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Private Selves as Public Property: Black Women’s Self-Making in the Contemporary Moment

Jenn M. Jackson

Public Culture (2020) 32 (1): 107–131.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7816317

Published: 01 January 2020

... have established themselves as the owners of their labor and sexuality, regardless of the moral stigmas society thrusts on them. These sorts of acts of resistance are the primary focus of this article. For enslaved Black women, the legal frameworks that codified their existence as property...

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Manifold Enclosures: Decommodifying Property at Esther's Orbit Room in West Oakland

Janette Kim

Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 453–472.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9937368

Published: 01 September 2022

..., cooperatives, and social movements, EB PREC orchestrates local, collective governance to harness the staying power of ownership and resist its commodification. EB PREC's complex institutional structure is mirrored in the manifold enclosures of the Orbit Room property, which expands, contracts, and subdivides...

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Property, Dispossession, and Citizenship in Turkey; Or, the History of the Gezi Uprising Starts in the Surp Hagop Armenian Cemetery

Ayşe Parla, Ceren Özgül

Public Culture (2016) 28 (3 (80)): 617–653.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3511574

Published: 01 September 2016

... of inclusiveness, such a focus unravels the key tension between, on the one hand, progressive and left-wing calls to promote the allegedly equal, universal citizen in Turkey through protest movements and, on the other hand, the differential property regime on which the Turkish nation-state is founded, the denial...

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“Housing Is a Human Right”: Moms for Housing's Black Feminist Politics of Shelter

M. C. Overholt

Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 437–452.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9937354

Published: 01 September 2022

... offers potential flightlines toward a post-property future—one in which housing is positioned as a basic human right—but also a generative critique of the home as a site of racialized and gendered subject formation. Indeed, through their work, the reconception of kinship formation and territorial...

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The Sublime Frequencies of New Old Media

David Novak

Public Culture (2011) 23 (3 (65)): 603–634.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1336435

Published: 01 September 2011

... authenticated by noise and psychedelic incommensurability. “World Music 2.0” conjoins the open source ethics of online networks with long-standing countercultural networks of circulation. Media redistributors resist hegemonic frameworks of intellectual property and cultural representation by conjuring...

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Genomic and Viral Sovereignty: Tethering the Materials of Global Biomedicine

Amy Hinterberger, Natalie Porter

Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 361–386.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2841904

Published: 01 May 2015

...Amy Hinterberger; Natalie Porter Viruses and genomes have become the subjects of sovereign claims in contemporary biomedical research. These claims invest biological materials with geopolitical attachments to both nation-states and continental regions and seek to alter the property regimes...

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Rupali Gupte, Prasad Shetty

Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 537–562.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9937424

Published: 01 September 2022

... to operate through modern imperatives of empiricism, technolegality, property regimes, boundaries, and so on. But while these imperatives are limited in understanding life, they are also not completely capable of handling the complexities of the urban. The paper further discusses a variety of ideas like...

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Uncle Sam Needs Your Ideas: A Brief History of Embodied Knowledge in American World War II Posters

Bregje F. van Eekelen

Public Culture (2018) 30 (1): 113–142.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-4189191

Published: 01 January 2018

... interrogates a set of posters produced by the War Production Board and labor-management committees that articulate this particular history of ideas. By examining the reconfigurations of time and space, the incorporation of workers’ bodies and minds, and the campaign’s understandings of expertise and property...

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On the Systematic and Historical Analysis of Concessionary Zones

Joshua Barkan

Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 431–441.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-10742607

Published: 01 September 2023

... into by states and companies that govern many extractive enclaves. Because concessions have a long, convoluted, and underexamined history, they are an ideal object for examining the shifting configurations of law, sovereignty, property, and government that undergird contemporary extraction. Neither simply public...

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Settler Shock: Colonial Fetishism and the Disavowal of Violence in Contemporary Canada

Joseph Weiss

Public Culture (2024) 36 (1 (102)): 75–95.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-11121499

Published: 01 January 2024

... of land as colonial property is the stabilizing force on which colonial disavowal rests. It ends by suggesting, however, that settler colonialism can never, in truth, be stabilized. [email protected] Copyright 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 settler colonialism disavowal fetishism...

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Published: 01 September 2022

figure 2 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Oakland, Alameda County, California, with black line showing Esther's Orbit Room properties, 1889. Image: Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division. For permissions information, please see hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g4364om.g4364om_g007271889 . More

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3427523

Published: 01 May 2016

... a forested tract of state game land, tractor trailer caravans routinely snarled traffic and caused the road to buckle, and a fifty-foot plume of fire shot out of a flare stack for days. While the Bowers put a covenant on their property to enshrine its Arcadian character, and though the gas company placed...

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In the Time of the Law

Valerie Werder

Public Culture (2023) 35 (2 (100)): 207–231.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-10575567

Published: 01 May 2023

..., during his life, as property, the law's algorithm fails. Given the historical exclusion of African Americans from rights and access to the US legal system both during and after the period of slavery, it is hardly surprising that Lanier's claim forces the law to an impasse. Like the robo-reporter's half...

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Los Angeles, Asians, and Perverse Ventriloquisms: On the Functions of Asian America in the Recent American Imaginary

David Palumbo-Liu

Public Culture (1994) 6 (2): 365–381.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-6-2-365

Published: 01 May 1994

..., and, by extension, Asians in general, formed an integral part of a powerful homology of race, property, violence and "justice" that significantly reinforced white hegemonic I am grateful to Marilyn Ivy for her many helpful comments and suggestions. Mayfair Yang points out...

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Private Selves as Public Property: Black Women’s Self-Making in the Contemporary Moment

Manifold Enclosures: Decommodifying Property at Esther's Orbit Room in West Oakland

Property, Dispossession, and Citizenship in Turkey; Or, the History of the Gezi Uprising Starts in the Surp Hagop Armenian Cemetery

“Housing Is a Human Right”: Moms for Housing's Black Feminist Politics of Shelter

The Sublime Frequencies of New Old Media

Genomic and Viral Sovereignty: Tethering the Materials of Global Biomedicine

small forces

Uncle Sam Needs Your Ideas: A Brief History of Embodied Knowledge in American World War II Posters

On the Systematic and Historical Analysis of Concessionary Zones

Settler Shock: Colonial Fetishism and the Disavowal of Violence in Contemporary Canada

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Oakland, Alameda County, California, with b...

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Oakland, Alameda County, California, with b...

Sovereignty in a Minor Key

Forget Locke? From Proprietor to Risk-Bearer in New Logics of Finance

Mud for the Land

Copyrighting Che: Art and Authorship under Cuban Late Socialism

White in the Deep Blue: Greek Shipping, Racial Capitalism, and Decolonization at Sea

Fracking Communities

In the Time of the Law

Los Angeles, Asians, and Perverse Ventriloquisms: On the Functions of Asian America in the Recent American Imaginary

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