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Might as Well Face It, We're Addicted to Gandhi

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Ritu Birla
Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 471–480.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1162003
Published: 01 May 2011
... and economy as global technologies and Gandhi's travels with them. At the same time, addiction named Gandhi's condemnation of modern civilization and its slavish relation to technology and futurity. This would be counteracted not with an easy cure but by recasting law and economy as tools and habits of self...
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The Birth of the Workshop: Technomorals, Peace Expertise, and the Care of the Self in the Middle East

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Nikolas Kosmatopoulos
Public Culture (2014) 26 (3 (74)): 529–558.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2683657
Published: 01 September 2014
..., the workshop constitutes maybe the absolute travel device: it can be transported and deployed everywhere without the need for translation into local vernaculars; it can exemplify the moral ambition for peace in the world backed with technical arrangements of space, time, and learning mostly imported from other...
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Genomic and Viral Sovereignty: Tethering the Materials of Global Biomedicine

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Amy Hinterberger, Natalie Porter
Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 361–386.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2841904
Published: 01 May 2015
... to constructed origin points as they travel through global research and commodity networks. References Adams Vincanne Novotny Thomas Leslie Hannah . 2008 . “ Global Health Diplomacy .” Medical Anthropology 27 , no. 2 : 315 – 23 . Appadurai Arjun . 2003 . “ Sovereignty without...
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“First Contact” and Other Israeli Fictions: Tourism, Globalization, and the Middle East Peace Process

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Rebecca L. Stein
Public Culture (2002) 14 (3): 515–544.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-14-3-515
Published: 01 September 2002
..., 21 . Burckhardt, John Lewis. 1829 . Travels in Arabia: Comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred . London: Henry Colburn. Cheah, Pheng, and Bruce Robbins, eds. 1998 . Cosmopolitics: Thinking and feeling beyond the nation . Minneapolis...
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A Funeral in North Lebanon: On Narratives of Other-Cultural Encounters

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Marc Manganaro
Public Culture (1996) 8 (3): 567–585.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8-3-567
Published: 01 September 1996
... my experiences in Lebanon over the years. A year and a half later, on research leave, I immersed myself in the reading of recent theorizing on travel, cultural contact, and the culture concept itself and found myself drifting back...
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Tradition and Difference in the Japanese Mass Media

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Marilyn Ivy
Public Culture (1988) 1 (1): 21–29.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1-1-21
Published: 01 January 1988
... to symbolize a generation's desire to escape to its origins. Unlike conventional Japanese tourism - in which groups travel together to view and photograph Public Culture Bulletin 21 Vd. 1, No. 1: Fall 1988 22 Public Culture Bulletin famous...
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Mobility Disability

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Celeste Langan
Public Culture (2001) 13 (3): 459–484.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-13-3-459
Published: 01 September 2001
...- qualified from travel on the new highways may soon discover that schools, stores, and other public facilities are more spread out and harder to reach, for such ampli- fied norms of mobility alter the spatial dimensions of people’s lives...
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Du Bois and the Production of the Racial Picturesque

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Sheila Lloyd
Public Culture (2005) 17 (2): 277–298.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-17-2-277
Published: 01 May 2005
... believes he is seeing, and this something more is the Veil itself.4 In effect, Du Bois is asking the reader to imagine himself as a picturesque traveler who, from within the Veil and on the other side of the color line, experi- ences the space of the nation in a way that involves interrogating many...
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Manaus: Television from the Borderless

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James Schwoch
Public Culture (1995) 7 (2): 455–464.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7-2-455
Published: 01 May 1995
... flight, almost a week on a riverboat, and a bus journey where time hardly seems relevant, Belem signals to the traveller the gateway into the Amazon and Manaus heralds the completion of arrival. In addition to being...
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Iran Gardi

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Roxanne Varzi
Public Culture (1999) 11 (3): 557–562.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-11-3-557
Published: 01 September 1999
...Roxanne Varzi Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Iran Gardi Roxanne Varzi ardesh, gardi, gashtan: to ramble, wander, rotate—to become, to change, to search, to travel, to circle aimlessly. Be-gardeem. Iran...
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The Ground Was Always in Play

