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Basic terms in modern Khmer. Reproduced from Népote and Khing 1978 : 84.

in Portrait and Scan > Public Culture
Published: 01 September 2021
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What Is Just Translation?

Emily Apter
Public Culture (2021) 33 (1 (93)): 89–111.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8742208
Published: 01 January 2021
... is the larger aspiration. But given practical limitations, this means scaling down to select terms and cases that signal translational injustice under conditions of violence and legal disputation. These conditions include gender violence and sexual safety across languages, the untranslatability of terms like...
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Introduction: Biomedical Trans-Actions, Postgenomics, and Knowledge/Value

Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Sabina Leonelli
Public Culture (2013) 25 (3 (71)): 463–475.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2144607
Published: 01 September 2013
... are interested in locating translational research in a conjuncture that is marked, on the one hand, by a “postgenomic” moment in the life sciences and, on the other, by the capitalization of biomedicine. We argue that knowledge should be considered in terms of its mobility, rather than simply in terms of its...
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The Dotcom and the Digital: Time and Imagination in Kenya

Henrietta L. Moore, Constance Smith
Public Culture (2020) 32 (3 (92)): 513–538.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8358698
Published: 01 September 2020
...Henrietta L. Moore; Constance Smith In Kenya, the terms dotcom and digital have become popular descriptors for particular periods of change, as well as for modes of being. The two terms’ usage extends beyond reference to the age of the Internet or to encounters with new technologies. Rather...
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Ethnic Violence and the Prospects for Democracy in the Aftermath of the 2007 Kenyan Elections

Adam Ashforth
Public Culture (2009) 21 (1): 9–19.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2008-018
Published: 01 January 2009
... ethnonationalism poses a serious challenge to long-term stability. Copyright 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Ethnic Violence and the Prospects for Democracy in the Aftermath of the 2007 Kenyan Elections Adam Ashforth...
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The Risks of Preparedness: Mutant Bird Flu

Andrew Lakoff
Public Culture (2012) 24 (3 68): 457–464.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1630636
Published: 01 September 2012
..., it is better understood in terms of the fracture of a fragile alliance among virologists, public health experts, and biosecurity officials around the problem of pandemic preparedness. forum The Risks of Preparedness...
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Looking for Humanitarian Purpose: Endurance and the Value of Lives in a Palestinian Refugee Camp

Ilana Feldman
Public Culture (2015) 27 (3 (77)): 427–447.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2896171
Published: 01 September 2015
...Ilana Feldman This essay explores the vexing question of humanitarian purpose. It specifically considers the challenge of defining and pursuing this purpose in the context of long-term humanitarian interventions, when the clarity of saving lives from immediate danger recedes from its central place...
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Designing Urban Democracy: Mapping Scales of Urban Identity

Ricky Burdett
Public Culture (2013) 25 (2 70): 349–367.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2020638
Published: 01 March 2013
... and planners in terms of what we design and for whom and shifts the focus of analysis away from the rather blunt instruments of “top-down versus bottom-up” planning toward a more nuanced understanding of processes of urban “accretion and rupture.” 2013 DEMOCRACY AN D C...
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The Struggle for Kabul’s Libraries

Noah Arjomand
Public Culture (2014) 26 (3 (74)): 379–392.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2683693
Published: 01 September 2014
...Noah Arjomand In this essay, the libraries of Kabul serve as a microcosm of the international “capacity-building” project in Afghanistan. Visions of modern and digital library systems have run into the realities of donors interested in quick “success stories” more than programs that work long-term...
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Modernist Infrastructure and the Vital Systems Security of Water: Singapore’s Pluripotent Climate Futures

Jerome Whitington
Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 415–441.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3427511
Published: 01 May 2016
...Jerome Whitington Singapore climate change adaptation planning for water infrastructure is assessed against the concept of “vital security systems.” Cast against the historicity of water planning and postcolonial urbanism, water supply, coastal protection, and flood control are understood in terms...
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Extorted Life: Protection Rackets in Guatemala City

