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Digital Juneteenth: Territorializing the Freedom Colony Diaspora
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 419–436.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Andrea Roberts; Valentina Aduen; Jennifer Blanks; Schuyler Carter; Kendall Girault Abstract After Juneteenth, formerly enslaved African Americans in Texas founded hundreds of historic Black settlements known as freedom colonies. Later, freedom colonies’ populations dispersed, physical traces...
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Restless Reconciliation: Unsettling Victimhood and Perpetration
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Public Culture 11714193.
Published: 19 March 2025
...Yukiko Koga Abstract What does it mean to reckon with imperial violence through legal means decades after the formal end of violence? What do out-of- court settlements settle, and what does reconciliation look like on the ground? This essay ethnographically explores Chinese slave labor settlements...
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What Is Just Translation?
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (1 (93)): 89–111.
Published: 01 January 2021
... refugee and migrant , the fraught vocabulary of settlement and unsettlement (involving the translation of terms like indigeneity , occupation , detention zone , and camp ), shibboleth tests and the foreclosure of the right to residency (which amounts to the passporting of speech), and the multilingual...
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Israel’s Biospatial Politics: Territory, Demography, and Effective Control
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (2): 199–220.
Published: 01 May 2018
... of space. Critical social scientists have shown how from the “tower and stockade” method of settling Jews in Mandatory Palestine through the establishment of Jewish towns in the Galilee and the Negev to the construction of settlements and outposts in the West Bank, Zionist leaders have always understood...
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Water Wars in Mumbai
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (1 (69)): 115–141.
Published: 01 January 2013
... Press 2013 Note on Methods : The essay reports on a nine-month period of ethnographic fieldwork conducted in contrasting informal settlements in Mumbai and focuses in particular on Rafinagar, a predominantly Muslim settlement, in northeastern Mumbai. In-depth ethnographic research...
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Theses on Urbanization
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (1 (69)): 85–114.
Published: 01 January 2013
... Kong are devoting extensive
attention to questions of urban culture, design, and development (Seijdel 2009;
Kroeber 2012; Madden, forthcoming). The United Nations Human Settlement
Programme (UN- Habitat 1996) has famously declared...
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The Ruralization of the World
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (2 70): 233–248.
Published: 01 March 2013
... that have been subsumed under the categories of urban and rural
and think about the different ways they can be put together in forms of social
settlement. Only from this perspective can we examine the different ways they are
put together...
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Montage Urbanism: Essence, Fragment, Increment
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (2 70): 223–232.
Published: 01 March 2013
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While this second exhibition focused on design strategies exercised in the
informal settlements of extremely large cities in the global South, home to ever-
increasing numbers of the world’s poor, the first exhibition focused on rural and
agricultural contexts. Besides the move from...
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Stranger City
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (3): 353–365.
Published: 01 September 2018
.... It connected predominantly Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem to the city center, bringing not just a different language but new bodies. The light rail had two stations in Shu’fat and Beit Hanina; these stations were built because Israeli settlers were now commuting through the Palestinian neighborhood...
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Rural Voids
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (1): 61–84.
Published: 01 January 2018
... as such anymore, as proliferating trees have blurred the steps of the terraces. Qinghe used to be home to twenty-seven families: at the time of writing, there are only five households left. Settlements like Qinghe are commonly classified in China as “empty-heart villages” ( kongxincun ) or “empty-shell villages...
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Forget Locke? From Proprietor to Risk-Bearer in New Logics of Finance
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Public Culture (1999) 11 (2): 365–385.
Published: 01 May 1999
... clearance and settlement in the
United States has meant a tandem shift in the markets of the world. To describe
this watershed in its most schematic and legal-jargon-laden form, a discourse of
property rights and a practice of negotiability has in the late twentieth century
shifted to a discourse...
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Archipelagic Archives: Media Geology and the Deep Time of Japan's Settler Colonialism
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (3 (95)): 417–440.
Published: 01 September 2021
... settlement in this homeland of the Ainu people (which they call Ainu Moshir) took place. figure 2 A Geological Sketch Map of the Island of Yesso, Japan (1876). Courtesy of Geological Survey of Japan, CC BY-ND. FIGURE 2 A Geological Sketch Map of the Island of Yesso, Japan (1876). Courtesy...
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Iran, in Search of a Nonsecular and Nontheocratic Politics
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (1): 25–32.
Published: 01 January 2010
...) and the one adopted by clerical fundamentalists of the Islamic
Republican Party (IRP).5 The two camps not only disagreed over foreign policy
and the nature of the constitution but also disputed the terms of the Iranian public
settlement of the relationship of Islam to politics and the state. Two...
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Sumud: Repertoires of Resistance in Silwan
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 495–514.
Published: 01 September 2022
... yet again to eviction and demolition orders taped on their front doors. The Kaminitz Law does not directly lead to settlement activity, but with Palestinian residents gone, the work of Elad and Ateret Cohanim is made much easier. What do settler organizational bodies, international funding networks...
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Camping in the Third Space: Agency, Representation, and the Politics of Gaza Beach
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Public Culture (2006) 18 (2): 348–359.
Published: 01 May 2006
... five years due to the extensive system of settlements, roadblocks,
and closures imposed on Gaza by the Israeli military. Until the disengagement
of Israeli settlements from Gaza in August 2005, only two-thirds of the forty-
kilometer-long coastline were under Palestinian control. Most notably...
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The Urban Condition: A Challenge to Social Science
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (2 70): 201–208.
Published: 01 March 2013
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Public Culture has not been the case; for example, sociology in its formative years was urban,
taking cities of migration, mass settlement...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 389–413.
Published: 01 May 2016
..., the homeless, and others on the urban margins. But as security in urban Colombia has improved, people in the hillside settlements abutting quebradas have begun to see these “no-go zones” in a different light. Feeling safe to traverse them again—albeit always accompanied and only during daylight hours...
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Making History Public: Indigenous Claims to Settler States
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Public Culture (2008) 20 (1): 97–117.
Published: 01 January 2008
... written documents.
Differences between historical practices are not valued symmetrically by
courts and tribunals that investigate claims, or by state bureaucracies that negoti-
ate settlements, or by most historians trained in the academic disciplines. Oral
histories and traditions...
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Shanghai Modern: Reflections on Urban Culture in China in the 1930s
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Public Culture (1999) 11 (1): 75–107.
Published: 01 January 1999
... territories. The Chinese sections in the southern part of the city (a
walled city) and in the far north (Chapei district) were cut off by the foreign
concessions—the International Settlement (British and American) and the adja-
cent French Concession—which did not come to an end until 1943 during...
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Bulldozers in the City Economies of Excess and Repair
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Public Culture 11767244.
Published: 19 March 2025
... for the bulldozer. It moves about viscerally on the urban landscape, sometimes laying a road, sometimes clearing garbage. But increasingly, it is seen recklessly breaking down homes and settlements without prior warning. It has become the arbiter of justice. Bataille argues that inconsequential yet ludicrous levels...
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