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Madiha Tahir
Public Culture (2017) 29 (1 (81)): 5–16.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3644373
Published: 01 January 2017
.... A bitter pill: they endured the containment zone, but their experiences of it rendered the testimonies of their experiences unstable. As they were made mute, the forensic experts were called in to make objects speak. 2017 drone embodiment place space testimony Every story is a travel...
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A Consumer and a Gentleman

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Diane Barthel
Public Culture (1990) 2 (2): 129–134.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2-2-129
Published: 01 May 1990
... Money, Good Thinking, The Drinking Man, The Seasoned Cook, The Enlightened Traveler and The Right Stuff. While similar special segments in women's magazines offer advice on how to deal with the everyday (flat tires, small claims court), 'Man at His Best' tells readers how to put quality...
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Biden Hears a WHO: COVID-19, the World Health Organization, and the 2020 US Presidential Election

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Charis Thompson
Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 301–317.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-10742467
Published: 01 September 2023
... Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)” in which it documented the first 282 confirmed cases, centered in Wuhan, China, and including those spread by travel to other Chinese cities and to Korea, Japan, and Thailand (World Health Organization 2020c ). The report states that China first informed the WHO of the outbreak...
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Managing the Other of Nature: Sustainability, Spectacle, and Global Regimes of Capital in Ecotourism

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Joe Bandy
Public Culture (1996) 8 (3): 539–566.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8-3-539
Published: 01 September 1996
... , John . 1990 . The Tourist Gaze: Leisure and Travel in Contemporary Societies . Newbury Park: Sage Publications. Warner , Edward . 1989 . “Can Binoculars, Cameras and Daypacks Be the Rainforest's New Hope?” Environmental Action 21 ( 2 ): 18 -21. WCED (World Commission on Environment...
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Imagin(in)g Racial France: Take 3 Hervé Youmbi

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Dominique Malaquais
Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 157–166.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2010-019
Published: 01 January 2011
... is in two parts: an ephemeral maze made of stacked travel bags and a photo gallery of giant portraits. The portraits star artists from so-­called devel- oping countries — ­eighteen to date and growing, as the installation travels the world...
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Customs Review of Public Culture: The US and Africa in Melbourne

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John Hutnyk
Public Culture (1989) 2 (1): 130–135.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2-1-130
Published: 01 January 1989
... of Melbourne I hate travelling and explorers. Yet here I am proposing to tell the story of my expeditions Ammonia, Tibet and Africa fill the bookshops in the form of travelogues, accounts of exhibitions and collections of photographs, in all of which the desire to impress is so dominant...
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Imagin(in)g Racial France: Take 2 Mowoso

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Dominique Malaquais
Public Culture (2011) 23 (1): 47–54.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2010-015
Published: 01 January 2011
...- tion of satellites, missiles, and cell phones. Other works, melding performance, still and moving images, sound, and installation, deploy mind-­travel machines, life-size­ robots, and insectoid vessels constructed to plumb levels of transconti...
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Beyond The Trocadero: Mickey's Wild West Show and More

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Terri Castaneda
Public Culture (1993) 5 (3): 607–613.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-5-3-607
Published: 01 September 1993
... motorists traveling eastbound on the A4 that the approach to “Provins, Citk Mkdie‘vale”lies ahead. Within minutes, the French countryside yields a romantic sight, as castle turrets pierce the distant horizon on the left. This fleeting vision is immediately eclipsed by a closer and more...
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From the Atlas to the Alps: Chronicle of a Moroccan Migration

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Marco Jacquemet
Public Culture (1996) 8 (2): 377–388.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8-2-377
Published: 01 May 1996
... one hundred years but if you do not travel, you only have a half life. Beni Meskines proverb Bene Mellal. Two days after the end of Ramadan. Beni Mellal is on the road linking Marrakesh to Fez, in the foothills...
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“Emperor’s River”: Philipp Scholz Rittermann along China’s Grand Canal

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Philipp Scholz Rittermann, Carol McCusker
Public Culture (2012) 24 (3 68): 465–485.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1630645
Published: 01 September 2012
... Rittermann, with an Introduction by Carol McCusker In 2009 and 2010, photographer Philipp Scholz Ritter- mann traveled along China’s Grand Canal to capture the country’s vast and varied socioeconomic landscape. The canal, more than one thousand miles long, runs...
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