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Public Culture (2019) 31 (1): 45–67.
Published: 01 January 2019
...Alana Lentin The call for a parsing of the French context that accompanied the aftermath of the attacks on the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo mobilized what Barnor Hesse calls a “white analytics.” Such a partial vision of France as “exceptional” in matters of race denies the significance...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (3 (65)): 511–516.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Gabriella Coleman This article examines some of the attributes that mark geek and hacker politics as distinct from other domains of digitally based activism and offers an introductory framework to assess their political significance. Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 ...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (3 (83)): 539–562.
Published: 01 September 2017
... software company that turned the data platform into a full-blown for-profit service suggests a very different reading. Yet why did the project’s serving both corporate and anticorporate agendas not cause significant conflict among participants themselves? Which practices, forms of imagination, discourses...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (3): 409–418.
Published: 01 September 2019
..., then, is the relationship between these two violence workers, the soldier and the police officer? Should we characterize violence work, from Ferguson to Fallujah, as “policing”? And if so, how? What productive analytics, politics, and solidarities can such a framing underwrite? Equally important, what significant...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (3): 539–561.
Published: 01 September 2019
... significance. It demonstrates that extrajudicial forms of retribution exceed judicial forms and that more often than not the police are the punishment. In light of these well-documented events, the counsel’s statement that the use of force by the officers expressed their “desire for justice” may sound...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (3): 551–576.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Judith Farquhar Many mundane practices of city life in public in Beijing converge on public parks. Focusing on the uses, significance, and powers of the annual park pass, an inexpensive identity card that gives residents free access to the city's well-known and historic parks, I demonstrate some...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 January 2011
... and reasoning in the language of the educator, the statesman, the colonizer, the slaver, the exterminator. In the end, though, an epistemological rupture would entail more than differential languages; it requires that significance no longer be located in historical inscription. Copyright 2011 by Duke...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (2): 265–291.
Published: 01 May 2010
... as deeply traumatized, unable or unwilling to speak about their experiences. Taking to the airwaves facilitated a shift in the conditions by which survivors' testimonies could find public articulation. As such, the Eichmann trial provides a compelling case of the significance of media in transforming...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (1 (72)): 25–50.
Published: 01 January 2014
... against the backdrop of a social movement for media democracy and a wider social justice agenda. A significant undertaking in their practice was pedagogy, predicated on a notion of expertise as widely accessible, through which they sought to widen technical and political participation. Yet, while...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (2 (82)): 385–414.
Published: 01 May 2017
... is shrinking and control over its use has tightened considerably through zero-tolerance policing, growing surveillance, privatization, and gentrification. It argues that significant developments in digital media (e.g., the spread of mobile devices, photo sharing, blogging, and social networking sites) have...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (2): 329–350.
Published: 01 May 2018
... is not anomalous, but reflects a growing trend—from Pope Francis to Pussy Riot—that invokes niceness and other modes of positive sociality at a time of unprecedented cruelty. The current embrace of niceness raises broader questions about the significance of sociality in a neoliberal age that has been described...
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Public Culture (1990) 2 (2): 82–101.
Published: 01 May 1990
...John Hinkson Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Postmodernism and Structural Change
John Hinkson
POSTMODERNISM AND STRUCI'URAL CHANGE?
To take up the question of postmodem structural change requires that
some significant...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (2 (94)): 261–275.
Published: 01 May 2021
... categories. The essay ends with a caveat about the need for a reflexive approach to the context in which childhood memories are shared. The act of remembering produces mnemonic fragments of varied significance and importance for the person remembering and for potential interlocutors. Unlike...
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Public Culture (1997) 10 (1): 201–210.
Published: 01 January 1997
... mask), the emphasis is on religious
groups that have a living presence in Glasgow itself, or at least some historical
connection with Scotland (locally, there are significant Jewish, Muslim, Hindu,
and Sikh communities...
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Public Culture (2000) 12 (2): 351–374.
Published: 01 May 2000
... throughout planet Earth as well as into cyberspace in order to
explore the significance of its expansion for the organization and representation
of cultural differences.
Inspired by the speculative spirit of millennial thinking, I wish to suggest that
the current phase of neoliberal globalization...
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Public Culture (1992) 5 (1): 89–108.
Published: 01 January 1992
..., but different, truth
claims. Texts seem to float as transparent representations or sources of
truth, not as elements in a wider discourse of power involving other partici-
pants. Abstracted from their social circulation, their significance seems to lie
lacked inside themselves, ready to be unlocked...
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Public Culture (1994) 7 (1): 49–76.
Published: 01 January 1994
... there.
There is a significant moment in the old school re-mix of R. Kelly’s number
one hit, “Bump and Grind,” currently sitting on top of the black music charts on
both sides of the Atlantic. The singer recycles the famous hookline from the Five
Stairsteps’ 1969 hit “Ooh Child.” Sticking closely to their melody...
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Public Culture (1992) 5 (1): 113–122.
Published: 01 January 1992
... argue that Achille Mbembe’s “The Banality
of Power and the Aesthetics of Vulgarity in the Postcolony” offers an inno-
vative response to the question of the nature of the production and reproduc-
tion of power in the contemporary world.’ Its immediate significance for the
African postcolony...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 237–259.
Published: 01 May 2016
... to, a low food supply, presence of predatory fish and a toxic water habitat for the smelt” ( Manson and Middleton 2009) . 9 For the details of this history, see Alagona 2013. 8 Melinda Harm Benson (2012) points more generally to the significance of the Endangered Species Act...
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Public Culture (1989) 2 (1): 73–78.
Published: 01 January 1989
...
with the mother country - especially since the very fact of making the voy-
age in the first place often rendered them unacceptable to their kinsmen at
home.
Equally there are no really significant economic links between India and
her diaspora (though these links appear to be developing now). Diasporic...
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