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“Alleged Mass Graves <span class="search-highlight">Site</span> near Khalil Yagoup Garden, Kadugli, South Kordofa...

“Alleged Mass Graves Site near Khalil Yagoup Garden, Kadugli, South Kordofa...

in Surveillant Witnessing: Satellite Imagery and the Visual Politics of Human Rights > Public Culture
Published: 01 September 2014
Figure 6 “Alleged Mass Graves Site near Khalil Yagoup Garden, Kadugli, South Kordofan, Sudan.” From Satellite Sentinel Project 2011. Satellite images © DigitalGlobe, Inc., 2011 More
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Entrance to the Elad-run “Shiloah Pool” <span class="search-highlight">site</span>, decked with a security camera...

Entrance to the Elad-run “Shiloah Pool” site, decked with a security camera...

in Sumud: Repertoires of Resistance in Silwan > Public Culture
Published: 01 September 2022
figure 5 Entrance to the Elad-run “Shiloah Pool” site, decked with a security camera and a street sign put up by the Jerusalem municipality. Photograph courtesy of author. More
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The Cult and Culture of Classical Sites: The Parthenon Fiasco

Gerald Fitzgerald
Public Culture (1995) 8 (1): 177–185.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8-1-177
Published: 01 January 1995
...Gerald Fitzgerald Copyright © 1995 by The University of Chicago 1995 The Cult and Culture of Classical Sites: The Parthenon Fiasco Gerald Fitzgerald Restoration. The word...
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(Sites +) Demarcations.. Making Pictures in Lebanon

Jayce Salloum
Public Culture (1995) 8 (1): 2–9.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8-1-2
Published: 01 January 1995
...Jayce Salloum Copyright © 1995 by The University of Chicago 1995 (sites + ) demarcations.. making pictures in Lebanon Jayce Salloum The captionshexts accompanying each photograph...
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Making Citizens, Reassembling Devices: On Gender and the Development of Contemporary Public Sites of Repair in Northern California

Daniela K. Rosner
Public Culture (2014) 26 (1 (72)): 51–77.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2346250
Published: 01 January 2014
... the disassembly and reassembly of broken consumer products. By examining the development of public sites of facilitated repair during nine months of ethnographic fieldwork, the essay untangles the emerging cultural project of repair in relation to the distinct forms of civic duty it brings to life. 2014...
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“Poison&#x2F;Palate” map showing Silicon Valley Superfund <span class="search-highlight">sites</span> along with Bay A...

“Poison/Palate” map showing Silicon Valley Superfund sites along with Bay A...

in The Digital Cloud and the Micropolitics of Energy > Public Culture
Published: 01 May 2014
Figure 3 “Poison/Palate” map showing Silicon Valley Superfund sites along with Bay Area food and agriculture landmarks. Rebecca Solnit, Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas , 2010. Reprinted with permission of the University of California Press More
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Opaque Infrastructure: Black Markets as Architectures of Care

Huda Tayob
Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 375–384.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9937283
Published: 01 September 2022
...Huda Tayob Abstract Bellstat Junction and Sekko's Place are two markets in Cape Town established by migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. They are perhaps better understood as black markets existing within a lineage of global black urbanisms, past and future. These sites occupy a slippery...
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The Cartography of National Humiliation and the Emergence of China's Geobody

William A. Callahan
Public Culture (2009) 21 (1): 141–173.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2008-024
Published: 01 January 2009
...William A. Callahan Maps are an important site of the production and consumption of the national image. This essay examines modern Chinese maps to show how the very material borders between foreign and domestic space are the outgrowth of the symbolic workings of historical geography...
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Urban Design from Below: Immigration and the Spatial Practice of Urbanism

Jennifer Mack
Public Culture (2014) 26 (1 (72)): 153–185.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2346286
Published: 01 January 2014
... and function of a large swath of urban space, building by building. Critically, these structures were made through official site planning and building permits, even as they emerged out of the frictions between the prevailing logics of Swedish planning — emphasizing formal uniformity to achieve social equality...
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The Museum, the Colony, and the Planet: Territories of the Imperial Imagination

