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Archipelagic Archives: Media Geology and the Deep Time of Japan's Settler Colonialism

Yuriko Furuhata
Public Culture (2021) 33 (3 (95)): 417–440.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9262905
Published: 01 September 2021
... of the archipelago as both a geological formation and a geopolitical territory. In tracing this formative era of Japan's resource extraction and settler colonialism, which precedes and informs the current rush to extract rare earth minerals necessary to maintain global digital infrastructures, this article aims...
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Elimination Politics: Punishment and Imprisonment in Palestine

Ilana Feldman
Public Culture (2019) 31 (3): 563–580.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7532655
Published: 01 September 2019
...Ilana Feldman; Shamus Khan; Madiha Tahir Focusing on punishment and imprisonment across three time periods, this essay explores the two-pronged attack on Palestinian politics that has characterized the settler-colonial project in Palestine over the past one hundred years. This double move entails...
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Sumud: Repertoires of Resistance in Silwan

Mahdi Sabbagh
Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 495–514.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9937396
Published: 01 September 2022
...Mahdi Sabbagh Abstract This essay aims to identify methods and strategies used to manipulate the Palestinian urban fabric. First, the essay will focus on Israeli settler-colonial activity through a study of the deployed tactics of de-development, destruction, and harassment. Second, it will focus...
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Israel’s Biospatial Politics: Territory, Demography, and Effective Control

Yinon Cohen, Neve Gordon
Public Culture (2018) 30 (2): 199–220.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-4310888
Published: 01 May 2018
... to consolidate the Judaization of the land. Indeed, Blueprint Negev, a Jewish National Fund flagship project, aims to attract 250,000 Jews to the Negev in the coming years. Copyright 2018 Duke University Press 2018 biospatial demography Israel/Palestine settler colonialism Not long after...
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Colonial Diffractions in Illiberal Times: Forecasts on the Future

Ann Laura Stoler
Public Culture (2021) 33 (1 (93)): 65–85.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8742184
Published: 01 January 2021
...: the United States is not a democracy but “the first modern settler state” (Mamdani 2015 : 608); Israel's “settler state” pursues a democratic apartheid with its Islamophobic racialized governance (Shihade 2015 ; Busbridge 2018 ). The targets may be whole colonies in an imperium, but more often...
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Making History Public: Indigenous Claims to Settler States

Miranda Johnson
Public Culture (2008) 20 (1): 97–117.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2007-018
Published: 01 January 2008
... in the three settler states of Australia, Canada, and New Zea- land. What happened between indigenous people and settler governments in the colonial pasts of these countries has been disputed in popular and scholarly his- tory books, fought out in media history wars, and laid bare in documentary...
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Sovereignty in a Minor Key

Thomas Blom Hansen
Public Culture (2021) 33 (1 (93)): 41–61.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8742160
Published: 01 January 2021
... of governance gradually replaced older forms of symbolic and violent domination. However, the major paradox in the history of modern sovereignty is that precisely as sovereign power was being systematized, centralized, and formalized into nation-states in Europe and the settler colonies in the Americas...
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Editor's Letter

Claudio Lomnitz
Public Culture (2006) 18 (3): 441–443.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2006-012
Published: 01 September 2006
..., particularly in settler colonies like Canada. And concern with authenticity and with the shades of a time before colo- nial contact is a staple of indigenous video, film, and literature. At the same time, Atanarjuat stands out as one of only...
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Mapping Grounds for Infrastructural Reparations in Jaraguá Peak

Laura Pappalardo
Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 409–417.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9937325
Published: 01 September 2022
... infrastructures. However, Guarani geographies, like hundreds of different Indigenous geographies whose lands overlap Brazilian infrastructural-settler occupation, are remade and reworked every day. Neither São Paulo's settler-colonial occupation nor Guarani geographies are static or permanent. Guarani...
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Decolonizing Diversity: The Transnational Politics of Minority Racial Difference

Anneeth Kaur Hundle
Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 289–322.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7286837
Published: 01 May 2019
... “the ongoing undoing of colonization”—historically by anticolonial, nationalist political leaders, activists, and intellectuals and contemporaneously by communities and intellectuals in settler colonial contexts. Theories and practices of decolonization are thus part of a much larger archive...
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In Passing: Some Notes on Urban Life

