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Public Culture (1993) 5 (2): 317–327.
Published: 01 May 1993
...Janelle S. Taylor; Greg Anderson Copyright © 1993 by The University of Chicago 1993 Non-Sense in Context:
Xu Bing’s Art and Its Publics
Interview and Translation by Janelle S. Taylor...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (3 (95)): 393–415.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Denise Gill Abstract This article provides an account of how sense experiences are drawn into processes of contest over the boundaries of citizenship and belonging. Based on ethnographic research in Istanbul and Ankara, it examines the ruptures of the 2016 failed coup attempt in Turkey. Particular...
FIGURES
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (3): 411–424.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Alex Gourevitch It is safe to say that the politics of fear, that doomed project of national rejuvenation through fear and emergency, is in the past . But past in what sense? The answer depends on the response to another question: what are the alternatives offered by the Left that could provide...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (2): 269–292.
Published: 01 May 2009
...-to-person microlending Web site Kiva fosters attachments with distant others through the illusion of intimacy that reshapes the global into an emotionally manageable size. This sentimental promise of a small world is both what enables and what haunts a cosmopolitan sense of responsibility to others...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (2): 377–402.
Published: 01 May 2009
.... The elegiac transformation of intimidation into ethical and national consciousness provides a spiritual node around which a renewed sense of national identity can accrete. To cast into relief this claim, the essay also analyzes the dominant cultural rhetorics of the Syrian regime and Lebanese Hezbollah (Party...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (2 70): 233–248.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Monika Krause We live, we are told, in a world that is urbanizing and that is urbanizing at a rapid pace. But the diagnosis of urbanization has lost all meaning. To fully make sense of current sociospatial transformations, we need to also analyze them from the perspective of that which...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (2 70): 261–271.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga This is a story about how the capital, Maputo, and other cities in Mozambique sustain themselves by massively deforesting the countryside, which in turn contributes a staggering and concentrated carbon footprint on the cities’ skies. How then does one make sense...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 275–284.
Published: 01 May 2011
... of departure contemporary scholars such as Aernout Zevenbergen, who ask what it means to be a man today, this article draws on the work of Slavoj Žižek and Gandhi to ask what place reflection — or, less ambitiously, learning — has in young people's sense of manliness. Copyright 2011 by Duke University...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (1): 45–75.
Published: 01 January 2020
... as “climate refugees”—running from climate stress. These emigrants and their families, however, rarely mention the weather as a cause of their plight at home or their decisions to leave. They are fleeing abusive policies, exposure to markets, debt peonage, failures of social security systems and a sense...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (1): 47–76.
Published: 01 January 2009
... and to serve as a conduit for truth. Viewed in the context of the semiotic ideologies they presuppose, conflicts over the actions and authority of the press can reveal some of the difficulties posed by the moral narrative of modernity and the common sense of contemporary liberalism. Copyright 2009 by Duke...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (1 (96)): 123–146.
Published: 01 January 2022
..., but a feature of the landscape itself — a permanent, radical sense of immobility and insecurity. The daily pursuit of survival under the shadow of the “war on terror” compels road-transport workers to participate in the corrupt, coercive, and humiliating system they denounce. [email protected]...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 419–436.
Published: 01 September 2022
... disappeared, and memories of locations vanished as descendants passed away. In the absence of buildings and legally recognized borders, intangible heritage—stories, ephemeral traditions—define a sense of place. Betraying the perception that these places have disappeared, founders’ descendants express...
FIGURES
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (2 (73)): 319–337.
Published: 01 May 2014
.... Ultimately, the essay argues that infovis can offer a misplaced sense of mastery and sidestep the challenges of uncertainty and misinformation. 2014 On any day, the media consumer enters a garden of data delights just by paging through the newspaper, scanning social media feeds, and checking bookmarked...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (3 (74)): 501–528.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Bruce Grant “Art belongs to the people,” Vladimir Lenin famously pronounced at the outset of the Soviet period. For generations, Soviet leaders and their constituents alike had a deft sense of art in the service of state power, including the placement of spectacular architectural monuments among...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 261–289.
Published: 01 May 2016
... has followed suit, even as dwindling water supplies are being opaquely and unequally distributed. To make sense of the situation, I propose, through an exploration of the crisis’s origins and recent developments that builds on over one year of ethnographic fieldwork, a new approach to ecological...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (3 (92)): 513–538.
Published: 01 September 2020
..., the dotcom and the digital—in different ways and in different decades—enable Kenyans to imagine with and through time. Using extensive ethnographic research and reflecting on pop music, TV advertising, and streetscapes, we explore how, for many Kenyans the dotcom and the digital are tools for making sense...
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Public Culture (2007) 19 (1): 117–150.
Published: 01 January 2007
... with the same form in different regions. In India, for instance, the oppo-
site seems to be the case: the level of participation in elections is going up, and
the sense of satisfaction and citizen efficacy seems to be growing. And — what
is really...
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Public Culture (2006) 18 (2): 281–300.
Published: 01 May 2006
...
their social imaginaries and sense of legitimacy, as well as their sense of what is
crucially important in their lives or society. Described in this way, mobilization
was already taking place during the English Reformation and the French Counter...
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Public Culture (1992) 4 (2): 47–65.
Published: 01 May 1992
... Guha among other anti-
colonial writers such as the Trinidadian author C.L.R.’James, the Syrian
intellectual George Antonius, and the Malaysian, historian S.H. Alatas.
None of them are in any sense “aaditional” or nativist intellectuals; they
operate fully within the knowledge-procedures...
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Public Culture (1993) 5 (2): 213–238.
Published: 01 May 1993
... . Boston: Beacon. Habermas , Jürgen . ( 1962 ) 1989. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society . Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Lyons , John . 1977 . “Structural Semantics II: Sense Relations,” Pages 270–335 in Semantics I . London...
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