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Public Culture (1992) 5 (1): 67–74.
Published: 01 January 1992
... from the start, so that even the cornmandement is not a stable notion of sovereignty; on the contrary, this is a commandement that governs to the extent that it is perpetually and extravagantly ratified, and whose extravagance and theatricality is central to its operation. Mbembe...
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Public Culture (1993) 5 (3): 431–449.
Published: 01 September 1993
... of a visual aesthetic. The consequences of this failure are plain in the ratified emblem (see figure 1): this displays the Figure I. The Ratified menorah, flanked by olive branches, with the name of the state, Israel, inscribed Emblem of Israel beneath the menorah’s base...
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Public Culture (2004) 16 (3): 521–531.
Published: 01 September 2004
... Architect , June, 19. Reframing Township Space: The Kliptown Project Lindsay Bremner I n 1955, the African National Congress (ANC) held its historic Congress of the People to ratify its liberation manifesto...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (1 (75)): 1–5.
Published: 01 January 2015
...? The contributors ratify a by now common observation, that the speed and reach of the Internet have created a more globally connected world; as a result, celebrities and their publics have become more transnational (Tongson, Kraidy, Marwick). The essays also complicate this claim in at least two ways. First...
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Public Culture (1992) 5 (1): 123–145.
Published: 01 January 1992
...; Trouillot: 76; Coronil: 90; Olaniyan: 51; 54). My critics wonder if the fact of “reading” Africa in the language and through the concepts of “the other” (Foucault, Bakhtin, Bataille ) does not ratify, in the end, colonial cultural hegemony (Butler: 67). I have been reproached for having pinned...
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Public Culture (1992) 4 (2): 1–30.
Published: 01 May 1992
... maximum insmmentality and efficacy as and when required.15 If there is, then, a “postcolonial subject,” he or she is publicly visible only at the point where the two activities overlap ’- on one hand, in the common daily rituals that ratify the cornmandement’s own institutionaliza- tion (its...
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Public Culture (1992) 5 (1): 47–55.
Published: 01 January 1992
... that ratify the cornmandement’s own institu- tionalization in its capacity as fetish to which the subject is bound; and, Gayatri C. Spivak, “Subaltern Studies: Decoinstructing Historiography,” in In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics (New York P!outledge, 1988): 221. 52...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (3 (83)): 433–455.
Published: 01 September 2017
...” as a governmental strategy for mitigating Taiwanese public anxiety about Chinese immigrants in their midst, see Friedman 2010 , 2015 : 127–32. 16 China has repeatedly blocked Taiwan’s applications to rejoin the UN as a sovereign member state. Therefore, by unilaterally ratifying these UN covenants...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (3): 465–493.
Published: 01 September 2009
... with which Habermas would endow it appears as an ongoing project, as various actors try to establish its logics of publicity as standard. In Tijuana, legal access to the United States ratifies socioeconomic status...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (3): 411–424.
Published: 01 September 2010
.... 421 Public Culture the anachronism of ratifying treaties” and instead essentially ask Congress to grant the president fast-­track authority, so that we can make Kyoto domestic law.30 Never mind that the effect of such processes would be to strengthen...
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Public Culture (1993) 5 (2): 267–280.
Published: 01 May 1993
... by common subjection to a state. The outcomes of past struggles- conquests, inheritances, civil wars, anti-imperial revolts -are ratified through administrative centralization. Not all states are equally effective, but the effectivenessof some...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 443–455.
Published: 01 September 2023
... also dispatched their navies to suppress pirate fishermen. Seamen's trade unions condemned their actions and demanded protection. Western parliaments hastily ratified the military missions, calibrated in antiterrorism rhetoric, recalling the historically timeless image of the pirate as the enemy of our...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 197–214.
Published: 01 May 2019
... on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, ratified by the United States in 1994, see State Dept., Treaties in Force 422–423 (June 1996), endorses “special and concrete measures to ensure the adequate development and protection of certain racial groups or individuals belonging to them, for the purpose...
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (2 (67)): 261–281.
Published: 01 May 2012
... analyzed herein documents the power of the state to ratify what will be called reality. It also confirms the now commonplace disavowal of the “costs” of a war that is hidden in plain sight. 34. Feldman, “The Structuring Enemy,” 1712. 35. This suspension of belief has been one of the most...
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Public Culture (1993) 5 (3): 411–429.
Published: 01 September 1993
... societies now face influxes of immigrants and refugees, wanted and un- wanted. Others are pushing out groups in acts of ethnic cleansing intended to produce the very people whose preexistence the nation was supposed to ratify. But America may be alone in having organized itself around a modem...
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Public Culture (1994) 6 (3): 525–545.
Published: 01 September 1994
...” and “plurality of intensities” endemic to its heterogeneous materials (Heath 1985, 513). In turn, this emphasis on the ordered and ordering point-of-view implied by narrative ratifies the similar positioning of the viewing subject by the cinematic...
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Public Culture (2007) 19 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 January 2007
.... In that tumultuous period of seemingly unfettered capitalist globalization, numerous constitutions were writ- ten and ratified; elections, not always fair and free, were held all over the world, including most recently in the long suffering Congo; people marched and dicta- tors were deposed; blueprints...
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Public Culture (2005) 17 (2): 319–338.
Published: 01 May 2005
... these formations remix the temporality of modernity per se. Du Bois, Ellison, and Benjamin ratify, reimagine, and morselize the supposed linearity of hegemonic time from the (aural) vantage point of the oppressed. Overall, it is sound that allows...
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Public Culture (1998) 10 (2): 371–394.
Published: 01 May 1998
... is not the same “people” at the beginning of the Constitution. The latter was created by James Madison, agreed upon by the Constitutional Convention, and ratified by the state legislatures. It was, as Morgan has put it, an “invention”: “But even before...
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Public Culture (2007) 19 (1): 197–219.
Published: 01 January 2007
..., while not as internationally visible as TAC, organizes a network of sup- port groups, the AIDS Law Project at the University of the Witwatersrand, and a string of local and translocal NGOs (see Le Marcis 2004; Robins 2004b). 6. This document, ratified in 1955 at the Congress of the People held...