Anthony W. Fontes
Public Culture (2016) 28 (3 (80)): 593–616.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3511562
Published: 01 September 2016
... to collective anxieties over the terms of everyday survival and the difficulty of determining just who is in charge. This essay is an ethnography of extorted life, mapping the expanding geographies of extortion in postwar Guatemala to illuminate how this cold-blooded business organizes life at the most intimate...
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Property, Dispossession, and Citizenship in Turkey; Or, the History of the Gezi Uprising Starts in the Surp Hagop Armenian Cemetery

Ayşe Parla, Ceren Özgül
Public Culture (2016) 28 (3 (80)): 617–653.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3511574
Published: 01 September 2016
...Ayşe Parla; Ceren Özgül This article focuses on the state confiscation of the Surp Hagop Armenian cemetery as more than just another fact about the famous 2013 protests in Gezi Park in Istanbul. In addition to coming to terms with the limits of the Gezi uprising in relation to its claims...
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Environmentalism—Long Live the Politics of Fear

Alex Gourevitch
Public Culture (2010) 22 (3): 411–424.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2010-002
Published: 01 September 2010
... an equally overarching and commanding framework to replace the war on terror? Environmentalism is one of the few movements on the left that presents itself in the same totalizing political terms that the war on terror did on the right. Yet the politics of fear is a broad, deeply rooted political phenomenon...
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“Sensitive but Unclassified”: Secrecy and the Counterterrorist State

Joseph Masco
Public Culture (2010) 22 (3): 433–463.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2010-004
Published: 01 September 2010
...,” the essay theorizes a secrecy/threat matrix as a core project of the national security state. In doing so, it assesses the ideological linkages between “weapons of mass destruction” and the “secret” from the Cold War through the “war on terror.” The essay argues that the long-term effect of state secrecy...
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Provincializing France?

Achille Mbembe
Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 85–119.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2010-017
Published: 01 January 2011
... of “postcolonial studies” lies. But despite this logic of segmentation, one can assert that, at its core, the object of postcolonial critique is best described in terms of the interlacing of histories and the concatenation of distinct worlds . Given that slavery and especially colonization (but also migrations...
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Colonial Aphasia: Race and Disabled Histories in France

Ann Laura Stoler
Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 121–156.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2010-018
Published: 01 January 2011
... academic elite. The term “colonial aphasia” is invoked to supplant the notions of “amnesia” or “forgetting,” to focus rather on three features: an occlusion of knowledge, a difficulty generating a vocabulary that associates appropriate words and concepts with appropriate things, and a difficulty...
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Loss and Gain in Translation: Financial Epidemiology on the South Side of Chicago

Jennifer Karlin
Public Culture (2013) 25 (3 (71)): 523–550.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2144634
Published: 01 September 2013
... made two ontological conversions. First, it created new categories of people based not on classical groupings of disease but, rather, on their capacity to generate revenue. Author Jennifer Karlin terms this a process of “financial epidemiology.” Second, the UCMC reframed its financial distress...
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Retooling the Discourse of Objectivity: Epistemic Postmodernism as Shared Public Life

J. Aaron Simmons, Brandon Inabinet
Public Culture (2018) 30 (2): 221–243.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-4310862
Published: 01 May 2018
... in the humanities and sciences and their translators in the public sphere who use these terms and methods. Anticipating Thomas Kuhn, Polanyi suggests that rather than coming up with eternal answers in science, each generation is in charge of interpreting its own processes (ibid.: 16). But typically...
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A Divided Conscience: The Lost Convictions of Human Rights

Tobias Kelly
Public Culture (2018) 30 (3): 367–392.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-6912091
Published: 01 September 2018
... been discriminatory in terms of the types of person and forms of conviction that it seeks to protect. Part of the answer to the above questions is linked to a wider anxiety within liberal politics, including human rights, over all claims of conviction ( Toscano 2010 ). Claims of conscience can take...
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Radio, Citizenship, and the “Sound Standards” of a Newly Independent India

Isabel Huacuja Alonso
Public Culture (2019) 31 (1): 117–144.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7181862
Published: 01 January 2019
... the meaning of citizenship in auditory terms. Administrators and broadcasters at AIR, however, assumed that citizen-listeners would be docile. Radio listeners proved the opposite. They protested against AIR’s music broadcasts by writing to magazine and newspaper editorials and by tuning their dials to foreign...
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