Arjun Appadurai
Public Culture (2021) 33 (1 (93)): 115–128.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8742232
Published: 01 January 2021
...Arjun Appadurai Abstract The primary argument of this essay is that the modern Western museum form is a critical site in which to understand the five centuries in which Europe dominated much of the rest of the world. In this imperial epoch, the world was shrunk to the museum and the museum...
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Bruno Snell, The Discovery of the Mind (1946; trans. 1953)

Brooke Holmes
Public Culture (2020) 32 (2 (91)): 363–374.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8090124
Published: 01 May 2020
.... In its final analysis, the article looks to Discovery as itself a perennially productive site for plotting the coordinates of Same and Other in relationship to the ancient Greeks, arguing that such questions are as much about enabling new attachments to the “classical” past as they are about conservative...
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Animated Space

Ash Amin
Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 239–258.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2841844
Published: 01 May 2015
...Ash Amin This article revisits the canon that imagines urban public space as a site of civic and political formation, based on active subjects. In contrast, the article explores the implications of thinking the urban landscape as sentient in its own right, as a hum of interacting humans...
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The Death Wish of Modernity and the Politics of Mimesis

Cindi Katz
Public Culture (2008) 20 (3): 551–560.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2008-013
Published: 01 September 2008
...Cindi Katz This commentary on Afflicted Powers focuses on RETORT's theorization of the spectacle. Through a discussion of mimetic versus metonymic politics and an examination of childhood as a site of spectacle, the domestic security state and the social reproduction of weak citizenship are brought...
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A More Perfect Union: Black Freedoms, White Houses

Jasmine Nichole Cobb
Public Culture (2016) 28 (1 (78)): 63–87.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3325016
Published: 01 January 2016
... presidency became a site for resolving the black freedom struggle. This essay traces the routes through which the US state, in the form of the presidency, appropriated black images to suppress autonomous black freedom struggles and promote less threatening racial narratives. It critiques the production...
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The Ellipsis of Touch: Gandhi's Unequals

Aishwary Kumar
Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 449–469.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1161994
Published: 01 May 2011
... Swaraj , the Mahatma would consecrate the untouchable as harijan . Irrespective of whether one judges this gesture as incidental or integral to Gandhi's politics, the imbuing of divinity to the untouchable had deeper moral consequences, foremost of which was to institute touching as the site of moral...
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“We're Mexican Too”: Publicity and Status at the International Line

Rihan Yeh
Public Culture (2009) 21 (3): 465–493.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2009-004
Published: 01 September 2009
... States. They also show how Tijuana's documented public reproduces itself across a range of communicative genres and sites, from a newspaper poll, to face-to-face dialogue, to the local baseball stadium, to the port of entry itself. Copyright 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Versions...
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Captivity: A Provocation

Kevin Lewis O’Neill, Jatin Dua
Public Culture (2018) 30 (1): 3–18.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-4189131
Published: 01 January 2018
...Kevin Lewis O’Neill; Jatin Dua Despite the number of people held at this very moment inside prisons, detention centers, black sites, reformatories, stockades, refugee camps, and even the hulls of ships, there has been surprisingly little self-consciousness about the analytical power of captivity...
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Tracing “Gay Liberation” through Postindependence Jamaica

Matthew Chin
Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 323–341.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7286849
Published: 01 May 2019
...Matthew Chin In this article, the author complicates the current positioning of Jamaica within international discourses as exceptionally homophobic by focusing on the island in the 1970s as a site through which to understand how the struggle for sexual agency among subjects of same sex desire...
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Carceral Oversight: Force-Feeding and Visuality at Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp

Michelle C. Velasquez-Potts
Public Culture (2019) 31 (3): 581–600.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7532727
Published: 01 September 2019
...Michelle C. Velasquez-Potts; Shamus Khan; Madiha Tahir Since 2002, prisoners at Guantánamo Bay detention camp have been force-fed as punishment for hunger striking, prompting the question of at what point the medical clinic becomes a site of punitive suffering. This essay examines force-feeding...
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Private Selves as Public Property: Black Women’s Self-Making in the Contemporary Moment

Jenn M. Jackson
Public Culture (2020) 32 (1): 107–131.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7816317
Published: 01 January 2020
...-formation and self-reclamation. The author also relies on the theoretical works of critical race, queer, and feminist scholars to frame how that resistance—whether in the form of sexual freedom, reproductive choice, or independence from traditional systems of labor—represents a critical site of possibility...
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