Olgyay’s Architectural-Climatic Diagrams in the 1950s

Daniel A. Barber
Public Culture (2017) 29 (1 (81)): 129–164.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3644433
Published: 01 January 2017
... to consider anew the representation of the relationship between economies and ecologies opens up a fertile ground for analysis, one made even more potent given the significance of the immediate postwar years in establishing persistent patterns of ecological devastation. 3 Indeed, concern over the role...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (3): 609–610.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-22-3-609
Published: 01 September 2010
... 2010 Contributors Rita Chin is an associate professor at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany (2007) and coauthor of After the Nazi Racial State: Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe (2009). She...
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Tabata Hideomi as “The Bather”

Norma Field
Public Culture (1999) 11 (3): 430–433.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-11-3-430
Published: 01 September 1999
...- dren. The plural is important here, for otherwise absent fathers also participate in this activity as they can, and not just with their sons but their young daughters as well. In the earlier postwar decades, when fewer homes had their own baths...
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The Satanic Geographies of Globalization: Uneven Development in the 1990s

Neil Smith
Public Culture (1997) 10 (1): 169–189.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-10-1-169
Published: 01 January 1997
... a remarkable metaphor for certain aspects of the uneven global development that succeeded the postwar era and is ever more viscerally evident in the 1990s. There is no doubt that the language of globalization that has captured the public...
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Untimely Vision: Aimé Césaire, Decolonization, Utopia

Gary Wilder
Public Culture (2009) 21 (1): 101–140.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2008-023
Published: 01 January 2009
... Césaire’s discredited and outmoded projects for nonnational colo- nial emancipation, this inquiry seeks to reflect critically on openings within the postwar order that were foreclosed by a nationalist logic of decolonization. It also pays...
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Bruno Snell, The Discovery of the Mind (1946; trans. 1953)

Brooke Holmes
Public Culture (2020) 32 (2 (91)): 363–374.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8090124
Published: 01 May 2020
...: The Greek Origins of European Thought was published by Harvard University Press, giving Snell a durable foothold in postwar anglophone classics. The book, true to its title, seeks to demonstrate the process by which a unified sense of self, analytical rationality, and the humaneness on which humanism...
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Turkish Women, West German Feminists, and the Gendered Discourse on Muslim Cultural Difference

Rita Chin
Public Culture (2010) 22 (3): 557–581.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2010-009
Published: 01 September 2010
... framing of difference is not a new phenomenon. Indeed, the distinctive gender norms of postwar migrants became a major theme for journalists, social scientists, and policy makers once significant numbers of family reunions had taken place...
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (3 68): v–viii.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-24-3_68-v
Published: 01 September 2012
... is a professor in the screen cultures program at North- western University. She is the author of TV by Design: Modern Art and the Rise of Network Television (2009), Welcome to the Dreamhouse: Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs (2001), and Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar...
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