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Public Culture (2010) 22 (3): 557–581.
Published: 01 September 2010
... to Jay Cook for his feedback and acute editorial skills. Turkish Women, West German Feminists, and the Gendered Discourse on Muslim Cultural Difference Rita Chin Since the 1950s, a massive influx...
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Public Culture (1993) 5 (3): 607–613.
Published: 01 September 1993
...Terri Castaneda Copyright © 1993 by The University of Chicago 1993 Beyond The Trocadero: Mickey’s Wild West Show and More Terri Castaneda About 30 kilometers outside of Paris, a small sign informs...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 453–472.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Janette Kim Abstract In 2021, the East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative (EB PREC) purchased Esther's Orbit Room—the last remaining venue of Oakland's West Coast blues scene—to build a haven for Black culture and livelihood. As a novel system of land ownership inspired by land trusts...
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Published: 01 September 2022
figure 8 First Ward of Oakland, published by Thompson and West, 1878. For permissions information, please see www.davidrumsey.com/maps6536.html . More
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Public Culture (2001) 13 (1): 39–64.
Published: 01 January 2001
... of the Nation (1989), At Home in the World:Cosmopolitanism Now (1997), and Music in Cuba (forthcoming). PC 13.1-04 Brennan 2/5/01 10:27 AM Page 39 The Cuts of Language: The East/West of North/South...
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Published: 01 January 2017
Figure 4 A map of the West Bank that indicates Areas A and B, which are under full or partial Palestinian control, combined in light gray. Area C and Israeli natural reserves, the majority of the West Bank, are combined in dark gray. This map is excerpted from UNOCHA-OPT 2011 . This map More
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Published: 01 May 2018
Figure 4 The West Bank archipelago (B’Tselem) More
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Public Culture (2024) 36 (1 (102)): 97–118.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Clovis Bergère; Marwan M. Kraidy Abstract The rise of Turkish television drama series—or dizi as they are known in Turkey—is one of the most notable media phenomena of the past decade in francophone West Africa, particularly Guinea. This is taking place at a time when Turkey has significantly...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (1): 25–32.
Published: 01 January 2010
... as well. How the West responds to this crisis, specifically to the democratic potential of nonsecular and nontheocratic forms of politics, is crucial. Copyright 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Parts of this essay draw on “Contested Secularisms in Turkey and Iran,” chap. 4 of my book...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (1 (69)): 65–84.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Seth Koven In this interview, Thomas Laqueur ranges widely across his childhood in 1940s Istanbul and 1950s small-town West Virginia to his “crisis” as a social historian that propelled him to cultural history and the study of sexuality and to his attempt to understand the cultural work of the dead...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (3 (80)): 447–456.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Robyn Creswell In “Embargoed Literature,” an essay written twenty-five years ago, Edward W. Said noted that “of all the major world literatures, Arabic remains relatively unknown and unread in the West.” How is it that one of the world’s great literary corpuses, as rich as those of classical Greek...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 323–341.
Published: 01 May 2019
... national self-determination efforts and a vibrant transnational politics of what was then termed “gay liberation,” this article contributes to a queering of Caribbean history and to a decentering of the West in global histories of sexuality. Copyright 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 activism...
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Public Culture (2008) 20 (3): 479–496.
Published: 01 September 2008
... development that aligns Qatar with the West. The contradictions ultimately prove too much for a typeface—and even for the nation—to sustain. Ultimately, what is branded is not a nation but a marketing-driven entity circulating amid flows of labor, capital, and image—a nation fetishized, a nation...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (3 (95)): 289–303.
Published: 01 September 2021
... the West Coast of the United States, thickening the air in the mountains, in the valleys, in the woods, in the cities, with particulate matter. And doctors found a malignant mass in the right lung of this author's mother. This essay uses the double meaning of aspiration (to inhale and to dream) to trace...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (2 (100)): 255–277.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of this single day with other representations of crowd violence in West Africa, this article explores an urban landscape that complicates the distinction between political and nonpolitical violence and between the presence and absence of the postcolonial state. [email protected] As I filmed the scene from my...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (1 (81)): 53–78.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Figure 4 A map of the West Bank that indicates Areas A and B, which are under full or partial Palestinian control, combined in light gray. Area C and Israeli natural reserves, the majority of the West Bank, are combined in dark gray. This map is excerpted from UNOCHA-OPT 2011 . This map...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (2): 199–220.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Figure 4 The West Bank archipelago (B’Tselem) ...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (3): 353–365.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Mahdi Sabbagh This essay traces the author’s family’s daily commute, from their East Jerusalem neighborhood to school and work in West Jerusalem. The path, charged with political and emotional weight, embodies the everyday challenges of the Palestinian community in Jerusalem. Each section...
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Published: 01 September 2021
figure 1 El Mansour theater, Dakar, Senegal. This is typical of the single-screen cinemas found all over West Africa until the end of the twentieth century. Photograph by Brandon County. More
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Published: 01 January 2017
Figure 1 A screenshot of a GIS map of Palestinian Authority data from 2008, depicting major roads and urban areas in the West Bank and Gaza. For a more detailed view, see figure 5 . Map by the author. Data appear courtesy of Global Map of Palestine © ISCGM/Palestinian National Authority More