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Published: 01 January 2021
figure 1 Rose Salane, El Comercio, The Trade (2019). RAND Memorandum, metal Esso logo, inkjet on newsprint, silkscreen on matte. Courtesy the artist and Carlos/Ishikawa Gallery. Photograph by Charles Mayer. More
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Public Culture (2006) 18 (2): 323–347.
Published: 01 May 2006
... by the National Security Division of the Rand Corporation, about which I will have more to say below. See Cheryl Benard, Civil and Demo- cratic Islam: Partners, Resources, Strategies (Pittsburgh: Rand Corporation, 2003), 4. 13. Indeed, many of the intellectuals writing under the rubric of liberal Islam...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (1 (93)): 63.
Published: 01 January 2021
...figure 1 Rose Salane, El Comercio, The Trade (2019). RAND Memorandum, metal Esso logo, inkjet on newsprint, silkscreen on matte. Courtesy the artist and Carlos/Ishikawa Gallery. Photograph by Charles Mayer. ...
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Public Culture (2008) 20 (3): 453–459.
Published: 01 September 2008
... ethnographic argument proposes? What agenda authorizes us to remain uncritical of it? 3. Mahmood describes the Rand Corporation’s findings regarding the inner workings of Islamic societies as exemplary of American imperialist practices...
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Public Culture (2004) 16 (2): 315–335.
Published: 01 May 2004
... of Late Colonialism (London: James Currey, 1996), 220. 7. Philip Bonner and Vusi Ndima, “The Roots of Violence on the East Rand, 1980–1990,” Institute for Advanced Social Research, University of the Witwatersrand, Seminar Paper no. 450. 8...
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Public Culture (2003) 15 (1): 90–102.
Published: 01 January 2003
... learned during the development of the AH-64A Apache attack helicopter . Rand reprint series no. 105. Santa Monica, Calif.: Rand. Beidler, Philip D. 1998 . The last Huey. Mythosphere 1 , no. 1: 51 -64. Boeing Company. 2001 . AH-64 Apache Multi-Mission Combat Helicopter . Available on-line...
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (1 (66)): 47–53.
Published: 01 January 2012
... calls the ‘think factory,’ like the RAND (Research and Devel- opment) Corporation.” In economic affairs, the leading supplier of policy advice was arguably the Brookings Institution, which had assisted in the development of the Marshall...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (2 (94)): 193–217.
Published: 01 May 2021
... (aka “the Rand”) in 1886 and mushroomed with an influx of prospectors, laborers, capital, and infrastructure. Until extraction ran its course, one-third of the world's gold originated on the Rand (Trangoš 2015 ). In the 1970s and 1980s, sharply declining gold levels and growing political unrest...
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Public Culture (2008) 20 (2): 199–231.
Published: 01 May 2008
... fifteen to sixty-five years of age earned 3,200 rand or less per month. More than 52 percent earned less than 1,600 rand per month. This was lower than the averages for both Gauteng and Northwest Provinces, the two provinces under whose jurisdiction the various towns and town- ships of Merafong...
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Public Culture (2007) 19 (2): 247–271.
Published: 01 May 2007
... was the predominant nuclear strategy within the Department of Defense in the 1950s, experts outside of the military were rethinking the basic tenets of deterrence. Civilian defense intellectuals with the RAND Corporation, with backgrounds in technical...
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Public Culture (1990) 3 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 January 1990
... Perrot. ( 1978 ) Ethnocentrism and History: Africa, Asia and Indian America in Western Textbooks . New York, London, Lagos: Nok Publishers. Rand, McNally & Co. ( 1893 ) Handbook of the World's Columbian Exposition . Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co. Rumeu de Armas , Antonio. ( 1985...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 201–212.
Published: 01 May 2015
... with computers were uniformly unsuccessful, stymied for want of sound theory, sufficient input data, and operational relevance. Most were ultimately disregarded, but some caused significant harm. One oversimplified simulation developed by the New York City–RAND Institute to help plan firehouse closures amid...
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (3 68): 451–456.
Published: 01 September 2012
..., and there was a danger that it might have been overwhelmed by them. At the same time, this encounter reminds us that the “99 percent” is composed not of Ayn Rand – like market-­driven machines but of highly diverse bodies...
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Public Culture (2006) 18 (1): 185–208.
Published: 01 January 2006
... the gangsters control the whole thing. . . . before we all owned our own vehicle but now the big drug lords buy taxis to become legit . . . they threw me out of the taxi association and they charge new members fifteen to twenty thousand rand.” Mandela and others have formed their own association, which...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (1): 21–41.
Published: 01 January 2009
...,The Psychology of Self-Esteem: A New Concept of Man’s Nature (Los Angeles: Nash, 1969). At the time, Branden was known as the former lover and protégé of Ayn Rand as well as a coauthor of Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, a book written with Rand, Robert Hessen, and . . . Alan Greenspan. About twenty years...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (2 (73)): 257–280.
Published: 01 May 2014
... . 1999 . The Changing Role of the Military in Space . Santa Monica, CA : Rand . Griffiths Tom . 2007 . Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Haraway Donna J . 1991 . Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature...
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Public Culture (1996) 8 (3): 587–597.
Published: 01 September 1996
.... Discrepant Histories: Translocal Essays on Filipino Cul- tures. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995. Rand, Eria. Barbie’s Queer Accessories. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995. Raskin, Marcus. Visions and Revisions: Rejections on Culture...
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Public Culture (2004) 16 (3): 507–519.
Published: 01 September 2004
... (the Old Fort was taken over by the Rand Light Infantry and the Women’s Gaol by the Met- ropolitan Police). So it was just left to rot, abandoned. I’ve been thinking about why that is. Maybe it’s because it resisted reuse; that’s its power. The way it was built—which says a lot about the attitude...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 405–416.
Published: 01 September 2023
... to avert. At the mundane level of bureaucracy, too, game theory and systems analysis failed to produce the certainty that national security officials craved. Even Charles Hitch, the RAND economist and systems analysis proselytizer, argued in 1960 that certainty was unattainable; he warned, “No other...
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (1 (66)): 85–103.
Published: 01 January 2012
..., particularly things like operations research and the RAND Corporation, and government agencies and other nongovernment agencies like the NBER, the National Bureau of Eco- nomic Research. CZ: How do you and Kevin write together? MP: I’m the writer and he edits. Often what he does is make changes...