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Journal Article
Public Culture: A Durkheimian Genealogy
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Public Culture (1988) 1 (1): 11–16.
Published: 01 January 1988
... applied to pre-modern organic structures where, in reality, things
did not work with such functional parsimony. Man lives not by functional
necessities alone. Other activities, ideas, and even institutions always broke
through: collective merriment and unofficial entertainment in solemn public...
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Zhang Dali's Dialogue : Conversation with a City
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Public Culture (2000) 12 (3): 749–768.
Published: 01 September 2000
... by a
growing unofficial art during the past twenty years.
The two most important events in the short history of this unofficial art took
place at the National Art Gallery. The first, the Star exhibition in 1979, marked...
Journal Article
Remembering Benjamin from South of the Pyrenees: The Two-Gauge Problem
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (3): 441–450.
Published: 01 September 2009
... other Europeans,
Benjamin had been driven away from several homes in the 1930s: from Berlin to
Paris, from Paris to southern France, and from Vichy France into Spain. Having
managed to hike along an unofficial route into Spain, only to encounter fresh dif-
ficulties with visas and other papers...
Journal Article
Machiavellian, Rabelaisian, Burealicratic?
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Public Culture (1992) 5 (1): 109–112.
Published: 01 January 1992
... was nothing new as an institution in Latin
America; it dated from the 1870s. But the unofficial, private-sector belly
politics of the 1970s represented power in a way that had little to do with the
tastes and aims of the military.
Perhaps it is futile to map distances and separations...
Journal Article
Virtual Museums of Forbidden Memories: Hu Jie's Documentary Films on the Cultural Revolution
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (3): 539–549.
Published: 01 September 2009
... the
past two decades. Although the government has consistently ignored their pleas
and circumscribed scholarly studies of the period, unofficial forms of memory
have proliferated in autobiographical accounts and marketplaces of “CultRev”
memorabilia collections. Maoist kitsch and propaganda, recycled...
Journal Article
The Suffering Body of the City
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Public Culture (2004) 16 (3): 453–477.
Published: 01 September 2004
... an
archetypal figure in the city of Johannesburg and how, in its search for care and
for sanctuary, it acts as a place of mediation and meeting between the public and
the private, the official and the unofficial, the here and the elsewhere...
Journal Article
The Archeology of Banality: The Soviet Home
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Public Culture (1994) 6 (2): 263–292.
Published: 01 May 1994
... and unofficial cultural enjoyment under the circumstances
of oppression. In this respect, Certeau's idea of everyday practice as a resistance
to written law, metadiscourse, and ideology seems particularly relevant. From
the ideal image of Soviet collective bliss, marred only by the ideologically-incor...
Journal Article
Spatiality and Urban Citizenship in Late Socialist China
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (2): 311–334.
Published: 01 May 2002
.... In Unofficial China II , edited by Perry Link, Richard Madsen, and Paul Pickowicz. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. Davis, Deborah S., Richard Kraus, Barry Naughton, and Elizabeth J. Perry, eds. 1995 . Urban spaces in contemporary China:The potential for autonomy and community in post-Mao China...
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Rewriting Taiwanese National History: The February 28 Incident as Spectacle
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Public Culture (1993) 5 (2): 281–296.
Published: 01 May 1993
... of official and unofficial
accounts of the Incident have been produced; at least two of them, for example,
have been commissioned by the president. President Lee himself was a victim
of the post-February 28 purge, but as a political leader...
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City Centers/Peripheral Transmissions: A Conversation with Lincoln Tobier
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Public Culture (2001) 13 (2): 233–242.
Published: 01 May 2001
... as participants in “cul-
ture” and as subjects of the state. I hope this interplay between the official
and the unofficial will be a way to read the ruptures that make up the sub-
text of Los Angeles.
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Degraded Images, Distorted Sounds: Nigerian Video and the Infrastructure of Piracy
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Public Culture (2004) 16 (2): 289–314.
Published: 01 May 2004
... disembedded from the official global economy (with the
single exception of its oil industry), it has become ever more integrated into a par-
allel, unofficial world economy that reorients Nigeria toward new metropoles
such as Dubai, Singapore, and Beirut (what AbdouMaliq Simone [2001] more
broadly calls...
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Pioneering Spirit: An Interview with Ellen Spiro
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (3): 468–475.
Published: 01 September 2002
..., Atomic Ed began collecting “nuclear waste”
—nonradioactive high-tech surplus—and serving as the self-appointed curator
of an unofficial, haphazard museum of the nuclear age he named The Black Hole.
The Black Hole documents a chilling history of gargantuan, high-tech govern-
ment wastefulness.
I...
Journal Article
The Diasporic Imaginary
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (2): 411–428.
Published: 01 May 2002
... of which demon-
strate how torture forms one basis for processes of the Sikh diasporic imaginary.
At the convoluted intersection of Indian military operations and Sikh insur-
gency, a set of official and unofficial policies has been implemented...
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In Passing: Some Notes on Urban Life
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 393–407.
Published: 01 September 2022
... peripheries, while subdividing and subletting their units to multiple subtenants for extra income. The subtenants divided and extended that process to others on the lookout for affordable units. Landlords, on the other hand, began making small unofficial additions to buildings to create new rental spaces...
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“The Taste Remains”: Consumption, (N)ostalgia, and the Production of East Germany
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (3): 545–556.
Published: 01 September 2002
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The unofficial, if not outright illegal, economy helped to contain the dynamics of “The Taste Remains”
stimulation and deprivation caused by the inability of central planning to deliver
the promised goods. Yet it also dispersed the market into all aspects of life. Valu-
able deals, connections...
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Intimacy and Alienation: Money and the Foreign in Biak
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Public Culture (2001) 13 (2): 299–324.
Published: 01 May 2001
...,
along with cheap clothing and housewares. Women from across the regency
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staked out their turf in unofficial spaces: in the aisles between shops and stalls Intimacy and
and on the pavement...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 331–342.
Published: 01 September 2023
... unofficial matters. Those who track and report on social policy and poverty issues, from civil society organizations to journalists and public intellectuals, have widely, and often uncritically, adopted the state agency's official measure as their own. This is a remarkable achievement considering the high...
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Nearly Utopian, Nearly Normal: Post-Fordist Affect in La Promesse and Rosetta
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Public Culture (2007) 19 (2): 273–301.
Published: 01 May 2007
... but evokes a scene of an entirely imaginable normalcy whose
simplicity enables her to rest unanxiously and, for the first and only time in the
film, to have a good night. It matters not that she is unofficial, off the books in all
the bureaucratic senses; even in an extremely informal economy...
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Video Crackdown, or The Sacrificial Pirate: Censorship and Cultural Consequences in Thailand
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Public Culture (1993) 5 (3): 515–531.
Published: 01 September 1993
... and available for distribution.
Since the only material thus available would come from one of the twenty-two
licenced producers, this meant that all the “unofficial” tapes would be removed.
As a result, up to fifteen hundred shops would be forced...
Journal Article
Animated Space
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 239–258.
Published: 01 May 2015
..., praying, lingering, passing through, watching, and listening; the amplifications of intersecting bodies, objects, matter, symbols, smells, and sounds; the rhythms set by callers, clocks, codes, timetables, technologies, and official and unofficial guardians of a public space; and the asynchrony...
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