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Public Culture (2019) 31 (3): 601–623.
Published: 01 September 2019
... theory transnational history “Who do you protect? Who do you serve?” You could hear this chant frequently at protests in recent years, directed at lines of grim-faced cops across the United States. Modifying a common police tagline, the chant raised the possibility that the aggressive police...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (1 (69)): 177–189.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Manu Goswami Partha Chatterjee discusses the terms and tasks of postcolonial political theory, his early encounter with game theory in the 1960s United States, and the lineages of empire as a political form. Works Cited Chatterjee Partha . 1984 . Bengal, 1920–1947: The land question...
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Public Culture (2012) 24 (3 68): 509–534.
Published: 01 September 2012
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space and ritual, the gardens made the use of state power in pursuit of Rome seem
natural and logical.
Configurations of Space and Figured Worlds of Power
Figured world theory (Holland et al. 1998) is particularly useful for explaining...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (1 (93)): 41–61.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Thomas Blom Hansen Abstract Theories of sovereignty in the twentieth century are generally based on a teleological “out-of-Europe” narrative where the modern, centralized nation-state form gradually spread across the world to be the foundation of the international order. In this article, the author...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 405–416.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Joy Rohde Abstract This article argues that the Cold War – era battle between information and uncertainty is a critical origin point for contemporary social theory – informed, data-intensive projects of the US national security state. Beginning in the 1950s, international relations experts...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (1 (81)): 165–190.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Kenny Cupers This article examines theories of human territoriality and their historical role in the demise of public housing in Western Europe and North America between the 1960s and the 1980s. The neglect and privatization of the public housing stock and the withdrawal of the state in direct...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (1 (69)): 85–114.
Published: 01 January 2013
... future for a distinct field of urban theory in a world in which urbanization has been generalized onto a planetary scale? This article reflects on this state of affairs and outlines a series of theses intended to reinvigorate the theoretical framework of urban studies in relation to emergent forms...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (3 (92)): 453–463.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Adam Kotsko Adam Kotsko analyzes the current political conjuncture in the United States through the lens of political theology, which he understands as fundamentally a study of systems of legitimacy. From this perspective, the neoliberal order is not merely an economic or political order but also...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 537–562.
Published: 01 September 2022
... to acquire its generative energy from such small forces. Urban theory and pedagogy have however seldom engaged with an understanding of these small forces or extended it for speculative or projective purposes. Spatial professionals often take up the burden of acting like and being the modern state, which has...
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Public Culture (1997) 10 (1): 135–167.
Published: 01 January 1997
.... Gottdiener , Mark . 1993 . “A Marx for our time: Henri Lefebvre and The Production of Space.” Sociological Theory 11 , no. 1 . 129 -134. Gottdiener , Mark . 1990 . “Crisis theory and state-financed capital: The new conjuncture in the USA.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research...
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The State of Emergency and the Revival of American Imperialism: Toward an Authoritarian Post-Fordism
Public Culture (2003) 15 (2): 323–346.
Published: 01 May 2003
...,” in Political Power and Social Theory (2002), and has recently completed a manuscript on precolonial ethnographic discourse and colonial state formation in German Samoa, southwest Africa, and Qingdao. Althusser, Louis. 1994 . Philosophie et marxisme:Entretiens avec Fernanda Navarro (1984–1987). In Sur...
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Public Culture (1993) 6 (1): vii–xi.
Published: 01 January 1993
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subject to struggles between knowledges, their producers and the sites of their
dissemination, we are necessarily concerned with the politics of theory. As a
cultural studies journal produced in the United States, but constituted...
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Public Culture (1993) 6 (1): 133–142.
Published: 01 January 1993
...Andrew Parker Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Literature Cited Howes , Marjorie , In this issue p. 83 -95. “Theory, Politics, and Caricature.” Kassabian , Anahid , and David Kazanjian. In press. “‘You Have to Want to Be an Armenian Here’: Nationalisms...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (3 (71)): 387–399.
Published: 01 September 2013
... will retain the influence of its provincial origin unless we bring it into view as a problem (see Chakrabarty 2000 ). Criticisms of United States – centric theories are familiar from debates on modernization theory. We will recall that the word modernization synthesized liberal postwar American values...
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Public Culture (1993) 6 (1): 31–39.
Published: 01 January 1993
...Talal Asad Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 A Comment on Aijaz Ahmad's
In Theory
Tala1 Asad
Aijaz Ahmad has written a forcefully argued, erudite Marxist polemic. I
found myself...
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Public Culture (1993) 5 (2): 363–373.
Published: 01 May 1993
..., England.
Research Interests: Africa and the Caribbean; nationalism and ethnicity ; past
and present social theory; ethnography and politics.
Hoffenberg, Peter. History Department, California State University, Chico,
CA 95929, U.S.A.
Research Interests: International cinema; World‘s Fairs...
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Public Culture (1989) 1 (2): 8–25.
Published: 01 May 1989
... in the United States and de-industrial-
ized Europe, theory is not placed on a pedestal carefully protected from the
supposedly banal reality of everyday life. In Japan, theory can exist not
within the insulated world of academics as it is the case in the United States
but within the much larger sphere...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (2 (82)): 363–384.
Published: 01 May 2017
... to material relations might reinvigorate political theory and our understanding of relations between society, the public, the economy, and the state. These approaches attempt to draw analysis away from a focus on political discourse in order to explore the complex interrelationships that exist between...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (2 (91)): 287–326.
Published: 01 May 2020
... choices would now preoccupy theorists of wave theory ~ social theory. Economists in the United States, in the wake of the Great Depression, went scouting for accounts of what had just happened. In 1938, accountant Ralph Nelson Elliott ([1938] 1980 ) wrote The Wave Principle . Elliott argued...
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Public Culture (1999) 11 (1): 175–208.
Published: 01 January 1999
... notes, there are exceptions within the tradition of liberal political
theory, for instance John Stuart Mill, who held that the boundaries of the state and of the nation should
in general coincide (35). For a somewhat different take, see Kymlicka, Multicultural Citizenship, ch. 4.
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