Prasad Khanolkar
Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 393–407.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9937311
Published: 01 September 2022
... that is not-yet (be)come (Weber 2008 : 97–100). In her (re)reading of settler-colonial plantations, Tiffany Lethabo King ( 2019 ) draws our attention to another such ability: Black fungibility. Black female bodies, King notes, were made to labor and kept out of the category of “labor” within the slave...
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Violence Work and the Police Order

Madiha Tahir
Public Culture (2019) 31 (3): 409–418.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7532643
Published: 01 September 2019
... death at the hands of the police within the United States, and the continuation of the American colonial-settler project evidenced by the assault on Dakota pipeline protesters at Standing Rock. These political engagements have produced a sophisticated and rich scholarly, activist, and public...
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The Politics of Nonracialism in South Africa

Ciraj Rassool
Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 343–371.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7286861
Published: 01 May 2019
... and slaves” ( Bank 1991: 216). By the 1700s, after the settler population grew swiftly, further expansion across the Hottentots Holland Mountains resulted in additional conquest and dispossession of the Khoesan. While this colonial expansion extended as far as the Fish River by 1770, it was halted...
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Race, Nationality, Mobility: A History of the Passport

Radhika Viyas Mongia
Public Culture (1999) 11 (3): 527–555.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-11-3-527
Published: 01 September 1999
... on the notion of a nation as a territorially and demo- graphically circumscribed entity, takes shape not prior to but within the context of “raced-migration.” By this I mean non-state-assisted, “free” migration to Europe or to white settler colonies...
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An “Eventful” History of Hind Swaraj : Gandhi between the Battle of Tsushima and the Union of South Africa

Jonathan Hyslop
Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 299–319.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1162048
Published: 01 May 2011
...- dians and South Africans have” (Gandhi 2006: 27). Paradoxically, Gandhi actu- ally uses the South African Union as a possible model for India, disrupting the discourse of a clear distinction between white-­settler-­ruled colonies and colonies...
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The Front, the Frontier, Police Anarchy, and the Solidarity of the Shaken

Allen Feldman
Public Culture (2022) 34 (1 (96)): 9–19.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9435413
Published: 01 January 2022
... and shaken worlds. Many of these political frontiers are devolved recursions of the archaic logic of settler-colonialism and slavocracy now underpinning new securocratic perimeters. Their overdetermination in a post – civil rights public sphere comprises an emerging fractal fascism that subtends America's...
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The New Media Studies: Editor's Letter

Arjun Appadurai, Erica Robles-Anderson
Public Culture (2021) 33 (3 (95)): 277–285.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9262807
Published: 01 September 2021
... two articles, first Yuriko Furuhata, then Eric Klinenberg and Melina Sherman push us to think about mediation and sociality at two scales. In “Archipelagic Archives: Media Geology and the Deep Time of Japan's Settler Colonialism,” Furuhata pushes us to think about media in deep time. Global markets...
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Settler Modernity and the Quest for an Indigenous Tradition

Elizabeth A. Povinelli
Public Culture (1999) 11 (1): 19–48.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-11-1-19
Published: 01 January 1999
... of the object “traditional indigenous law” across Settler these public, state, and commercial domains, this essay maps the political cunning Modernity and calculus of cultural recognition in a settler modernity. Almost ten years ago, Kaja Silverman noted the “theoretical truism that hegemonic colonialism...
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The End of Diversity

Rinaldo Walcott
Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 393–408.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7286885
Published: 01 May 2019
... in place all the institutions that flow from the initial and ongoing colonial condition and context. To claim that we can diversify, achieve equity, indigenize, or decolonize without taking on the social, cultural, political, and economic arrangements of whiteness is to enter the terrain of lies...
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Atanarjuat and the Ideological Work of Contemporary Indigenous Filmmaking

Monika Siebert
Public Culture (2006) 18 (3): 531–550.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2006-018
Published: 01 September 2006
... colonialism; (2) that of the Quebec cinema against the cultural colonialism ema- nating from Anglo-Canada; and (3) that of First Nations cinema against Canadian settler political and cultural dominance after the 1965 regionalization of the film...
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